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Hyerin Cho wins 2026 Eric R. Keto Prize for Graduate Students in Theoretical Astrophysics
Congratulations to Dr. Heryin Cho for winning the 2026 Eric R. Keto Prize for Graduate Students in Theoretical Astrophysics for her thesis "Black Hole Accretion and Feedback: From the Event Horizon to Galactic Scales" (Advisor: Ramesh Narayan). The Keto...
Galileo Project Receives Donation
The Galileo Project, led by Professor Avi Loeb, ITC director, was awarded $260,000 in support of its research mission: The goal of the Galileo Project is to bring the search for extraterrestrial technological signatures of Extraterrestrial Technological...
Ghosting the Galaxy: The Star That Left Without Saying Goodbye
ITC members Morgan MacLeod , Lecturer in Astronomy at Harvard, and Avi Loeb , Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard and Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC), contributed to the announcement in Science on February 12...
3–2! ITC Soccer Tradition Lives On
ITC Soccer Cup took place on Saturday, August 16, 2024, at Harvard's Cumnock Field. The match pitted faculty and post-docs against graduate students. For the first time in several years, the graduate students won! Thank you to everyone who participated in...
Meet "Betelbuddy"
After more than a century of anticipation, astronomers have now directly imaged what appears to be a long-hypothesized companion star to Betelgeuse , the red supergiant in Orion’s shoulder. The discovery comes on the heels of predictions made by members...
Jesse Han wins 2025 Eric R. Keto Prize for Graduate Students in Theoretical Astrophysics
Congratulations to Jiwon (Jesse) Han for winning the 2025 Eric R. Keto Prize for Graduate Students in Theoretical Astrophysics for thesis "The Galactic Halo in Stars and Shadows" (Advisor: Charlie Conroy). The Keto Prize, endowed with a generous donation...
ITC Soccer Match
ITC Soccer Cup took place on July 27, 2024 at Harvard's Jordan Field. The soccer match was faculty vs graduate students. The faculty won.
Paper published on "A possible direct exposure of the Earth to the cold dense interstellar medium 2–3 Myr ago"
Read the story in the Harvard Gazette, Harvard Magazine, and the scientific article in Nature magazine, p ublished by Merav Opher, Avi Loeb, and J. E. G. Peek.
ITC faculty make up for the top of the ScholarGPS ranks in Astronomy
Three of our faculty make up numbers 2, 6, and 14 in the Astronomy ranking worldwide of all times. A truly remarkable accomplishment for the ITC. To see the list, click here.
Michael Johnson recognized with the Breakthrough Foundation
Michael Johnson was just recognized with the Breakthrough Foundation “New Horizons in Physics” for their studies of photon rings – light trapped in orbit around black holes – and their work showing how they can be detected with future experiments https:/...
Anna Rosen receives Assistant Professor at UCSD!!
Former ITC Postdoc Anna Rosen was promoted to Assistant Professor of Astronomy at UCSD
