Jared Rice was awarded a prestigious Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Opportunity Fellowship in the amount of $21,000 for the 2015/2016 academic year. The NVSGC GROF supports Jared and his advisor Dr. Bing Zhang on their latest project on the characteristics of high-redshift tidal disruption events. Their proposal entitled "Tidal Disruption Events in the Early Universe" was selected by NVSGC as one of the top applications of the year across the state of Nevada. The fellowship is a 1:1 match from NVSGC and the UNLV Department of Physics and Astronomy. More details may be found on the NVSGC fellowship recipients page:
