January 17, 2022
Successfully running a telescope array such as VERITAS, or building a new cutting-edge prototype such as the pSCT, is not an easy job. It requires a lot of behind-the-scenes work that not always gets a "refereed" recognition such as a publication in a peer-reviewed journal. For this reason, the VERITAS and now the pSCT collaboration yearly awards two outstanding contribution prizes to a graduate student and a postdoctoral researcher that performed critical service work enabling the science output of both telescopes. For 2022, the prizes were assigned to our student Deivid Ribeiro and researcher Qi Feng! Read more about their relentless work here https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/news/537-outstanding-2021