Three Â鶹´«Ã½ Ph.D. students in the Physics Department have been awarded a coveted 2023-24 JSA/JLab Graduate Fellowship: Pushpa Pandey (Experimental Nuclear Physics; advisor: Sebastian Kuhn), Tommaso Rainaldi (Theoretical Nuclear Physics; advisor, Ted Rogers) and Marco Carillo Bernal (Theoretical Nuclear Physics; advisor, Raúl Briceño). The award comes with a $12,000 stipend supported by the Jefferson Science Associates (JSA) Initiatives Fund.
Also, during the recent June meeting of the Jefferson Lab User Organization, two Â鶹´«Ã½ graduate students were recognized for their contributions to the poster prize competition (also supported by JSA): Isurumali Neththikumara won the 2nd price for her poster "Re-Design of CEBAF Opitcs for ER@CEBAF" and Caleb Fogler received an Honorable Mention for his poster "Measuring CLAS12 D(e, e'pi) Cross sections for e4v".
In the same week, Â鶹´«Ã½ Ph.D. student Mariana Tenorio was awarded the "Best experimental poster prize" for her poster "Tagged analysis of J/psi photoproduction near threshold in CLAS12", presented at the 38th annual Hampton University Graduate Summer Program (HUGS23).