ann21022 — Announcement
Joan Najita Selected as 2021–2022 Radcliffe Fellow
12 May 2021: NOIRLab is proud to announce that Joan Najita has been named a 2021–2022 fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, joining an extraordinary group of artists, scientists, scholars, and practitioners who will learn from and inspire one another in a year of discovery and interdisciplinary exchange in Cambridge. As the 2021–2022 Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow, Najita will pursue an individual project in a community dedicated to exploration and inquiry. Her work will focus primarily on understanding the diversity and origins of planetary systems: why planetary systems surrounding nearby stars have architectures that differ from that of our own planetary system, the Solar System, and how to understand the new population of distant giant planets whose existence has been inferred from images of their formation environments. “The 2021–2022 fellowship cohort is characterized by intellectual reach, excellence in scholarship, and creativity,” said Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin, who is also the Daniel …