The Eric R. Keto Prize for Graduate Students in Theoretical Astrophysics, endowed with a generous donation by ITC Senior Member Eric Keto, is awarded each year for the best thesis in theoretical astrophysics by a student at the CfA, as selected by the Senior Members of the ITC.

The 2016 winner is Zachary Slepian, for his thesis "Revitalizing the 3-Point Correlation Function Of Galaxies to Sharpen the BAO Standard Ruler"

Starting in the Fall, Zachary has accepted a 5-year Chamberlain Fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.