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Formed in 1973, the CFA combines the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The center employs around 900 scientists in half a dozen locations around the country...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Report: Astronomy Profs Treated Poorly | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

However, the placid exterior of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA)--which also occupies a larger structure across the street--hides an epicenter of the debate over the University's treatment of its junior faculty members, according to a recent report and several faculty members...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Report: Astronomy Profs Treated Poorly | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

Ever since she was appointed an assistant professor (the lowest rung in the professorial ladder of assistant, associate, and full professorships) in 1980, Geller's tenure has been a point of contention at the CFA...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Report: Astronomy Profs Treated Poorly | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

Although she currently serves as the director of the telescope data center at CFA--a position overseen by the Smithsonian, rather than Harvard University--but does not hold the title of the directorship...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Report: Astronomy Profs Treated Poorly | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA), in conjunction with three other research institutions, have discovered an entire solar system orbiting the star Upsilon Andromedae...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, | Title: Harvard Scientists Find Solar System | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

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