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<p>B. Douglas Edmonds, assistant professor of physics at Penn State Hazleton, was part of a team of researchers to win a second prize in an annual cosmology competition.</p><p>The winners of the 2018 Buchalter Cosmology Prize were announced at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, Washington. The annual prize, created by Ari Buchalter in 2014, seeks to reward new ideas or discoveries that have the potential to produce a breakthrough advance in the understanding of the origin, structure and evolution of the universe.</p><p>The $5,000 second prize was awarded to Edmonds, Duncan Farrah of the University of Hawaii, Djordje Minic of Virginia Tech, Y. Jack Ng of the University of North Carolina and Tatsu Takeuchi of Virginia Tech for their work entitled &#8220;Modified Dark Matter: Relating Dark Energy, Dark Matter and Baryonic Matter&#8221; recognized by the judging panel as &#8220;an imaginative and courageous paper that proposes new ideas to address long unresolved fundamental questions in cosmology, proposing a form of modified dark matter that gives rise to a new MOND formulation accounting for observations at both galaxy and cluster scales.&#8221;</p><style>
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PSU/Hazleton prof receives award in cosmology competition