Dr. Jerry Gilfoyle awarded continuing support from the U.S. Department of Energy
August 16, 2012
Dr. Jerry Gilfoyle, Clarence E. Denoon Professor of Science and Professor of Physics, has been awarded continuing support from the U.S. Department of Energy for “Medium Energy Nuclear Physics at the University of Richmond.” The recent award is for $46,000 for the current year, and will provide summer stipends for Dr. Gilfoyle and undergraduate students. This is the latest in DoE support that has been constant since 1996 and has totaled $979,000. Prior awards bring his total research grants close to $2 million.
He has also recently received a supplement to this year’s budget of $43,000, which will support a graduate-level visiting student from England. Much of the research conducted by Dr. Gilfoyle and his team is done at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in Newport News, where they will focus on the structure of nucleons and “measure the charge and magnetization distributions of the neutron and extract components of the deuteron wave function.”
Dr. Gilfoyle has taught at the University of Richmond since 1987, has published widely, and has been honored with awards for teaching and research. He is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College (A.B.) and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.).
He has also recently received a supplement to this year’s budget of $43,000, which will support a graduate-level visiting student from England. Much of the research conducted by Dr. Gilfoyle and his team is done at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in Newport News, where they will focus on the structure of nucleons and “measure the charge and magnetization distributions of the neutron and extract components of the deuteron wave function.”
Dr. Gilfoyle has taught at the University of Richmond since 1987, has published widely, and has been honored with awards for teaching and research. He is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College (A.B.) and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.).