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WVU’s McLaughlin named to Nature’s “Ones to watch” list

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Congratulations to Maura McLaughlin, the Eberly Distinguished Professor of the WVU Department of Physics and Astronomy, for being named one of Nature's "Ones to watch" in 2019. McLaughlin and her colleagues monitor neutron stars, and could soon detect gravitational waves created by supermassive black holes for the first time.

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Nihan Pol receives Postdoctoral Fellowship

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NihanPol, a graduate student in Physics and Astronomy,was awarded the Vanderbilt Initiative in Data-Intensive Astrophysics (VIDA) prize postdoctoral fellowship in multi-messenger astrophysics at Vanderbilt University.VIDA research is focused on the burgeoning arena of astro-informatics, which confronts the challenges of Big Data analytics, often employs simulation-based methods and machine learning, and lives at the interface of astrophysics, data science, and statistics. At Vanderbilt, he will work with Dr. Stephen Taylor beginning August of 2020.

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