Glenn Richardson, graduate student in physics with Professor David Moore, and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, has been awarded a Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research program (SCGSR) grant from the program’s 2022 Solicitation 2 cycle.
The SCGSR program provides supplemental funds for graduate awardees to conduct part of their thesis research at a host DOE laboratory/facility in collaboration with a DOE laboratory scientist. Richardson will develop and test nEXO’s cryogenic Application Specific Integrated Circuits (Cryo-ASICS) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory with SLAC associate scientist Brian Lenardo.
Richardson said, “I’m excited for the opportunity to broaden my skillset and horizons at SLAC this coming year, and am incredibly grateful for all the support and mentorship that both Professor Moore and Dr. Lenardo have provided me throughout this process.”
Richardson was one of 87 graduate students representing 33 states selected for the SCGSR for this cycle. Awardees were selected from a diverse pool of applicants from institutions around the country, based on merit review by external scientific experts. A full list of the awardees can be found at the SCGSR website.
“The SCGSR program provides a way for graduate students to enrich their scientific research by engaging with researchers at DOE national labs, learning from worldclass scientists and using state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. In addition, they get valuable opportunities to network and observe firsthand what it’s like to have a scientific career,” said Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Director of the DOE Office of Science. “I can’t wait to see what these young researchers do in the future. I know they will meet upcoming scientific challenges in new and innovative ways.”
More about the SCGSR program
Since 2014, the SCGSR program has provided over 1,000 U.S. graduate awardees from 159 universities with supplemental funds to conduct part of their thesis research at a host DOE national laboratory in collaboration with a DOE laboratory scientist. In this cohort, 30% of SCGSR awardees are women, 15% of the awardees attend Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), and 14% are from institutions in jurisdictions that are part of the Establishing Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).
SCGSR awardees work on research projects of significant importance to the Office of Science mission that address critical energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges at national and international scales. Projects in this cohort span seven Office of Science research programs and three priority convergence research topical areas – Accelerator Science, Data Science, and Microelectronics. Awards were made through the SCGSR program’s second of two annual solicitation cycles for FY 2022.
For more information on SCGSR, please go to the SCGSR home page.