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WVU engineering professors to utilize Green Bank telescope in K-12 teacher research experience
Margaret Mattson |
When a group of teachers from four West Virginia counties get asked what they did on their summer vacation in fall 2017, they will have an out-of-this-world answer, thanks to a grant received by a research team from West Virginia University.
WVU astrophysicist part of team that detects gravitational waves from second pair of colliding black holes
Margaret Mattson |
For the second time in history, a team of astrophysicists – including Sean McWilliams at West Virginia University, has observed gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of spacetime.
WVU astrophysicists part of gravitational wave search that provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers
Margaret Mattson |
O n the heels of their participation in the historic research that resulted in the detection of gravitational waves, West Virginia Univers ity astrophysicists continue to plow new ground and build upon their work.
Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein's prediction
Margaret Mattson |
WASHINGTON D.C./MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity and opens an unprecedented new window onto the cosmos.
NSF funds $14.5 million physics center, WVU professor named co-director
Sarah McLaughlin |
The National Science Foundation has awarded the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves $14.5 million over a five-year period to create and operate a Physics Frontiers Center aimed at using radio timing observations of pulsars with the Green Bank Telescope and Arecibo Observatory to detect and study low-frequency gravitational waves.
WVU will use $9.65 million NSF grant to build science and engineering infrastructure that will benefit West Virginia
Sarah McLaughlin |
West Virginia University will use nearly half of a $20 million National Science Foundation grant to research areas important to the state and nation – a clean water supply and a deeper understanding of our universe – while also preparing the state’s workforce for high-tech jobs and promoting science education among the state’s students.
Student Pulsar Search Program Expands Nationwide Thanks to NSF Grant to WVU and NRAO
Sarah McLaughlin |
West Virginia University (WVU) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) together received a nearly $2 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to expand the reach and impact of the highly successful Pulsar Search Collaboratory (PSC) student science education initiative. Approximately $700,000 of the grant will go to the NRAO; WVU will receive approximately $1.3 million.