Early Life and Education
Baliunas was born and grew up in New York City and its suburbs, she attended public schools in the New York City area and high school in New Jersey. She received a B.S. in astrophysics from Villanova University in 1974, and an A.M. and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Harvard University in 1975 and 1980. Her doctorial thesis was titled, Optical and ultraviolet studies of stellar chromospheres of Lambda Andromedae and other late-type stars.
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