Congratulations to multiple U²GRC students on their remarkable achievements. Undergraduate Morgan Beck has been honored with URI’s Undergraduate Student Research and Scholarship Excellence Award and will serve as an A&S Fellow in Summer 2025. Alumnus Tousif Islam (Ph.D. ’24) received an honorable mention in the GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize — an annual award from the Gravitational Wave International Committee and the Friends of Stefano Braccini that recognizes exceptional doctoral research in gravitational-wave science. And Som Bishoyi earned UMass Dartmouth’s Research in the Media Award for outstanding scholarship and science communication.