The 2025 Klumpke-Roberts Award has been given to Kimberly Arcand of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory for her contributions to the public understanding and appreciation of astronomy as a popular science communicator and a leading expert in astronomy communications and data visualization.
The award is given to an individual or individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the public understanding and appreciation of astronomy. Arcand is honored for over 26 years of bringing astrophysics discoveries to broad and diverse audiences through innovative astronomy communication methodologies.
Arcand’s extraordinary contribution as the visualization scientist and emerging technology lead for the Chandra X-ray Center has, as one nominator professed, “played an essential role in bringing discoveries like Chandra’s to the world in a way that is both accessible and inspiring.”
Read more at the Chandra X-Ray Center. (Link this text to: https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/25_releases/press_091025.html)
Media Contact:
Christine Buckley
Communications Officer
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian