Professor Ilan Levine received $280,000 over the next three years from the National Science Foundation to continue his study of dark matter. Levine and his students are participating in Program in Canada to Search for Supersymmetric Objects (PICASSO). Based at the University of Montreal, PICASSO is an international collaboration that includes researchers from Montreal, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; the University of Pisa, Yale University and Indiana University South Bend.

PICASSO aims to detect dark matter by using superheating droplets of Freon in a gel.

Professor Henry Scott received $35,000 from the Petroleum Foundation over two years to continue his study of methane from common earth materials at pressure and temperatures characteristic of the earth’s mantle.