Kelly Malone wins prestigious undergraduate award

Publication date: Fri, Apr 19, 2013 - 12:20am

Senior Kelly Malone is one of four 2013 "Rising Researchers", a new campus-wide program to honor students whose achievements exemplify the quality of research, scholarship, and creative activity conducted by UMass Amherst undergraduates. Kelly, a physics and astronomy major, has worked on the enriched xenon observatory (EXO) experiment with Prof. Andrea Pocar since her sophomore year. Her Capstone project focussed on programming the computer control system of a radon abatement system for the EXO-200 experiment in New Mexico. ... more