· Congratulations to Professor Michael Fuhrer and his wife Cynthia Mitchel on the birth of their new baby boy! Tristan Joseph Fuhrer was born on May 4, 2005 at 9:26 p.m., weighing in at 7 lbs. 3 oz. Mom and baby are both doing well.
 

· Mr. Kyle Gustafson, a physics graduate student working in the plasma theory group, has been awarded a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship. This prestigious fellowship supports the graduate education of the most promising students expected to have the greatest impact on the application of the physical and engineering sciences to human problems during the next half-century. Mr. Gustafson is one of only fifteen students from a large, national pool of applicants to receive the award.

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· Congratulations to Professor Emeritus John Layman! He has been selected as the 2005 Distinguished Alumnus by his alma mater, Park University. The university cited Professor Layman's “outstanding career as a physics and science educator,” “prowess in the classroom,” and “publications and service within the academic community,” for earning him the distinction.

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· Graduate students Jianglai Liu and Tanja Horn both earned prizes for their thesis research at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory through the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) Poster Competition (JLab). Mr. Liu shared first prize with four of his colleagues for their work with the G0 experiment. Ms. Horn shared third place. Her poster described her Ph.D. thesis work, which is a determination of the charge distribution of the pion at high momentum transfer from pion electroproduction, using the pair of magnetic spectrometers in Hall C at Jefferson Lab. Congratulations to both students!

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· Congratulations to Professor Howard Milchberg, the winner of the Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research. Distributed by the American Physical Society, this award recognizes a particular recent outstanding achievement in plasma physics research. Dr. Milchberg was chosen as the 2005 recipient "for the conception and first realization of hydrodynamic shock-formed plasma channels, and for the development of diagnostics for their characterization." He will be presented with the award at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Plasma Physics, to be held October 24-28 in Denver , Colorado .

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· Professor Ho-Jung Paik has been elected to serve a two-year term as president of the Association of Korean Physicists in America (AKPA) and a three-year term as the physics councilor for the Korean Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA). Both terms began May 1, 2005.

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· Congratulations to Professor Edward Redish. He is a 2005 recipient of the National Science Foundation's Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars (DTS) for his outstanding contributions to university science education and to the field of physics education research. This is the highest honor awarded by NSF for research and education. Dr. Redish and the other members of the select group of award recipients were honored at a special ceremony on June 21, 2005 at the National Academies of Sciences in Washington , DC .

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· Congratulations to Dr. Ana Maria Rey, a 2005 physics grad, for winning this year's Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Atomic, Molecular, or Optical Physics award, distributed by the American Physical Society. She earned this prestigious honor for her thesis on time evolution of a Bose-Einstein condensate loaded into an optical lattice. In the 13-year history of the award, Dr. Rey is the first female recipient. She is also only the second theoretical physicist to win the award.

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· Distinguished University Professor Ellen Williams has been elected into the National Academy of Science. This is a truly prestigious honor that recognizes the nation's top scientists for their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research." Congratulations Professor Williams!

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