Prof. Emily Levesque receives Sloan Fellowship for outstanding early-career research

Astronomy professor Emily Levesque was awarded an early-career fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Sloan Research fellowships “seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.” Prof. Levesque is a stellar astrophysicist whose research focuses on massive stars; she has recently discovered a new type of hybrid star, called a Thorne-Zytkow object. Congratulations, Emily!