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April 10, 2010

Meagan Lang awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Following a nation-wide competition, GWAstro student Meagan Lang has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. These prestigious awards provide three years of tuition, stipend and travel support for graduate study leading to research-based doctoral degrees.

NSF Graduate Fellowship applications are reviewed by panels of disciplinary and interdisciplinary scientists, mathematicians, and engineers and other professional experts, graduate education. Applicants are ranked based on the strength of their academic record, their proposed plan of research, the description of previous research experience, references, Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General and Subject Test scores. Awards are made to those that the NSF expects will become knowledge experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching, and innovations in science and engineering. Award recipients are expected to be crucial to maintaining and advancing the nation's technological infrastructure and national security as well as contributing to the economic well being of society at large.

"The Penn State Gravitational-Wave Astronomy Group is supported by the National Science Foundation under awards PHY 06-53462 and PHY 09-40924. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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