Talk:Sarah Shandera

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Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 12:29, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

COI edit request: update title, career timeline, and CMB-S4 status; suggested sources

Hello. I am the subject of this article and have a conflict of interest, so I am not editing it directly. I'd like to suggest the following factual updates, each with a source, and note some independent references that may help address the maintenance tag.

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1. Academic title (out of date). The article calls me "associate professor." I was promoted to full Professor of Physics at Penn State effective July 1, 2024. The infobox and lead could be updated to "Professor of Physics." Source: Eberly College of Science, "Tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2024" — https://science.psu.edu/news/tenure-line-faculty-promotions-2024

2. Career timeline (incomplete). The full rank history at Penn State is: Assistant Professor of Physics (2011–2018), Associate Professor (2018–2024), Professor (2024–present). Director of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos (2021–present) is current and correct.

3. CMB-S4 (significantly out of date). The article says I "serve as a member of the Executive Team" of the CMB-S4 collaboration, in the present tense. Two corrections are needed. First, my term on the CMB-S4 Executive Team ran 2022–2024 and has ended. Second, and more importantly, U.S. federal support for the CMB-S4 project was withdrawn on July 9, 2025, and the project entered an orderly shutdown; it is no longer an active project. The article should reflect that CMB-S4 is no longer ongoing, and describe my role in the past tense. Sources:

• CMB-S4 official statement — https://cmb-s4.org/
• Science (AAAS), "U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation" —

 https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-abandons-hunt-signal-cosmic-inflation

• Scientific American, "U.S. Ends Support for CMB-S4 Project" —

 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-ends-support-for-cmb-s4-project-to-study-cosmic-inflation/

Independent sources that may help with the maintenance tag. The tag notes the article leans on sources closely associated with me. These are more independent and may be usable as references:

• Charles E. Kaufman Foundation / The Pittsburgh Foundation (New Initiatives

 grant, 2019):
 https://kaufman.pittsburghfoundation.org/awards/initiative/2019/SubSolarMassBlackHoles
 and https://pittsburghfoundation.org/kaufman-grants-2019

• Philanthropy News Digest coverage of the same grant (independent) —

 https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/kaufman-foundation-awards-1.8-million-for-scientific-research

• American Physical Society, Fundamental Physics Innovation Award recipients,

 2020 (the Moore Foundation award, administered by APS) —
 https://www.aps.org/programs/innovation/moore/recipients20.cfm

• Perimeter Institute profile (Visiting Fellow) —

 https://perimeterinstitute.ca/people/sarah-shandera

Peer-reviewed journals and the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration publications may also serve as independent secondary sourcing for the research described.

Thank you to any editor who is able to review these.AncillaryMountain (talk) 15:26, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

Reply 28-JUL-2026

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• Your edit request could not be reviewed because the provided references are not formatted correctly. The citation style predominantly used by the Sarah Shandera article is Citation Style 1 (CS1). The citation style used in the edit request consists of bare URL's. Any requested edit of yours which may be implemented will need to resemble the current style already in use in the article – in this case, CS1. (See WP:CITEVAR.) In the extended section below titled Citation style, I have illustrated two examples: one showing how the edit request was submitted, and another showing how requests should be submitted in the future:

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The Sun's diameter is 864,337 miles, while the Moon's diameter is 2,159 miles. The Sun's temperature is 5,778 Kelvin.

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The Sun's diameter is 864,337 miles,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sjöblad|first1=Tristan|title=The Sun|url=http://www.booksource.com|publisher=Academic Press|date=2020|page=1}}</ref> while the Moon's diameter is 2,159 miles.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Harinath|first1=Prisha|title=Size of the Moon|journal=Science|issue=78|volume=51|url=http://www.journalsource.com|date=2020|page=46}}</ref> The Sun's temperature is 5,778 Kelvin.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Uemura|first1=Shu|title=The Sun's Heat|url=http://www.websource.com|publisher=Academic Press|date=2020|page=2}}</ref>

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The Sun's diameter is 864,337 miles, while the Moon's diameter is 2,159 miles. The Sun's temperature is 5,778 Kelvin.

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• Kindly submit a new, properly formatted edit request below this reply post at your earliest convenience, taking care to ensure that it makes use of CS1. If you have any questions about this formatting please don't hesitate to ask myself or another editor.

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Regards,  Spintendo  02:51, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

== COI edit request (resubmission): update title, career timeline, and CMB-S4 status — now with CS1-formatted references ==

Hello. I am the subject of this article and have a conflict of interest, so I am not editing it directly. This is a resubmission of my request of 16 July 2026, which User:Spintendo was unable to review because my references were bare URLs. All references below are now formatted using Citation Style 1, matching the style already in use in the article. Thank you, Spintendo, for the clear explanation and examples.

1. Academic title (out of date). The lead and article describe me as an "associate professor." I was promoted to full Professor of Physics at Penn State effective July 1, 2024.

Current text (lead): Sarah Shandera is a physicist and an associate professor at the Pennsylvania State University.

Proposed text: Sarah Shandera is a physicist and a professor of physics at the Pennsylvania State University.

2. Career timeline (incomplete/incorrect). The article says I joined Penn State as an Associate Professor in 2011. My full rank history at Penn State is: Assistant Professor of Physics (2011–2018), Associate Professor (2018–2024), Professor (2024–present). (Director of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, 2021–present, is current and correct as written.)

Current text (Research and career): Shandera joined The Pennsylvania State University as an Associate Professor of Physics in 2011, and in 2021, she became the Director of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos there.

Proposed text: Shandera joined the Pennsylvania State University as an Assistant Professor of Physics in 2011, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018 and to Professor in 2024, and in 2021 became the Director of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos there.

3. CMB-S4 (significantly out of date). The article states, in the present tense, that I "serve as a member of the Executive Team" of the CMB-S4 collaboration. Two corrections are needed. First, my term on the CMB-S4 Executive Team ran 2022–2024 and has ended. Second, U.S. federal support for the CMB-S4 project was withdrawn on July 9, 2025, and the project entered an orderly shutdown; it is no longer an active project.

Current text (lead): She serves as a member of the Executive Team of the next generation ground-based Cosmic microwave background experiment,CMB S-4 collaboration.

Proposed text (lead): She served on the Executive Team of the CMB-S4 collaboration, a next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment, from 2022 to 2024; U.S. federal support for the project was withdrawn in July 2025.

Current text (Research and career): She is a member of the Executive Team of the next generation ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment, the CMB-S4 collaboration.

Proposed text (Research and career): From 2022 to 2024 she served on the Executive Team of the CMB-S4 collaboration, a next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment. U.S. federal support for CMB-S4 was withdrawn on July 9, 2025, and the project began an orderly shutdown.

4. Independent sources that may help with the maintenance tag. The tag notes the article leans on sources closely associated with me. The following independent sources, now formatted in CS1, may be usable as references (for the Honors section and research description). Note that the Philanthropy News Digest and APS pages are no longer live, so archived versions are supplied; the Perimeter Institute profile URL now redirects, so an archived version is supplied for it as well.

• Charles E. Kaufman Foundation / The Pittsburgh Foundation (New Initiatives grant, 2019): and
• Philanthropy News Digest coverage of the same grant (independent):
• American Physical Society, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Fundamental Physics Innovation Award recipients, 2020:
• Perimeter Institute profile (Visiting Fellow):

Peer-reviewed journals and the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration publications may also serve as independent secondary sourcing for the research described.

Thank you to any editor who is able to review these. AncillaryMountain (talk) 15:36, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

References

AncillaryMountain (talk) 15:36, 30 August 2026 (UTC)