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Heike Pfau Wins 2026 NSF CAREER Award

Heike Pfau, assistant professor of physics at Penn State, has been honored with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the U.S. National Science Foundation. The CAREER award is NSF's most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty members who can…
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