UA to bolster nation’s workforce in precision timing

A one-of-a-kind graduate program at the University of Alabama will pave the way for highly-skilled professionals to enter the ranks of the critical field of precision timing. With nearly $3 million in support from the National Science Foundation, UA is offering 24 graduate school fellowships. The fellowships pay tuition and a stipend for students to concentrate in precision timing, the field of hyper-hyper accurate timekeeping traditionally based on atomic clocks. The ACCEPT (Alabama Collaborative for Contemporary Education in Precision Timing) program is open to students seeking master’s and