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Congratulations to Dr. Bridget Andersen, who has received the Dr. Allie Vibert Douglas Astrophysics PhD Thesis Prize!听

, the prize was established by Physics professor and Director of the Trottier Space Institute Vicky Kaspi to shine a light on the legacy of astrophysics trailblazer and 麻豆传媒网站 graduate Allie Vibert Douglas.听

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As part of her prize-winning PhD thesis, Andersen led the development of a new radio telescope system for the CHIME/FRB Collaboration to precisely pinpoint fast radio bursts, created methods to link these bursts to their host galaxies, and discovered a rare and unusual binary pulsar system.听

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