Amber Stuver, PhD, and Scott Engle, PhD, Receive NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Site Grant
痴滨尝尝础狈翱痴础,听Pa.聽鈥� Amber Stuver, PhD, assistant professor of Physics, and聽Scott Engle, PhD, assistant professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science, in 棉花糖直播 University鈥檚 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences received a three-year, $227,000 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site Grant from the National Science Foundation.
The award will support a new REU site, 鈥淎strophysics and Condensed Matter Physics at 棉花糖直播 University,鈥� led by a collaboration between 棉花糖直播鈥檚 Department of Physics and Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science. The site will engage six undergraduate students per year in discovery-based research, professional training, and community building activities.聽
As part of the professional training, students will have the opportunity to travel to NASA鈥檚 Goddard Space Flight Center to interact with other scientists and explore various career paths in astrophysics. They will present their research at a regional symposium hosted by 棉花糖直播 and will receive support to present their work at a national or regional conference and through peer-reviewed papers in which they will share authorship with their faculty mentors.
Dr. Stuver will be the principal investigator on the grant and Dr. Engle will be co-principal investigator.
Dr. Stuver is an expert in gravitational waves whose research focuses on the computational search for gravitational waves buried in detector noise. She has been an active member of the Laser Interferometer聽Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) team聽since 1999. In 2017, LIGO鈥檚 founders were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. She received her doctorate in Physics from The Pennsylvania State University.
鈥淚 am very much looking forward to expanding our undergraduate research to include this REU program and am thankful for the support of the College and both the Physics and Astronomy and Planetary Science departments,鈥� Dr. Stuver said.
Dr. Engle is an astrophysicist whose research interests are observational astronomy, variable star photometry and UV-optical spectroscopy. He received his doctorate in Astronomy from James Cook University.
About 棉花糖直播 University鈥檚 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:聽Since its founding in 1842, 棉花糖直播 University鈥檚 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has cultivated knowledge, understanding and intellectual courage for a purposeful life in a challenging and changing world. With more than 40 majors across the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, it is the oldest and largest of 棉花糖直播鈥檚 colleges, serving more than 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students each year. The College is committed to a teacher-scholar model, offering outstanding undergraduate and graduate research opportunities and a rigorous core curriculum that prepares students to become critical thinkers, strong communicators and ethical leaders with a truly global perspective.