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Harvard March for Science

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March for Science April 22, Science Center Plaza Featuring remarks by President Drew Faust and Prof. Naomi Oreskes 9.30 – 11am: Rally on campus Speakers : Drew Faust, Naomi Oreskes , Melissa Franklin, Cassandra Extavour ( and more!) Music : Vocal...

Harvard Foundation to honor Goodman as Scientist of the Year

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Alyssa A. Goodman, Harvard professor of astronomy and research associate of the Smithsonian Institution, has been selected the 2015 Scientist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation. The award will be presented March 27. Read More: Harvard Gazette

With Astronomy Rewind, Citizen Scientists Bring Zombie Astrophotos Back to Life

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"A new citizen-science project will rescue tens of thousands of potentially valuable cosmic images that are mostly dead to science and bring them fully back to life. Called Astronomy Rewind, the effort, which launches today (22 March 2017), will take...

The Dark Lab: Special Issue of Science features EHT

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A Science magazine issued a special issue in March, 2015 which was dedicated to the 100 years anniversary of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a project in which members of the Astronomy department are involved...

'Hidden Figures' Of Astronomy At Harvard Take Center Stage In Play About Women 'Computers'

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Local public radio station WBUR recently broadcast a segment about the Watertown play Silent Sky about the Harvard College Observatory "computers:" Meredith Hughes (PhD 2010) is interviewed at the end of the segment about her great-grandmother, a former...

Astronomy grad Maryam Hussaini finalist for Harvard Three-Minute Thesis

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Congratulations to Astronomy grad Maryam Hussaini for making the finals of the Harvard Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) --a competition for master's and doctoral students to develop and showcase their research communication skills in a language appropriate to a...

Prof. Soderberg participated in the 2015 BBC Stargazing Live TV Show

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Prof. Soderberg participated in the 2015 BBC Stargazing Live television show at Jodrell Bank radio telescope ( http://www.jodrellbank.net/) during the total solar eclipse in the UK on March 20. Together with Professor Brian Cox and Dara O'Brianin, she...

Research Opportunities for Undergraduates

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Research @ the CfA CFA Research Opportunities for Undergraduates (pdf) - 2025-2026 list of research projects (updated August 2025) Faculty Research Areas Astronomy Related (most deadlines are between January and March) American Astronomical Society List...

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...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Lectures

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The Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Lecture honors one of the great scientists of the 20th century. With her Ph.D. thesis on the abundance of the elements in stars, Payne-Gaposchkin began to invent observational astrophysics. Over the next five decades, her...

Astrophysics Undergraduate Senior Thesis Presentations

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Astrophysics Undergraduate Senior Thesis Presentations Friday, March 30th in Phillips Auditorium https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~dcharbon/astronomy99_poster_2012.pdf Session I: The Dynamics of Exoplanets and Galaxies 1:00-1:20 Constraining Local Group Dark...

It’s Snack Time in the Cosmos

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"Black holes, the ultradense collapsed objects predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, are often depicted as voracious feeders whose extraordinary gravity acts like a one-way membrane: Everything is sucked in, even light, and virtually...