News/Events

The WVU Planetarium will be hosting two shows in celebration of the 50th anniversary ofEarth Dayon April 22, 2020.

Join groundbreaking scientist Jocelyn Bell Burnell for a presentation on her accidental discovery of pulsars, or magnetized rotating neutron stars that emit pulsing radio waves, while a student at the University ofCambridge. Bell Burnell will also share stories of when other researchers nearly discovered pulsars. In recognition of the importance of her work,she received a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2018. Bell Burnell used the entirety of the $3 million prize to establish a scholarship for underrepresented students in physics research. This event is presented by the Department of Physics and Astronomyand the Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology.

The Conference for Undergraduate Women in Astronomy (CUWiA) will be held at West Virginia University on November 1-3, 2019.

West Virginia University researchers have helped discover the most massive neutron star to date, a breakthrough uncovered through the Green Bank Telescope in Pocahontas County.

Eight students from  West Virginia University’s  Eberly College of Arts and Sciences have been awarded undergraduate fellowships from the  NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Please join us Thursday, September 28th at 4pm for the next GWAC Center meeting.

Dr. Maura McLaughlin is an astrophysicist from West Virginia University (WVU) who is on the leading edge of internationally-renowned gravitational wave research. In this talk, titled Waves of the Future: How Gravitational Waves are Transforming Research and Education in West Virginia, McLaughlin will discuss WVU’s involvement in the recent discovery proving evidence of ripples in space-time one hundred years after Albert Einstein first predicted their existence.