Lauren Fabiszak
Harvard Staff Writer
The Harvard theoretical physicist and neuroscientist has won the Dirac Medal and Prize, one of the highest honors in physics.
Deep in the woods of Petersham, Mass., the Harvard Forest Summer Research Program in Ecology is cultivating a renewable resource — future generations of scientists.
Forget about the ancient Greek myth of Icarus. For the last 10 years, Jenna Samra, Ph.D. ’18, and her colleagues have been pushing technology to fly closer to the hottest part of the sun. Samra, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics, an institution jointly run by Harvard and the Smithsonian, leads a scientific quest to study the solar corona.