Anna-Christina Eilers, a NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow with the MIT Kavli Institute, has won three prestigious awards for her thesis research at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. In her thesis work, Eilers studied extremely luminous galaxies called quasars that exist 13 billion light years from Earth. Light from these quasars takes so long to

Two graduate physics students at the MIT Kavli Institute have received $70,000 MathWorks Fellowships. The students, Nicholas Demos and Wenxuan Jia, work on projects related to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the lab of Matthew Evans, the MIT MathWorks Professor of Physics. “It’s a great thing for both of them and our lab