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State University, Fresno physics professor Dr. Yongsheng Gao has been
awarded a three-year $460,000 grant by the National Science Foundation
Elementary Particle Physics program.
The grant – the only one to a CSU campus – will help fund Gao and a
small team of Fresno State students as they participate in research at
the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland.
During the summer, students spend six weeks in Geneva working and
learning with 8,000 other scientists from around the world on the
collider, hoping to advance science and discover “new physics.”
Researchers from universities such as Harvard, Yale, MIT, Columbia,
Stanford and UC Berkeley participate.
The grant is renewable every three years and will allow continued
participation by Fresno State students and faculty.
“This is a great opportunity for Fresno State,” Gao said. “The grant is
very prestigious and designed to provide long-term and stable funding
for our program. This grant brings Fresno State into the NSF particle
physics program community, which includes top-ranked universities.”
Gao has been involved with the collider program for nearly seven years.
He joined the Fresno State faculty in and helped the university join 170
other institutions from around the world as a member of the A Toroidal
Large Hadron Collider Apparatus (ATLAS) research program at the European
Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva.
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