Andrea Lin awarded Downsbrough Graduate Fellowship

Each year, the Downsbrough Graduate Fellowship recognizes the accomplishments of outstanding graduate students in our department. This year Andrea Lin was one of two Downsbrough Graduate Fellowship recipients, in recognition of her key contributions to the fabrication, testing, and calibration of the high-precision NEID fiber system, her role in the commissioning of the NEID instrument, her part in the development and deployment of the NEID Solar Telescope, and her ongoing role in enabling precision photometry with the engineered diffusers. Thanks to her critical contributions, NEID has emerged as one of the most precise Radial Velocity spectrometers in the US. The immediate public access of data from the NEID Solar Telescope is enabling a number of important investigations into stellar activity, and it is helping to build an inclusive community of exoplanet scientists, heliophysicists, and stellar spectroscopists to overcome the challenges of stellar activity in the quest for the discovery of terrestrial worlds around other stars.