Hard work puts student in spotlight

Luo Jialun hit the Chinese media spotlight when he attended the news conference last week announcing that scientists had successfully detected gravitational waves, a discovery that opens new possibilities in space exploration.

The senior from Carleton College and others on the US-based team were mainly responsible for processing data to detect the existence of gravitational waves.

Luo, who graduated from Guangzhou Tianhe High School in 2012, said it was his persistence that allowed him to become a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory team.