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The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) Physics Frontiers Center (PFC) has been awarded the prestigious Bruno Rossi Prize from the American Astronomical Society (AAS), as announced at 245th annual AAS conference last week in National Harbor, MD. The NANOGrav Collaboration shares the 2025 prize with their PFC co-directors, Drs. Maura McLaughlin (West Virginia University) and Xavier Siemens (Oregon State University).

The Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology presents the next WVUniverse talk for the month of February.

The WVU Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology announces the return of their Center seminar series, WVUniverse.

A West Virginia University researcher is paving the way for two-year community and technical college students to pursue astrophysics and astronomy at four-year institutions like WVU.  

The WVU Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology announces the return of their Center seminar series, WVUniverse.

News of pulsar scientific discovery extends across the globe.

A theoretical astrophysicist at  West Virginia University will play a key role in the development of a first-of-its-kind planned space probe to detect and accurately measure gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space and time.

West Virginia University researchers are part of a team that was recently awarded $17 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the renewal of the NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center (PFC).