Honoree Name:
Laura Newburgh
Role at Wright Lab:
Faculty
Research Area:
Astrophysics and Cosmology
Year Awarded:
2018
Name of award:
NSF Faculty Early Career Award
Laura Newburgh (Assistant Professor of Physics) has been awarded a prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Award. Her proposal, entitled “Towards Dark Energy – A High-precision Drone-based Calibrator for Next-Generation 21cm Cosmology Experiments” will fund her to develop and use radio telescopes to map out the expansion history of the Universe.
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