On April 11, 2025, the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) announced its second cohort of RCSA Fellows, including CIERA Lindheimer Fellow
Sanaea Cooper Rose. The RCSA fellowship is designed to increase faculty excellence in the physical sciences through job search preparation and community building. RCSA Fellows benefit from professional development and support throughout the multiyear program, which aims to help them transition to tenure-track faculty positions.
“It’s an honor to be selected as an RCSA fellow,” says Rose. “I’m excited to join a supportive community of peers who are passionate about the production and dissemination of knowledge and having a positive impact on the communities around them.”
Sanaea studies interactions between stars and stellar remnants in dense star clusters. Her work focuses on how these interactions lead to unique stellar populations and drive extreme events like collisions, mergers, and tidal disruptions.
The (RCSA) is a private foundation that funds basic research in the physical sciences (astronomy, chemistry, physics, and related fields) at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. It creates and supports communities of early career researchers through two core programs — the Cottrell Scholar Program and Scialog — as well as the recently launched RCSA Fellows initiative.
More RCSA Affiliated Awards at CIERA:
- 2nd consecutive year with a CIERA recipient
- Profs Allison Strom and Adam Miller receive inaugural RCSA Scialog awards
- Prof. Adam Miller receives Cottrell Scholar Award
- CIERA Alum Daniel Anglés-Alcázar wins Cottrell Scholar Award
- Wen-fai Fong receives Cottrell Scholar Award
- Luke Kelley Awarded Cottrell Fellowship
- Prof. Claude-André Faucher-Giguère Named 2019 Scialog Fellow
- Professor Claude-André Faucher-Giguère Named Cottrell Scholar