Morgantown, WV — Members of the Mountaineer community gathered on Saturday for the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Awards Ceremony, where students are honored for outstanding achievements during the recent academic year. Among the individuals recognized for their exceptional contributions were Jackson Taylor, a second-year graduate student in Physics and Astronomy, and Ayden Cook, an undergraduate senior in Physics and Astronomy.
Morgantown, WV — Professor Duncan Lorimer FRS, an astrophysicist renowned for his groundbreaking work in pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs), is set to embark on a journey to India. As announced by the Royal Society, Lorimer has been awarded a Yusuf Hamied Visiting Fellowship. He will bring a wealth of knowledge about his pioneering work in the field of transient radio phenomena to several key scientific institutions across the country.
Katy Goodrich, an assistant professor in the West Virginia
University Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, was honored with a Big
12 Conference Faculty of the Year Award for her groundbreaking work in
plasma and space physics.
The
Small Town Universe screening event will be hosted on March 7, 2025 in Ming
Hsieh Hall, Room G20 (720 College Avenue, Morgantown, WV, 26505). A reception will
take place at 6:30 PM, with the screening at 7:00 PM and the panel discussion
at 8:30 PM.
The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) Physics Frontiers Center (PFC) has been awarded the prestigious Bruno Rossi Prize from the American Astronomical Society (AAS), as announced at 245th annual AAS conference last week in National Harbor, MD. The NANOGrav Collaboration shares the 2025 prize with their PFC co-directors, Drs. Maura McLaughlin (West Virginia University) and Xavier Siemens (Oregon State University).
The West Virginia University Department of Physics and Astronomy offers $1500 scholarships
to new students who have been directly admitted to the Eberly College of Arts and
Sciences as an undergraduate physics major.
The Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Series returns for Spring '25 with an incredible
lineup of esteemed guests. A pre-colloquium reception is hosted at 2:00pm in White
Hall 111.
Details about each colloquium, including abstracts and biographies, will be published to the WVU Calendar
as information becomes available. A general listing of colloquium dates is also available there to add all events to your calendar as a placeholder.
Connecting community to accessible science is the pillar of outreach. Our exceptional
graduate students are leading an array of impactful educational community outreach
opportunities to connect communities to physics.
“Regan is also redefining our knowledge of plasma physics at Mars. She has
conducted expert analysis of spacecraft observations from Mars Express and
the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission, and classified
over 4400 magnetic boundaries ... In particular, Regan has newly discovered
that the boundary dips towards the surface over areas of Mars’ crustal magnetic
fields, due to plasma confinement in these regions.”
