dark clouds which are the vast, dusty regions
in space where the birth of stars occurs.Alyssa Goodman received a BS in physics from MIT. She then received her masters and doctorate in physics from Harvard after working with Phillip Myers, a star formation expert at the CfA.
She is an assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard. Her work, besides teaching, focuses on studying
dark clouds which are the vast, dusty regions
in space where the birth of stars occurs.
There is a quote that Ms. Goodman uses to describe her work in Astronomy: "People say to me, 'Oh, you must have to overcome such discrimination to get here. The truth is, nobody ever told me I wasn't supposed to be doing any of the things I was doing.'" Alyssa Goodman is one of only three women professors at Harvard.
