Research Support

The Ford group acknowledges generous current and recent support from numerous sources.

Recent Research Projects:

• Heising-Simons Foundation (HSF)

• NASA

  • Extreme Precision Radial Velocity Foundation Science Program (EPRV)

  • Exoplanets Research Program (XRP)

  • NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)

  • Astrophysical Data Analysis Program (ADAP)

  • Nexus for Exoplanet Systems Science (NExSS)

• National Science & Engineering Research Council of Canada: NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships program

• National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Grants (AAG) program

  • NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships (AAPF) program

  • Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program

• Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium: Graduate student fellowship program

• Pennsylvania State University (PSU):

  • Center for Astrostatistics (CASt)

  • Center for Exoplanets & Habitable Worlds (CEHW)

  • Eberly College of Science (ECoS)

  • Institute for Computational & Data Sciences (ICDS)

  • Penn State Astrobiology Research Centers (PSARC)

Sabbatical:

• Ambrose Monell Foundation

• Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

• Pennsylvania State University (PSU):

  • Eberly College of Science (ECoS)

  • Institute for Computational & Data Sciences (ICDS)

• Simons Foundation: Fellows in Theoretical Physics program

Student & Postdoc Travel:

• American Astronomical Society (AAS)

• NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)

• Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium

• Pennsylvania State University (PSU):

  • Center for Astrostatistics (CASt)

  • Center for Exoplanets & Habitable Worlds (CEHW)

Previous

Prior to moving to Penn State, the Ford Group also received valuable support from:

• University of Florida (UF)

• Aspen Center for Physics

• American Philosophical Society

• National Geographic Society (NGS)

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