Money for Astronomy!

UTB-TSC has received a $1.05 million grant from the National Science Foundations. This money will fund 10 scholarships in physics (including high-level astronomy). Students will be involved in intensive research programs during their time at college, utilizing a radio telescope to identify radio pulsars (stars that have reached a burnt-out state) and then using these radio pulsars to either prove or disprove the existence of gravitational waves. Frederick Jenet, Andy Miller, and Adrienne Zermeno (all associated with the teaching of physics/astronomy) have been paramount in organizing this program, and hope that UTB-TSC will become a place where students can get as good an education in physics as they can anywhere in the country.