By Gabriel Popkin, Inside Science When leaders of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, announced in February the first-ever direct detection of a gravitational wave, astrophysicists Scott Ransom from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Andrea Lommen at Franklin and Marshall University in Lancaster, Pennsylva
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MORGANTOWN An internationally renowned astrophysicist at West Virginia University has been selected as a new member of the National Academy of Sciences,
Astrophysicist and physics professor Maura McLaughlin from West Virginia University has attained a remarkable feat by being inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the first from WVU to receive such an honor. The NAS is renowned for providing expert counsel on scientific matters in the U.S. McLaughlin s election into the NAS, alongside 120 other new members, highlights her significant contributions to astrophysics, including groundbreaking work on detecting low-frequency gravitational waves and helping to discover fast radio bursts.