Awards

Steward Observatory's Marcia Rieke Named Big 12 Faculty of the Year

Marcia Rieke receives Big 12 award

Chris Impey Wins 2025 Cosmos Prize for "Worlds Without End"

Chris Impey

Recent grad Eason Wang wins highly prestigious fellowship from NSF

Eason Wang

Steward Observatory grad student Lucy Steffes wins multiple awards for her poster on prestellar cores

Steward Observatory graduate student Lucy Steffes

Kaitlin Kratter and Josh Eisner, 2022 and 2020 winners of Blitzer Award, deliver joint lecture on protoplanets and protoplanetary disks - watch their talk here!

Josh Eisner and Kaitlin Kratter

“In search of Earth’s siblings,” Sebastiaan Haffert wins prestigious New Horizons Prize

The New Horizons prize honors Sebastiaan Haffert’s work in adaptive optics—much of which happened during his time at Steward Observatory.

Steward Observatory's Peter Behroozi ranked among most cited researchers in the world

Peter Behroozi

Highest Presidential Honor Bestowed on Steward Observatory Astronomers, Highlighting the Department’s Preeminence in Theory, Data and Computation

Gurtina Besla and Kaitlin Kratter

Tucson doctor wins national award for his second act as amateur astronomer

Richard Donnerstein

Isabella Olin: Winner of AAS Chambliss Student Poster Competition Honorable Mention

Isabella Olin