Congrats to NSF Graduate Research Fellows

CEHW graduate students had an exceptional showing in this year’s National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship program.

• CEHW graduate student Christian Robles was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Christian’s research focuses on the development of astrophotonic techniques for precision measurement, and exoplanet instrumentation, including high-precision radial velocities.
• CEHW graduate student Elizabeth Gonzalez was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Elizabeth’s research focuses on exoplanet observations, including probing the effects of granulation on radial velocity measurements using NEID observations during solar eclipse.
• CEHW graduate student Lucas Brefka was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Honorable Mention. Lucas’s research focuses on formation and evolution of exoplanet systems.
• CEHW graduate student Evan Fitzmaurice was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Honorable Mention. Evan’s research focuses on the characterization of exoplanets and brown dwarfs using radial velocity observations with HPF and NEID and astrometry from GAIA.
• CEHW founding director Alexander Wolszczan honored by Penn State with the title of Atherton Professor on his retirement. The University created the Atherton Professorship to recognize the continuing high level of scholarly or creative activity Evan Pugh University Professors may pursue after their retirement.

Congratulations to all!