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Chung Named McKnight Scholar
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected Prof. SueYeon Chung as a 2026 McKnight Scholar. The McKnight Scholar Awards are granted to young scientists who are in the early stages of establishing their own independent laboratories and...
Prof. SueYeon Chung headshot

2026 Hertz Fellowships
Congratulatons to our students—past, present, and future—on being awarded Hertz Foundation Fellowhips in the applied sciences, engineering and mathematics: Andrew Chu '26, Elizabeth Kozlov '25, Miller MacDonald '26, Nikhil Seshadri '26, and Eric Zhu...
Headshots of 2026 Hertz Fellows: Andrew Chu , Elizabeth Kozlov, Miller MacDonald, Nikhil Seshadri,  and Eric Zhu

Congratulations to Winners of 2026 Harvard Student Prizes!
Physics department is inviting all its members to celebrate the achievements of our undergraduate and graduate students with a festive awards presentation on May 4, 2026, at 3:30pm in Jefferson 450 ! Jack T. Sanderson Memorial Prize in Physics Awarded to...
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Kang-Kuen Ni receives Brown Investigator Award
Kang-Kuen Ni, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, has been named to the 2026 class of Brown Investigators, a cohort of midcareer faculty recognized for bold, curiosity-driven research in physics and chemistry. Each...
Kang-Kuen Ni with two students in her lab.

Lee Historical Lectures in Physics: Giorgio Parisi, Apr 21, 2026
Giorgio Parisi Emeritus Professor, La Sapienza University of Roma 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics "Spin Glasses, Complexity and All That" Tuesday, April 21, 2026 @4:30PM Jefferson Lab, Room 250 17 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Abstract: I will recall the...
Prof. Georgio Parisi writing on a glass wall

Chung Awarded Aramont Fellowship  for Emerging Science Research
Congratulations to Prof. SueYeon Chung, a recipient of the Aramont Fellowship Fund for Emerging Science Research for “The Physics of Intelligence: Linking Neural Representations and AI Safety and Alignment.” AI systems increasingly influence decisions...
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Khalaf, Mitrano Receives 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships
Congratulations to Professors Eslam Khalaf and Matteo Mitrano, who are among the 126 early-career researchers selected to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2026! Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships honor exceptional researchers at US and...
Headshots of Profs. Eslam Khalaf and Matteo Mitrano

Yao Awarded 2025 OYRA Ardentec Prize
Prof. Norman Yao has been awarded Outstanding Young Researcher Award (otherwise known as OYRA Ardentec Prize) by the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers “for [his] seminal experimental and theoretical contributions at the...
Prof. Norman Yao headshot in front of blackboard

Argüelles-Delgado Wins RCSA Bridge Award
Congratulations to Prof. Carlos Argüelles-Delgado for winning an award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) for his research project Probing the Nature of Mass with Neutrino Telescopes. RCSA has awarded $800,000 to 11 Cottrell...
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Fall 2025 Harvard Physics Newsletter
Fall 2025 Physics Newsletter includes article on physics department's new faculty hires by Steve Nadis, "A Sudden Infusion of Youth, Energy, and Talent," a retrospective of P.W. Bridgman by Paul Horowitz, "Percy W. Bridgman, Pioneer of High-Pressure...
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