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The NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium is offering fellowships for undergraduate students who desire a career in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) related programs and are interested in working on a research project under the supervision of a faculty member who will act as their research advisor. These undergraduate affiliate fellowships are awarded by the applicant’s college or university. The amount awarded varies from each institution. Applicants for these fellowships must be full-time undergraduate students of US citizenship. Female and minority students are strongly encouraged to apply. Please contact your institution to inquire about the amount of these fellowships.

The West Virginia Science Public Outreach Team is a statewide program operated out of the Green Bank Observatory that recruits and trains undergraduate ambassadors to bring presentations about current West Virginia science to K-12 classrooms (and get PAID).

Malcolm LaRose, a graduate of WVU Astronomy and Physics,will be stepping into a new level research in graduate school at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in the School of Physics and Astronomy in Rochester, New York.

Often the mentee becomes the mentor while continuing research through the Pulsar Search Collaboratory (PSC). William Jarvis, currently a sophomore undergraduate student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, speaks on his experience through his various roles in the PSC.

WVU Department of Physics and Astronomy Postdoctoral Researcher, Dustin "Dusty" Madison, was named one of 13 Cottrell Fellows across the nation by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA). The award, which is also co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), of up to $75,000 for salary, benefits, and research-related expenses includes an expectation for continued pedagogical training for the postdocs in supportive environments.

Jacob Cardinal Tremblay, a senior Physics and Astronomy major at WVU, was chosen for a fellowship with the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) at the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. During his internship, he worked closely with Dr. Cherry Ng and Dr. James McKee on dispersion measure variations in NANOGrav pulsars using data from CHIME (Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment).

“When I first heard about the Pulsar Search Collaboratory, (PSC) I knew that I had found something incredibly special. I was able to analyze raw data that no one had ever seen before. Searching for such fascinating stars confirmed that I want to be an astrophysicist. I found my passion.” -Katherine

Caitlin Witt, a graduate student in Physics and Astronomy at WVU, recently had her research published in The Astrophysical Journal.