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Professor Ashley Villar awarded Aramont Fellowship

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Ashley Villar has been awarded an Aramont Fellowship to develop a "foundation model" (a large machine learning model) for understanding transient phenomena in the era of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. A description of the Fellowship and projects can be...

Fireman Fellowship Award to Philip Cowperthwaite

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At the annual Awards Ceremony, Rita Fireman and Astronomy Chair Avi Loeb are seen presenting the Fireman Fellowship Award to Philip Cowperthwaite for this year's best dissertation in the field of Astrophysics at Harvard. This award is named in honor of...

Karin Öberg awarded the prestigious Packard fellowship

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Karin Öberg just won the prestigious Packard fellowship. Her citation reads: "Öberg is an astrochemist. She combines ice experiments and radio astronomy to explore the chemistry present during planet formation. This chemistry regulates the compositions...

Twelve students and postdocs from the Astronomy department were awarded Einstein/Hubble/Sagan fellowships in 2012

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Twelve students and postdocs from the Astronomy department were awarded Einstein/Hubble/Sagan fellowships in 2012: Laura Blecha, Smadar Naoz, Joey Neilsen and Meng Su were awarded an Einstein fellowship; Kaitlin Kratter, Matt McQuinn (former student)...

Graduating student Ellen Price receives a 51Pegasi b post-doctoral Fellowship from the Heising-Simons Foundation.

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The Heising-Simons Foundation announced today a new cohort of 51 Pegasi b Fellows. On March 31, the Foundation announced its fifth cohort of eight fellows. This group will include Ellen Price, who is receiving her Ph.D. from Harvard. In her respective...

Alyssa Goodman selected for 2016–2017 fellowship class at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

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Alyssa Goodman has been selected to join the 50 other women and men, who are the 2016–2017 fellowship class at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, where the acceptance rate to the fellowship program this year was just under 4...

Fireman Fellowships awarded to two graduating students: Wen-fai Fong and Nathan Sanders

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At the department's 2014 Awards Ceremony, Rita Fireman awarded two graduating students with the Fireman Fellowship, given each year in honor of her husband. This year's awards were given to Wen-fai Fong and Nathan Sanders. The picture features the two...

Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship awarded to Avi Loeb

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Prof. Avi Loeb has been awarded the 2013 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at the University of Melbourne in Australia. This award is given to academics of international distinction in a field of interest to the University of Melbourne. Fellows...

Vedant Chandra (GSAS, ’26) wins the 2025 Fireman Fellowship

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The Astronomy Department is pleased to award the 2025 Fireman Fellowship to Vedant Chandra (GSAS, ’26), who was honored for the thesis "Mapping the Uncharted Horizons of the Milky Way." Advisor: Charlie Conroy The gift of Rita S. Fireman to the Harvard...

Astronomy alumna Sara Seager wins prestigious MacArthur Fellowship

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Each year, the MacArthur Foundation names several dozen of the nation's most creative and influential people as MacArthur Fellows which provides funds for two years which the recipients can use toward any purpose. The Class of 2013 awardees includes...

Adam Boesky and Caleb Painter (both Harvard, 2025) recognized as the 2025 Hertz Fellowship Finalists!

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The Department of Astronomy is pleased to recognize two undergraduate astrophysics concentrators--Adam Boesky and Caleb Painter (both Harvard, 2025)-- as 2025 Hertz Fellowship Finalists! Read more here. Selected from more than 1,000 applicants and...

Jennifer Bergner is awarded the Edward J. Fireman Fellowship for best graduate dissertation in her work as an astrochemist observer and experimentalist.

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Picture to the right is Jennifer with Rita Fireman, wife of Edward Fireman during the Honors Ceremony on May 29, 2019. Pictured below are members of the Fireman family who annually attend the awarding of this fellowship, along with Irwin Shapiro (left)...