{"id":273,"date":"2021-05-28T21:08:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T20:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/astro-obs\/?p=273"},"modified":"2021-05-28T21:08:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T20:08:18","slug":"two-pgrs-win-prizes-for-their-scientific-community-service-and-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/astro-obs\/2021\/05\/28\/two-pgrs-win-prizes-for-their-scientific-community-service-and-outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"Two PGRs win prizes for their scientific community service and outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The \u201cEuCAPT Outstanding contributor\u201d prize was awarded to Newcastle postgraduate researcher, Niko Sarcevic, during the First EuCAPT Annual Symposium<\/a>. EuCAPT<\/a> (European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory) is an organization with a goal of bringing together the European astroparticle and cosmology community. EuCAPT was established in 2019, with Gianfranco Bertone as a director and coordination from CERN. EuCAPT has over 600 members (2019 census).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI joined EuCAPT as a junior contributor in the fall of 2020. I have been working closely with Gianfranco Bertone (GRAPPA) and David Marsh (Stockholm) on developing new ways of bringing the EuCAPT community together. An example of such an initiative is a new feature on the EuCAPT blog<\/a> called \u201cCommunity profiles\u201d which is a weekly interview with a member of the community. Another example of my contribution is creating and hosting a\u00a0 HEP-ASTRO-COSMO GitHub repository<\/a> where all the open source code in the field of astroparticle, particle physics and cosmology is collected. Lastly, one of the campaigns resulted in the interactive community map featured on the EuCAPT home page. A similar code, publicly available, can be found on my website<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cPostgraduate Prize for Outreach\u201d was awarded by the Newcastle School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics to Alex Gough. This prize was awarded for Alex\u2019s contributions to the Astrobites collaboration and their public outreach talk to the Newcastle Astronomical Society about cosmology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Astrobites collaboration<\/a> is an international group of masters and PhD students who write accessible summaries of current astrophysics research papers, as well as specialist \u201cBeyond\u201d posts<\/a> about DEI problems in astronomy, mental health in academia, what the day-to-day life in astronomy looks like, and application processes and career advice. Contributing authors write approximately one article per month, along with helping edit other authors\u2019 articles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been reading Astrobites articles since I was in school, and getting to help contribute to the collaboration has been something I\u2019ve wanted to do for a long time. I think the \u2018daily bites\u2019, which make up the backbone of Astrobites provide a much needed niche in scientific literacy, helping aid undergraduate students in learning how to examine actual research articles. I\u2019m excited to help contribute to some of the Beyond topics that Astrobites has become more focused on in recent years, especially concerning equity issues in astronomy and physics. You can read my current articles<\/a> or find out about other things I do on my website<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u201cEuCAPT Outstanding contributor\u201d prize was awarded to Newcastle postgraduate researcher, Niko Sarcevic, during the First EuCAPT Annual Symposium. EuCAPT (European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory) is an organization with a goal of bringing together the European astroparticle and cosmology community. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outreach","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/astro-obs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/astro-obs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/astro-obs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/astro-obs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/astro-obs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/astro-obs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/astro-obs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/astro-obs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/astro-obs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/astro-obs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}