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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, received a 2023听Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. It鈥檚 the first time a 易胜博官网 faculty member has received this prestigious award. , who is also a core faculty in women鈥檚 and gender studies,听is among听25听outstanding teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy to receive the award of $100,000 to fund proposed research and science education. Cottrell Scholars听are chosen through a rigorous peer-review process of applications from a wide variety of public and private research universities and primarily undergraduate institutions in the United States and Canada.

Prescod-Weinstein鈥檚 award will support a research and education project called 鈥淪earching for a Vibrant Dark Sector,鈥� which seeks to understand dark matter by synergizing theoretical work and astrophysical observations. 鈥淚t鈥檚 easy to think that the incredible universe that we see when we look through a telescope or a microscope is everything that鈥檚 out there. But it turns out that most of the matter in the universe is apparently invisible,鈥� she says. 鈥淲e see its effects in our astronomical observations, so we know it鈥檚 there, but so far we鈥檝e never detected it in a lab.鈥�

In addition, Prescod-Weinstein will develop and teach a new advanced undergraduate and graduate-level course, Physics in Social Context. The course aims to equip students with a foundation in the history of physics through an interdisciplinary lens, allowing them to develop proficiency at identifying and addressing anti-empirical practices and norms within physics classrooms or research environments.

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