, assistant professor of astronomy in the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频, has been named a .
The fellowship from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation includes $875,000 in unrestricted funds to be used for research over five years. Ho is among a cohort of 20 early-career scientists and engineers receiving fellowships this year.
鈥淭he Packard fellowship will enable me to spend more time exploring new ideas and will support the growth of my group and my students鈥 development as scientists,鈥 Ho said. 鈥淚鈥檓 excited to join an interdisciplinary group of researchers and to learn from the other Packard fellows.鈥
Ho鈥檚 research uses telescopes located all over the world and in space to study the lives and deaths of stars and the physics of those phenomena and other energetic cosmic events. Observations spanning the electromagnetic spectrum, ranging across radio, millimeter, optical, X-ray and gamma-ray bands, provide clues about the final stages of massive-star evolution and the formation of compact objects (neutron stars and black holes). Ho takes observations and interprets the data to elucidate the physical processes generating the emission and to unveil the responsible astronomical sources.
Her overarching goal, she says, is to connect the final stages of massive-star evolution and the formation of compact objects to the observed characteristics of supernovae, transients, and neutron stars and black holes.
The unrestricted fellowship funds 鈥済ives fellows the opportunity to experiment and lead cutting-edge research which has led to critical advancements that impact our daily lives,鈥 according to a statement from the Packard Foundation. Packard Fellows have gone on to earn recognitions including Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics, Fields Medals, Alan T. Waterman Awards, Breakthrough Prizes, Kavli Prizes and elections to the national academies of science, engineering and medicine.
Ho was recently selected as one of only 50 early-career fellows to participate in the for 鈥淓arly Science with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time.鈥 Held over several days in Tucson in November, the Scialog will help the field make the most out of the data collected by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which will utilize the largest digital camera ever built to survey the night sky. Ho鈥檚 work was also recognized earlier this year with a from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Recent Packard Fellows from Cornell include Noah Stephens-Davidowitz, assistant professor of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science (2023); Kirstin Petersen, associate professor or electrical and computer engineering and Aref and Manon Lahham Faculty Fellow in Cornell Engineering (2019); and Ilana Brito, associate professor and Mong Family Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in Biomedical Engineering in the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering in Cornell Engineering (2017).
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