Listening to the cosmos: Dual federal wins propel Vanderbilt’s lunar science and workforce vision

When humans return to the lunar surface in the coming decade, the tools they carry to listen to the earliest echoes of deep space will bear the distinct imprint of Vanderbilt University research and design. Karan Jani, assistant professor of physics and astronomy and of electrical and computer engineering, and founding director of the Vanderbilt Lunar Labs Initiative, is the principal investigator on two new federal awards that will fuel development of the Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna, a gravitational-wave observatory program for the moon.