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For “distinguished contributions to Condensed Matter Physics, particularly for his seminal groundbreaking work in high energy density science of matter at extreme pressures.”

This is the first time since 2009 that three faculty members have been elected in one year, as 2023 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Designation as an AAAS fellow is a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community.

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Thomas Duffy, professor of geosciences at Princeton University, was awarded as an American Geophysical Union College of Fellows Distinguished Lecturer in 2023-24, in Earth Interior, Mineral and Rock Physics for his abstract, “Journey to the Center of a Super-Earth.” He was also selected as a 2023 Mercator Fellow in the Matter Under Planetary Interior Conditions Research Unit by the German Research Foundation.

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Maureen Zhang, a CMAP Research Experience for High Schoolers (REH) program alumna, won 2nd place in the category of physics and astronomy at ISEF Regeneron 2023, a highly competitive international science competition for high school students with nearly 3,000 student attendees. M. Zhang presented a machine learning project to determine the number of exoplanets in planetary systems.

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FUNDING AWARD
February 6, 2023 | 12:00 pm

Miki Nakajima selected as 2023 NSF CAREER Award recipient

Miki Nakajima, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester, is the recipient of a 2023 NSF CAREER award for her project, “CAREER: GLOW: Investigation on the evolution of magnetic fields of early Earth and beyond with cutting-edge research opportunities for future scientists.”

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FELLOWSHIP
October 19, 2022 | 12:00 pm

Eva Zurek named 2022 APS Fellow

Eva Zurek, professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has been named an American Physical Society (APS) Fellow for 2022. The APS Fellowship Program was created in 1921 for those in the physics community to recognize peers who have contributed to advances in physics through original research, innovative applications, teaching, and leadership.

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Richard Kraus, research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is the recipient of the inaugural American Physical Society’s 2023 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award for Studies of Matter at Extreme High Pressure Conditions. Kraus is recognized for his outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions by an early-career scientist to studies of matter at extreme high-pressure conditions.

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HONORIFIC AWARD
October 10, 2022 | 12:00 pm

Poster Award at AAPPS DPP 2022

Poster Award for “The Impact of Magnetic Fields on the Melting Curves of Warm Dense Matter” at the Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS) Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics in October 2022. Authors: I. N. Erez, R. Betti, J. R. Davies, J. L. Peebles, and P.-A. Gourdain.

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Hussein Aluie, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester and staff scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, has been recognized with the 2021 Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), an American Geophysical Union journal.

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Hussein Aluie, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester and staff scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, has been selected as one of up to two Young Observers in the U.S. National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM) program in 2022.

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APPOINTMENT
March 6, 2022 | 12:00 pm

Eva Zurek elected Vice Chair of APS/DCOMP

Eva Zurek, professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has been elected by the Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP) of the American Physical Society (APS) as its next Vice Chair. She will serve in the DCOMP Executive Committee as Vice-Chair for one year starting in May 2022, then for one year as Chair-Elect, followed by one year as Chair, and then as Past Chair in the final year.

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FELLOWSHIP
October 4, 2021 | 12:00 pm

J. J. Ruby awarded Lawrence Fellowship

A graduate student in the High Energy Density Physics Experiments Group at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics and IMAXED/CMAP, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, effective October 2021.

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APPOINTMENT
September 22, 2020 | 11:09 pm

Eight appointed to named professorships

Adam Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy, has been jointly appointed to the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, announced in September 2020.

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