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The IAU PhD Prize recognises 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. Division...

Nature Astronomy volume 3, page959(2019) Luca Maltagliati We still have very limited knowledge of the elemental composition of giant planets. Our best example is currently Jupiter, thanks to Galileo’s end-of-mission plunge into its atmosphere...

The University Core (along with Catholic Studies , the Department of Religion , and Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology ) proudly sponsored a talk last Thursday afternoon, October 24, by Dr. Karin Oberg, Astronomy Professor at Harvard...

Jenny Bergner has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis 'Tracing Chemical Complexity During Star and Planet Formation'. She will start a Hubble Sagan post doctoral fellowship at University of Chicago the fall of 2019.

DSHARP is the first Large Program observed at the ALMA telescope and it is revolutionizing our view of the planet forming disks around young stars where exoplanetary systems are currently in the making. Press release is here . The survey is presented in...

AAS awards Karin the Newton Lacy Pierce Price

Check out the Nature paper reporting the results, the accompanying News and Views , the NRAO press release , and some media coverage from the Washington Post , Discovery and på svenska . (Image credit Bill Saxton /NSF /AUI /NRAO)

Watch Karin discuss ALMA at the Smithsonian Channel .