Jane Huang Receives the 2020 Robert L. Brown Outstanding Dissertation Award and the 2020 IAU PhD Prize

May 26, 2021
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The National Radio Astronomy Observatoryexternal link(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,external linkfor her Harvard Dissertation, Rings and Spirals in Protoplanetary Disks: The ALMA View of Planet Formation.

https://aas.org/posts/news/2021/03/jane-huang-receives-2020-robert-l-brown-outstanding-dissertation-awardexternal link

The IAU PhD Prize recognises the outstanding scientific achievements of astronomy PhD students around the world. Each of the IAU’s nine divisions awards a prize to the candidate it feels has carried out the most remarkable work in the previous year, and the nine divisions together also agree on jointly awarding an extra prize, the PhD at-large Prize. This time 104 PhD theses, defended between 16 December 2019 and 15 December 2020, were submitted. 

https://www.iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann21034/external link

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