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2008 Nicholson Medal for Human
Outreach, American Physical Society
Dr. Katepalli Sreenivasan has been awarded the 2008 Nicholson
Medal for Human Outreach. The Medal was established in 1994 to recognize
the humanitarian aspects of physics and physicists and consists of a medal
and a certificate that includes the citation for which you are being recognized.
The citation that will appear on the certificate reads as follows:
“For his commitment to mentoring students and junior colleagues
and his significant contributions to fostering international collaborations
and promoting the advancement and education of early career scientists
from the developing world.”
The Nicholson Medal will be presented at the APS March 2009 meeting in
Pittsburgh, PA.
2008 Members Elected to the Amerian
Philosophical Society
Roald
Sagdeev, Director, East-West Center for Space Science, and Distinguished
University Professor of Physics, has been elected to the American Philosophical
Society.
Election to the APS honors extraordinary accomplishments in all
fields. The APS is unusual among learned societies because its membership
is comprised of top scholars from a wide variety of academic disciplines.
Nomination and Election
The APS is an honorary society that elects new members to their ranks
each year in April. Nominations for membership can only be made by Resident
members of the APS.
http://www.amphilsoc.org/
http://www.amphilsoc.org/members/2008NewMembersPR.doc
2008 R&D 100 Award
Michael
Coplan, Associate Director of IPST, and Director of the Chemical Physics
Program, and Charles Clark of NIST, and Associate Director of the Chemical
Physics Program, have been selected for a 2008 R&D 100 Award.
They will receive this important award for their Lyman Alpha Neutron Detector
(LAND).
Prestigious
National Fellowships to IPST Graduate Students
Ed O'Brien, a Chemical Physics graduate student working with Professor
Dave Thirumalai, was awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship for three
years. He will use this award to visit Cambridge, England. He also recently
won the Best Graduate Poster Award at the Biopolymer Gordon Conference.
Dr. Patrick Hughes, a Research Associate with Dr. Michael Coplan, was
awarded an NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at the NIST National Center
for Neutron Research (NCNR). Dr. Hughes received his Ph.D. in Physics
in December 2007 under the direction of Dr. Coplan and has been working
with him since.
Space Studies Board's James A.
Van Allen Lectureship
Dr. Frank B. McDonald has been selected by the Space Studies Board's Executive
Committee, National Academy of Sciences, as the recipient of the James
A. Van Allen Lectureship for Space and Earth Science. Dr. McDonald
will present his lecture, entitled Explorer 1: Gateway to the
Never Ending Wonders of Space Science, at an invitation-only event
at the National Air and Space Museum on June 26 as part of the Space Studies
Board's celebration of 50 years of space science and the Board's 50th
birthday.
2008 Distinguished International
Service Award
Jan Sengers has been chosen as the 2008 recipient of the Distinguished
International Service Award by the Office of International Programs.
President Mote will present the award on November 5, 2008.
2008
Dean's Outstanding Non-Exempt Employee Award
Mr. Ed Cole,
Engineering Tech III in IPST, has been selected as the recipient of the
2008 Dean's Outstanding Non-Exempt Employee Award. This honor is in recognition
of his exceptional service and professionalism in his duties for IPST
since starting employment
in 1990.
2008 Sloan Research Fellowship
Award Winner
Arpita Upadhyaya is a 2008 Sloan Research Fellowship Award Winner.
Assistant Professor Arpita
Upadhyaya of IPST/Physics was among the list of 2008 Sloan Research
Fellowship Award Winners. These awards are intended to enhance the careers
of the very best young faculty members in science. A total of 118 fellowships
are awarded annually. For more information, visit: http://www.sloan.org/programs/scitech_fellowships.shtml
National Academy of Science 2007
Election
Katepalli Sreenivasan has been elected a member of NAS.
He is now a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the
NAS.
Note: The National
Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new members and
18 foreign associates from 12 countries in recognition of their distinguished
and continuing achievements in original research.
The election was held during the business session of the 144th annual
meeting of the Academy. Those elected bring the total number of active
members to 2,025. Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the Academy,
with citizenship outside the United States . This election brings the
total number of foreign associates to 387.
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=05012007
2007 Poole and Kent Teaching Award
for Senior Faculty
Mikhail Anisimov is the winner of this year's Poole and Kent Teaching
Award for Senior Faculty.
Comments by Sheryl Ehrman, Selection Committee: To me, Mikhail is
such great example of a true scholar and educator who both recognizes
the potential of all of our students and helps them however
he can to achieve their goals. And by all students, I mean
not just the very bright ones that would excel anywhere with minimal input
from us, but also the students who are earnest, curious, and willing to
work hard.
2005 Royal Medal Award
Michael E.
Fisher has been awarded the 2005 Royal Medal, with the following citation:
Her Majesty the Queen has approved the recommendation of the President
and Council of the Royal Society that Dr. Fisher be awarded a Royal Medal
in recognition of his seminal contributions to wetting transitions, dislocation
melting and criticality of ionic solutions and many other topics in Statistical
Mechanics.
The Royal Medal will be awarded November 30, 2005, London, England.
For the history of the Royal Medal, please go to:
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?tip=1&id=1749
2005 APS Award for Excellence in Plasma
Physics Research
Howard M. Milchberg
Citation: “For the conception and first realization of hydrodynamic
shock-formed plasma channels, and for the development of diagnostics for
their characterization”.
Howard will be presented the award at the Banquet of the Division of Plasma
Physics, American Physical Society annual meeting, October 24-28, 2005
in Denver Colorado.
http://www.aps.org/praw/plasma/index.cfm
Ellen D. Williams, Elected Member of National
Academy of Sciences
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/05032005?OpenDocument
Wolf Prize
Professor Serguei Novikov has been awarded the 2005 Wolf Prize
in Mathematics for his "Fundamental and pioneering contributions
to algebraic and differential topology, and to mathematical physics, notably
the introduction of algebraic-geometric methods." The award
will be presented by the President of Israel, Mr. Moshe Katsav, in a special
ceremony to take place in Jerusalem on Sunday, May 22, 2005.
http://www.aquanet.co.il/wolf/
Eitan Tadmor, Distinguished University
Professor
Professor
Tadmor has been awarded the title of Distinguished University Professor.
This award is in recognition of his work in the area of numerical analysis
of time-dependent problems and is the highest academic honor that our
university confers upon a faculty member. He is a member of the
Department of Mathematics; Institute for Physical Science and Technology;
and Director, Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling.
Distinguished
Scholar Teacher Award 2005-2006
Professor Howard Milchberg has
been selected to be one of the 2005-2006 Distinguished Scholar-Teachers
at the University of Maryland at College Park.
http://www.faculty.umd.edu/FacAwards/dstlist.html
American Physical Society
Dissertation Award in Plasma Physics (See Awards and Prizes)
CREAM Status
(Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass)
The third CREAM flight is in preparation and is scheduled for December
2007.
http://cosmicray.umd.edu/homepage
or
http://cosmicray.umd.edu/cream/cream.html
Review engineer Larry Lutz's career with
IPST and the CREAM Project: http://www.outlook.umd.edu/article.cfm?id=2421
News items
- http://www.ipst.umd.edu/News/news.html
- Dr.
Murthy Gudipati - Remarks:
NASA News Release 07-17AR, April 6, 2007
http://spacescience.arc.nasa.gov/redglow/
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Two professors elected Fellows of the American Geophysical Union.
-
Professor
elected to the Executive Board of the American Physical Society.
- Professor Emeritus Ivo Babuska elected to the National Academy of
Engineering.
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