Our group got two new grants to fund exciting work on two very different topics! First, we were awarded an NSF grant, in collaboration with Prof. Alex Drlica-Wagner’s group at Chicago, to find and characterize dwarf galaxies in the Local Volume. Second, we were awarded a NASA grant to study cosmic-ray transport and gamma-ray emission from the Sun. This grant involves many current OSU people and recent OSU alums, as well as a number of experimental and solar physics collaborators sprinkled around the globe. You can read more here:
On a personal note, I am extremely relieved that these two grants on two SUPER exciting topics came in when they did. I have a young child who has been home for the past six months. Without my in-laws, my mental health and productivity would have really tanked. I really was not looking forward to writing grant proposals this semester, which already is loaded with teaching & service responsibilities, with an extroverted five-year-old glued to me. Thanks to the success of these grants and the child care provided by my in-laws, this term is going to be manageable. I’m excited to get going on the science!