MIT’s Faith Reyes helps steer an international neutrino experiment

Photo: Jodi Hilton for MIT News (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) · news.mit.edu MIT PhD student Faith Reyes has rapidly taken on a guiding role within Ricochet, an international collaboration studying the elusive behavior of neutrinos. Reyes progressed from learning the experiment’s fundamentals to helping guide the work of other scientists, a level of responsibility unusual for a student at her stage. “It felt like my collaborators trusted me, and I had something of value to give to the collaboration,” Reyes says. Beyond her research for Nuclear Science, Reyes fosters interest in physics as a tutor and teaching…