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Marcela Carena, head of the Theory Division at Fermilab, has been elected the new vice-chair of the Forum on International Physics of the American Physics Society. Her term starts in January 2023. “As part of the FIP chair-line, I am excited about the opportunity of applying my experience in building capacity and research infrastructure on a broader international stage,” said Carena. “I intend to concentrate on developing nations where sustained attention and support from the global physics community has great potential to…
From Brookhaven National Laboratory, October 11, 2022: Brookhaven National Lab announced yesterday that two of their scientists who led the “E821 g-2” experiment at BNL from 1990 through 2004 received the APS’s 2023 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics. William M. Morse and Bradley Lee Roberts received the honor for their leadership and technical ingenuity in achieving a measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment with a precision suitable to probe Standard Model.
From Stony Brook University, December 1, 2021: Chang Kee Jung, founding member of the DUNE collaboration, is recipient of the 2022 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize by the American Physical Society. Professor Jung is being recognized for his outstanding contributions and leadership in experimental neutrino physics and outstanding teaching and outreach, especially in the physics of sports.