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Undergraduate Research Awards: Excellence in Information Literacy 2023 winners

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The John Sr. and Kimlyn Patishnock Undergraduate Research Award: Excellence in Information Literacy is awarded to University Park students who achieved outstanding undergraduate student research at the Undergraduate Research Exhibition. From left, Kimlyn Patishnock; Ben Chang, Third Place; Yash Dixit, Grand Prize; Charles Colvin, Honorable Mention; Chloe Engin, First Prize; Logan Wincott, Honorable Mention; and John Patishnock Jr. 

an illustration of gravitational waves

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The NANOGrav Collaboration has found the first evidence for low-frequency gravitational waves permeating the cosmos. This finding was made possible with 15 years of pulsar observations that turn the Milky Way into a galaxy-sized gravitational-wave detector.

Two people in front of a telescope

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Ann Schmiedekamp and Carl Schmiedekamp, physicists from Penn State Abington, in front of the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. 

an illustration of gravitational waves

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The NANOGrav Collaboration has found the first evidence for low-frequency gravitational waves permeating the cosmos. This finding was made possible with 15 years of pulsar observations that turn the Milky Way into a galaxy-sized gravitational-wave detector.