Adam Furman was awarded a NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) internship for the Summer of 2021.

Even as two powerful dark matter detectors are set to switch on later this year, scientists including Brown professor Richard Gaitskell are already planning a new experiment aimed at mysterious dark matter particles. Read more here.

Adam Tropper ’21 was awarded a prestigious fellowship through the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based masters and doctoral degrees in the United States.

Physics Merit Fellowship: Jorge Mago [advisor: Anastasia Volovich] and Wing Yan (Jess) Wong [advisor: Meenakshi Narain]
Galkin Fellowship: Yiou Zhang [advisor: Gang Xiao] and Sze Ning (Hazel) Mak [advisor: S. James Gates Jr.]

With a $1 million grant from the Simons Foundation, Brown physicist Stephon Alexander will look to expand Einstein’s theory of gravity to explain cosmic mysteries like dark matter and black hole singularities. Read more here.