2026 Distinguished Alumni Award
RIT Graduate School
Grant Tremblay
Ph.D. '11
Grant Tremblay (RIT PhD, Astrophysical Sciences & Technology, 2011) is an Astrophysicist and head of External Relations at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and Vice President of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Previously, he was a NASA Einstein Fellow at Yale University, a Fellow at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) near Munich, and an Astronomer at ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile. He has authored more than 100 publications in astronomical journals and three books for the general public, including The Sky and Other Ghosts: Our Fading Age of Discovery, coming soon from Princeton Press. He frequently appears on documentary series from the Science and Discovery Channel, including How the Universe Works, as well as in recent and forthcoming projects with the BBC and PBS NOVA.
2026 Distinguished Alumni Award
RIT Graduate School
Grant Tremblay
Ph.D. '11
Grant Tremblay (RIT PhD, Astrophysical Sciences & Technology, 2011) is an Astrophysicist and head of External Relations at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and Vice President of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Previously, he was a NASA Einstein Fellow at Yale University, a Fellow at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) near Munich, and an Astronomer at ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile. He has authored more than 100 publications in astronomical journals and three books for the general public, including The Sky and Other Ghosts: Our Fading Age of Discovery, coming soon from Princeton Press. He frequently appears on documentary series from the Science and Discovery Channel, including How the Universe Works, as well as in recent and forthcoming projects with the BBC and PBS NOVA.