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Selina Hokello Shares PRISE Summer Research at Final Poster Session
As an undergraduate researcher in Harvard’s prestigious PRISE program, Selina Hokello delivered her final poster presentation today, showcasing the culmination of her summer research experience. The Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE)...
Dr. Michelle Brann awarded 2025 Astrochemistry Outstanding Dissertation Award
The 2025 ACS Astrochemistry Subdivision Outstanding Dissertation Award was conferred upon Dr. Michelle Brann, currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the group of Prof. Karin Öberg at Harvard University. Her dissertation, entitled "Condensed Phase...
Öberg Group Alumni Spotlight - Bergner - Oumuamua Was a Comet After All, a Study Suggests
New York Times ...two astronomers have found what they call “a surprisingly simple explanation” for Oumuamua’s behavior: The object was a comet after all, propelled by minuscule amounts of hydrogen gas spurting from an icy core. “We show that this...
Prof. Karin Öberg awarded Harnack Lecture
Prof. Karin Öberg awarded Harnack Lecture. The Harnack Lecture is an honour lecture by the Max Planck Society in commemoration of the German science reformer Adolf von Harnack. The international networking of science was an important element of Adolf von...
Alumna Jane Huang Receives Robert J. Trumpler Award for ‘Iconic’ Thesis
Former Center for Astrophysics researcher Jane Huang is the recipient of the 2021 Robert J. Trumpler Award. The award is presented annually by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) to a recent PhD recipient whose research is considered unusually...
Jane Huang Receives the 2020 Robert L. Brown Outstanding Dissertation Award and the 2020 IAU PhD Prize
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) / Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) is pleased to announce that Dr. Jane Huang is the winner of the 2020 Robert L. Brown Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, for her Harvard Dissertation, Rings and...
Alessandra Canta receives 2021 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is pleased to announce the 2021 recipients of the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize. The three winners were selected from among 74 Harvard College seniors awarded the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize by the Faculty of Arts...
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Selina Hokello Shares PRISE Summer Research at Final Poster Session
As an undergraduate researcher in Harvard’s prestigious PRISE program, Selina Hokello delivered her final poster presentation today, showcasing the culmination of her summer research experience. The Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE)...
Dr. Michelle Brann awarded 2025 Astrochemistry Outstanding Dissertation Award
The 2025 ACS Astrochemistry Subdivision Outstanding Dissertation Award was conferred upon Dr. Michelle Brann, currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the group of Prof. Karin Öberg at Harvard University. Her dissertation, entitled "Condensed Phase...
Öberg Group Alumni Spotlight - Bergner - Oumuamua Was a Comet After All, a Study Suggests
New York Times ...two astronomers have found what they call “a surprisingly simple explanation” for Oumuamua’s behavior: The object was a comet after all, propelled by minuscule amounts of hydrogen gas spurting from an icy core. “We show that this...
HARVARD PORTRAIT Karin Öberg
GROWING UP IN Lutheran Sweden, Karin Öberg had no inkling that she would one day become an astrochemist, the first to observe a complex organic molecule in the freezing cloud of gas and dust surrounding a young star—or that she would convert to...
Prof. Karin Öberg awarded Harnack Lecture
Prof. Karin Öberg awarded Harnack Lecture. The Harnack Lecture is an honour lecture by the Max Planck Society in commemoration of the German science reformer Adolf von Harnack. The international networking of science was an important element of Adolf von...
A Circumplanetary Disk Candidate Spotted with ALMA
Astronomers may have found a gaseous disk around a planet orbiting the young star AS 209. This is one of just four circumplanetary disk candidates discovered so far, and these observations enable the first mass estimate of a circumplanetary disk’s gas...
