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Howard Georgie

Georgi elected AAAS fellow

April 19, 2024

Congratulations to Howard Georgi, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Harvard College Professor, on his election to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow for elucidating the role of symmetries in quantum field theory.

In addition to Prof. Georgi, seven other Harvard faculty are among the 502 AAAS 2023 class of fellows. AAAS Fellows are a distinguished cadre of scientists, engineers and innovators who have been recognized for their achievements across disciplines, from...

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Congratulations to Noah Toyonaga, a 2024 Harvard Horizon's Scholar!

April 12, 2024

Each year, the GSAS the Harvard Horizons Faculty Fellows pick eight Ph.D. students to participate in Harvard Horizons, an initiative to recognize and celebrate the work of promising scholars. The selected students get the opportunity to present their work at the symposium and prepare through personalized coaching sessions with faculty mentors and the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.

Among the...

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L. Mahadevan Awarded Oxford's Weldon Memorial Prize

April 9, 2024

Prof. L. Mahadevan has been elected to receive the 2024 Weldon Memorial Prize.

The prize was founded in memory of W.R.F. Weldon, an English evolutionary biologist and a founder of biometry. It is awarded every year, without regard to nationality or membership of any university, to the person who in the judgment of the Electors has in recent years published the most noteworthy contribution to biometric science. The prizewinner receives a medal and is invited to give a lecture followed by a dinner in college that enables them to meet with the Weldon Electors and other...

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2024 Lee Historical Lecture in Physics: Frank Wilczek

April 9, 2024

FRANK WILCZEK
Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT
Chief Scientist, T. D. Lee Institute and Wilczek Quantum Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Distinguished Professor, Arizona State University
Professor of Physics, Stockholm University
2004 Nobel Prize in Physics

Tuesday, April 9, 4:30pm

"My Life With QCD: A Fifty Year Love Affair That’s...

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Argüelles-Delgado Receives Cottrell Scholar Award

February 6, 2024

Research Corporation for Science Advancement, America's first foundation dedicated wholly to science, has named  Prof. Carlos Argüelles-Delgado a recipient of its 2024 Cottrell Scholar Award for their "[search] for new physics with galactic neutrinos." 

The Cottrell Scholar program honors and helps to develop outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for the...

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Weitz Receives the Franklin Institute's Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science

January 31, 2024

Congratulations to Prof. David Weitz upon receipt of the Franklin Institute's Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, which recognizes contributions to fundamental or application-oriented science with broad impact and should clearly indicate the scientific significance—innovative, technical, and/or conceptual—and the societal/economic impact of the nominee’s work. The citaiton for Prof. Weitz reads "For transforming our fundamental understanding of squishy materials ranging from gels, polymers, colloids, and...

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Prof. Vafa Wins Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award

December 12, 2023

Congratulations to Prof. Cumrun Vafa on receiving a Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This award is conferred in recognition of the award winner’s entire academic record to date.

The winners are invited to carry out research projects of their own choice in cooperation with specialist colleagues in Germany. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation sponsors distinguished international scientists and scholars irrespectively of their academic discipline or nationality and maintains an international network of academic cooperation and...

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