Graduate Opportunities at Fisk in Astronomy and Astrophysics Research (GO-FAAR)

来自菲斯克大学的Keivan Stassun博士、Michael沃森博士和Arnold Burger博士将与来自范德比尔特大学的J. Kelly Holley-Bockelmann博士和来自波士顿大学（BU）的James杰克逊博士合作，共同开展一个名为“菲斯克天文学和天体物理学研究毕业生机会”（GO-FAAR）的项目。 开普敦大学（UCT）也将成为这一广泛合作的合作伙伴。 GO-FAAR将利用成功的菲斯克-范德比尔特硕士到博士桥梁计划来吸引，培训和指导学生。 由于与BU的合作，Bridge计划将扩展到包括仪器轨道。 GO-FAAR计划还将建立一个新的仪器实验室，并为菲斯克学生开发研究生仪器课程。GO-FAAR研究项目将包括天文仪器、计算天体物理学和观测天文学等领域。 仪器项目包括研制高能探测器以及空间和地面仪器。 GO-FAAR计划的观测天文学部分将研究恒星天体物理学、星星形成、凌日系外行星和超新星宇宙学。 每个主题都有一位来自合作组织的首席科学家，他将作为研究项目的联系人和学生导师。

Dr. Keivan Stassun, Dr. Michael Watson, and Dr. Arnold Burger from Fisk University will partner with Dr. J. Kelly Holley-Bockelmann from Vanderbilt and Dr. James Jackson from Boston University (BU) in a project to be known as Graduate Opportunities at Fisk in Astronomy and Astrophysics Research or GO-FAAR. The University of Cape Town (UCT) will also be a partner in this extensive collaboration. GO-FAAR will leverage the successful Fisk-Vanderbilt masters-to-PhD bridge program to attract, train and mentor students. The Bridge program will be expanded to include an instrumentation track thanks to the partnership with BU. The GO-FAAR program will also build a new instrumentation lab and develop a graduate instrumentation course for Fisk students. The GO-FAAR research projects will include the areas of astronomical instrumentation, computational astrophysics and observational astronomy. The instrumentation projects include the development of high-energy detectors and space- and ground-based instrumentation. The observational astronomy component of the GO-FAAR program will investigate stellar astrophysics, star formation, transiting exoplanets, and supernovae cosmology. Each of these topics has a lead scientist from one of the partnering organizations who will serve as a point of contact and student mentor for the research program.