Highlights of Prof. Stassun’s outreach activities
Oct. 10, 2023—http://astro.phy.vanderbilt.edu/~stassuk/outreach.htm
Stephen Taylor got a new NSF grant to build the most sophisticated Galaxy catalog ever for multimessenger host follow-up of supermassive black hole binaries found by NANOGrav.
Sep. 27, 2023—Stephen Taylor got a new NSF grant to build the most sophisticated Galaxy catalog ever for multimessenger host follow-up of supermassive black hole binaries found by NANOGrav. Prof. Taylor describes the project: — With the recent breakthrough evidence for a background of nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves, we now turn to the source. Where does it come from?...
Prof. Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli ran a pilot program for a science outreach during the summer of 2023 with 26 metro Nashville high school students
Sep. 26, 2023—Prof. Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli ran a pilot program for a science outreach during the summer of 2023 with 26 metro Nashville high school students as part of the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt (SSMV) program. This program titled ‘Let’s Smash the Proton’ was hugely exciting for the students to participate in research that will...
Multi-Messenger Astronomy program led by Prof. Kelly Holley-Bockelmann awarded a $1.6M NSF grant
Sep. 25, 2023—The Multi-Messenger Astronomy program led by Prof. Kelly Holley-Bockelmann has been awarded a $1.6M NSF grant in the PAARE program (Partnerships in Astronomy and Astrophysics Research and Education). This grant will support an innovative postdoc-to-faculty program in multimessenger astronomy that features professional development, wellness mentoring, and a focus on training in inclusive best practices. The...
Two Vanderbilt nuclear physicists win early-career grants from U.S. Department of Energy
Sep. 25, 2023—Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli and Jean-François Paquet, both assistant professors in the department of physics and astronomy, are among 93 scientists selected from across the nation to receive significant funding for research as part of the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program. The awards aim to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by supporting exceptional researchers at the...
Alex Lupsasca wins New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation
Sep. 25, 2023—Assistant Professor of Physics and Mathematics Alex Lupsasca has won a 2024 New Horizons in Physics Prize for his theoretical work on the interpretation of black hole images and his proposal of a new method for using super-powered telescopes to look closely at black holes and their invisible fingerprints called photon rings. The New Horizons...
Wikswo receives $1 million NSF award
Oct. 5, 2022—John Wikswo, founder and director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education and Gordon A. Cain University Professor, is the principal investigator of a $1 million award from the National Science Foundation. The object is to build a pathbreaking “robot scientist”—a fully automated microfluidic system for parallel, independent, long-duration, machine-guided experiments. The...
Researchers receive $3 million NSF award
Oct. 5, 2022—Vanderbilt University researchers from the departments of physics and astronomy, math, electrical engineering, and history have received a $3 million National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Award to establish a graduate certificate program in the emerging field of multimessenger astronomy (MMA). Over five years, the program will train and educate 300 physics, astronomy, math, and engineering...
Holley-Bockelmann receives 2022 mentor award
Oct. 5, 2022—Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Stevenson Professor of Physics, has received the 2022 Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The award is for individuals who have mentored significant numbers of underrepresented students (e.g., women, minorities, and persons with disabilities) who are working toward doctorates in STEM. Holley-Bockelmann is being recognized for her leadership...
Vanderbilt researchers part of collaboration that manipulates atomic vibrations and nanomaterials
Oct. 5, 2022—This breakthrough could make it possible to develop customized functionalities to improve on and build new technologies. Electron beams in powerful microscopes have probed materials and nanostructures with atomic-scale resolution, imaged the atomic arrangements and, in combination with theory, unveiled electronic and magnetic properties. Recent developments in microscopy help make it possible to get direct...