# News Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 32 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 32 results [### Selina Hokello Shares PRISE Summer Research at Final Poster Session ](/news/2025/08/selina-hokello-shares-prise-summer-research-final-poster-session) August 06, 2025 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)... ![Selina Hokello](/sites/g/files/omnuum6456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-08/IMG_0788.jpeg?itok=ekCwfGt8) [### Dr. Michelle Brann awarded 2025 Astrochemistry Outstanding Dissertation Award ](/news/2025/06/dr-michelle-brann-awarded-2025-astrochemistry-outstanding-dissertation-award) June 04, 2025 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... ![Michelle Brann Headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-04/MichelleBrannHeadshot.jpg?h=c016df08&itok=IkM2o6dk) [### Öberg Group Alumni Spotlight - Bergner - Oumuamua Was a Comet After All, a Study Suggests ](/news/%C3%B6berg-group-alumni-spotlight-bergner-oumuamua-was-comet-after-all-study-suggests) March 22, 2023 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... ![Öberg Group Alumni](/sites/g/files/omnuum6456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/22sci-oumuamua-02-gjlh-superjumbo.jpg?itok=0fD0TZ_s) [### Prof. Karin Öberg awarded Harnack Lecture ](/news/prof-karin-%C3%B6berg-awarded-harnack-lecture) October 31, 2022 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... description [### HARVARD PORTRAIT Karin Öberg ](/news/harvard-portrait-karin-%C3%B6berg) January 22, 2023 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... ![Karin Oberg headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/oberg/files/hm_jf23_art_page_12_image_0001.jpg?itok=ZqmLVwiU) [### A Circumplanetary Disk Candidate Spotted with ALMA ](/news/circumplanetary-disk-candidate-spotted-alma) August 10, 2022 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... ![This image of the AS 209 protoplanetary disk at a wavelength of 1.25 millimeters shows the thermal emission from the dust. The white line at the lower right is a 10-au scale bar and the white circle at the lower left is the beam size for the observations.](/sites/g/files/omnuum6456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/oberg/files/apjlaaf741f3_hr.jpg?itok=sJgIkhFE) [### The James Webb Space Telescope will be astrochemists’ newest and most powerful tool ](/news/james-webb-space-telescope-will-be-astrochemists%E2%80%99-newest-and-most-powerful-tool) November 07, 2021 Delayed for more than a decade, the world’s next flagship space telescope will launch in December, giving scientists an unprecedented view of chemistry around the galaxy JWST will provide scientists with new ways to study gas-phase molecules in... ![planetary disk](/sites/g/files/omnuum6456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/oberg/files/planetary_disk.jpg?itok=hnMOx0T_) [### Alumna Jane Huang Receives Robert J. Trumpler Award for ‘Iconic’ Thesis ](/news/alumna-jane-huang-receives-robert-j-trumpler-award-%E2%80%98iconic%E2%80%99-thesis) August 25, 2021 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... description [### Conditions That Triggered Life On Earth Could Exist More Widely Across The Milky Way Say Scientists In Landmark Study (Forbes) ](/news/conditions-triggered-life-earth-could-exist-more-widely-across-milky-way-say-scientists) September 16, 2021 The dust and gas where planets form have been mapped in extraordinary detail around five nearby young stars—and astronomers have found organic molecules that are implicated in the emergence of life on Earth. The findings suggest that the basic chemical... ![composite-image-of-alma-data-from-the-young-star-hd-163296-shows-hydrogen](/sites/g/files/omnuum6456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/oberg/files/this-composite-image-of-alma-data-from-the-young-star-hd-163296-shows-hydrogen_960x0.jpg?itok=HlAou6TH) [### Congratulations to Karin Öberg who led an international collaboration that published a series of 20 papers today! ](/news/congratulations-karin-%C3%B6berg-who-led-international-collaboration-published-series-20) September 15, 2021 description [### Planets Form in Organic Soups with Different Ingredients ](/news/planets-form-organic-soups-different-ingredients) September 15, 2021 Cambridge, MA -- Astronomers have mapped out the chemicals inside of planetary nurseries in extraordinary detail. The newly unveiled maps reveal the locations of dozens of molecules within five protoplanetary disks — regions of dust and gas where planets... ![In this artists conception, planets form from the gas and dust in the protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star.](/sites/g/files/omnuum6456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/oberg/files/cfa-025-planetary_disk_ill_2pane_lores_0.jpg?itok=pH-b_agM) [### A Conversation with Karin Öberg ](/news/conversation-karin-%C3%B6berg) July 15, 2021 The Harvard astrochemist discusses how reactions on icy dust grains shape solar systems. description - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")