ProfessorSheila McBreen

Annual Awards in NASA Goddard which recognize the exceptional people and teams that contribute to Goddard's mission of exploration as well as those who have gone above and beyond in helping us achieve our mission on behalf of NASA. Awarded to Jeremy Perkins as BurstCube PI

The Fermi-GBM team have been awarded the 2018 Rossi prize for "the discovery of Gamma-rays coincident with a neutron-star merger gravitational wave event. This confirmed that short gamma-ray bursts are produced by binary neutron-star mergers and enabled a global multi-wavelength follow-up campaign". This prize is awarded annually by the High Energy Astrophysics division of the American Astronomical Society "for a significant contribution to High Energy Astrophysics, with particular emphasis on recent, original work".

As part of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team receiving a Space Flight Awareness (SFA) Team Award.

I was privileged to be nominated by my College Principal, Prof Joe Carty, to attend the Aurora Leadership Programme, which took place in Dublin over the first part of 2015. It was split into 5 separate days with some reflection or preparation before each event.

I was nominated for this American Physical Society Award for my contribution to research in astrophysics, contribution to research led teaching, and efforts to raise awareness on the issue of gender equality in physics, science and higher education in Ireland. https://www.aps.org/programs/women/scholarships/womanmonth/2015.cfm [Shortened URL: https://goo.gl/TNXwNU ]

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