Congratulations to Physics Professor and Director, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Institute (EPSSI) Petra Huentemeyer, principal investigator on a recently awarded $860,000 NSF grant to help design a $50 million Southern hemisphere gamma-ray observatory as part of a large collaboration of astrophysicists that she leads. Professor Huentemeyer is currently a leader in the HAWC observatory, located high on a volcano in Mexico!