Awards & Honors | Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds

CEHW Professor Jason Wright has been named the recipient of the 2019 Drake Award by the SETI Institute. Read full story at Penn State...

Posted on Jul 10, 2018 in Awards & Honors | 0 comments

Rebekah Dawson, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, has been awarded the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty...

Posted on Feb 16, 2018 in Awards & Honors, News | 0 comments

Congratulations to CEHW Professor Rebekah Dawson who was recently honored with an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a prestigious award...

Posted on Mar 21, 2017 in Awards & Honors, News | 0 comments

First year graduate student Mariah MacDonald was selected as a 2017 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Mariah’s...

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Daniel Carrera who is joining CEHW as a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellow, thanks to NASA’s...

National Science Foundation funds supercomputer cluster at Penn State February 21, 2017 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State...

Arpita Roy was recently awarded the American Astronomical Society Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize and the Penn State Alumni...

“The 2017 American Astronomical Society Annie Jump Cannon Prize for outstanding research and promise for future research is awarded to Dr....

Congradulations to CEHW graduate student Sam Halverson who was recently selected for a prestigous NASA Sagan Fellowship. Sam has worked on...

Posted on Mar 4, 2016 in Awards & Honors | 0 comments

Evan Pugh University Professor Jim Kasting will receive the 2015 National Academy of Sciences Award in Early Earth and Life Sciences and...