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Midshipman Chadwick Healy receives his diploma from President Barack Obama at the 2009 U.S. Naval Academy graduation ceremony in Annapolis, MD on May 22nd.

Midshipman Chadwick Healy receives his diploma from President Barack Obama at the 2009 U.S. Naval Academy graduation ceremony in Annapolis, MD on May 22nd. Ensign Healy worked with Drs. Jeff Livas and Ira Thorpe of the LISA Team in the Gravitational Astrophysics Laboratory at GSFC to develop lock acquisition algorithms for laser stabilization cavities. The LISA mission relies on extremely stable lasers to detect the distortion of space caused by inspiraling massive black holes in the early Universe.

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