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Congratulations to Dr. Natalia Lewandowska who is now a Visiting Assistant Professor of Astronomy in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Haverford College, near Philadelphia, PA.

Dr. Dustin Madison is a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology working with Professor Maura McLaughlin. In his newest publication in the journal Physical Review Letters, he discusses Gravitational Wave memory and how it still shapes the way we see space.

Originally from Altoona, PA, Michael completed his bachelor’s degree in physics at West Virginia University. He just completed a gap year in training as a post-baccalaureate research assistant before moving into his PhD program this fall.

Congratulations to Maura McLaughlin, the Eberly Distinguished Professor of the WVU Department of Physics and Astronomy, for being named one of Nature's "Ones to watch" in 2019. McLaughlin and her colleagues monitor neutron stars, and could soon detect gravitational waves created by supermassive black holes for the first time.

An important breakthrough in how we can understand dead star collisions and the expansion of the universe has been made by an international team that includes researchers with the Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology at West Virginia University.