<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/magazine/fall-2023/elevated-research-0.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Elevated Research</title><excerpt>At 17,000 feet in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Jen Ito, assistant professor of physics, and two of her research students worked on the Simons Array, a set of three telescopes that study the cosmic microwave background. Michael Lew ’24 and Jacob Nelson ’24 were the first undergraduates in more than a decade to work on the array, part of an experiment to learn more about the universe’s early history.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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