On August 4, CIERA graduate student Piramon Kumnurdmanee was selected by the Institute of International Education (IIE) as one of 37 Quad Fellowship recipients out of nearly 2,000 applicants from Australia, Japan, the U.S., and Southeast Asia, The Quad Fellowship supports top-performing master’s and doctoral students pursuing graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in the United States. Supported by the governments of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, the Quad Fellowship is designed to foster cross-national collaboration in STEM.
“I am grateful to be part of a community where Quad Fellows both push the boundaries of science and cherish interdisciplinary collaboration and positive societal impact,” Kumnurdmanee said.
Piramon’s research explores the environments of some of the most energetic explosions in the universe through multiwavelength observations. 
“It is exciting to leverage both space- and ground-based telescopes around the world to collect photons across the electromagnetic spectrum of these rapid cosmic booms,” Kumnurdmanee said.
Piramon Kumnurdmanee is an astronomy PhD candidate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences and a member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Exploration in Astrophysics (CIERA). She is advised by Professor Wen-fai Fong.