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McLaughlin awarded NSF grant to lead development of infrastructure for a new radio telescope under construction in Nevada

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Maura McLaughlin, Eberly Distinguished Professor and Chair in the West Virginia University Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. The grant, Collaborative Research: Building the Next-Generation NANOGrav Pulsar Timing Array with the DSA-2000 was awarded to McLaughlin and team as part of the Windows on the Universe program at NSF.  The dedicated $313,000 will support multi-faceted research and training programs across the country, involving a new radio telescope array called the Deep Synoptic Array, or DSA-2000.

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