MSUM alumna awarded $1.5 million fellowship

Dr. Heather Cegla (MSUM alumna Physics/Astronomy Spring 2010) was awarded a UKRI Future Leader Fellowship at the University of Warwick in England. This $1.5 million, four-year grant will allow Dr. Cegla to build a world-class research group developing techniques to enable the unambiguous detection of Earth-like planets around other stars. Dr. Cegla’s appointment is a tenure-track faculty position at Warwick.