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MORGANTOWN — An internationally renowned astrophysicist at West Virginia University has been selected as a new member of the National Academy of Sciences,

Astrophysicist and physics professor Maura McLaughlin from West Virginia University has attained a remarkable feat by being inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the first from WVU to receive such an honor. The NAS is renowned for providing expert counsel on scientific matters in the U.S. McLaughlin's election into the NAS, alongside 120 other new members, highlights her significant contributions to astrophysics, including groundbreaking work on detecting low-frequency gravitational waves and helping to discover fast radio bursts.

Astrophysicist and physics professor Maura McLaughlin from West Virginia University has attained a remarkable feat by being inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the first from WVU to receive such an honor. The NAS is renowned for providing expert counsel on scientific matters in the U.S. McLaughlin's election into the NAS, alongside 120 other new members, highlights her significant contributions to astrophysics, including groundbreaking work on detecting low-frequency gravitational waves and helping to discover fast radio bursts.

When our universe was less than half as old as it is today, a burst of energy that could cook a sun’s worth of popcorn shot out from somewhere amid a compact group of galaxies. Some 8 billion years later, radio waves from that burst reached Earth and were captured by a sophisticated low-frequency radio…

The stars aligned for WVU physics and astronomy professors Maura McLaughlin and Duncan Lorimer when they met early in their astrophysical careers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in