Congratulations to professor Ilan Levine for securing new National Science Foundation funding in support of his work! The proposal title is MRI Consortium: Development of Instrumentation for the PICO-500 Bubble Chamber, and the award is for >$770k. Specifically, the funding will support Prof. Levine and his collaborators as they help to develop and fabricate a ton-scale dark matter detector.
Prof. Levine has a strong history of obtaining external support for his highly collaborative work in astro-particle physics, and he has included many undergraduate researchers in his projects in addition to high-school teachers and students as well. Below is a picture of him with his astro-particle group from Summer 2017:
Rear Left to Right: Brendan Tubbs, science teacher, Adams HS; Aaron Roeder, IUSB grad, now an engineering PhD student at U. Notre Dame; Levi Klopfenstein, IUSB physics major; David Giger, now engineering major at U. Notre Dame; Paige Oedekerk, IUSB grad and now a researcher at Whirlpool corporation.
Front Left to Right: Ed Behnke, engineer; Kelly Allen, Elkhart HS now a freshman physics major, IUSB; Prof. Levine; Nathan Walkowski, IUSB Physics Major.
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