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Paulo Bedaque (Physics) has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for pioneering contributions to several distinct areas of theoretical nuclear physics, including effective field theories in few-body physics, the phase structure of dense quark matter, and nuclear forces from lattice QCD.

E. Hugo Berbery (AOSC) has been elected a 2011 Honorary Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.

Shuvra Bhattacharyya (UMIACS and ECE) has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE for his seminal contributions to design optimization for signal processing.

Michael Fuhrer (Physics and IREAP) has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for experimental studies of the electronic transport properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene.

Raj Roy (Physics, IPST and IREAP) was awarded the Distinguished International Service Award from the Institute for International Programs in recognition of significant contributions to the development of international programs at UM. Roy is one of the founders of the Hands-On Research in Complex Systems Schools <http://www.handsonresearch.org/> program. Sponsored by The Abdus Salam Internal Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste, Italy), the school brings some 100 faculty and graduate students from around the world to be part of the two week program. To date the programs have been held in Brazil, India and Cameroon.

Roberta Rudnick (Geology) has been awarded the 2012 Dana Medal <http://www.minsocam.org/msa/awards/Dana.html> by the Mineralogical Society of America Council. The Medal recognizes sustained outstanding scientific contributions through original research in the mineralogical sciences by an individual in the midst of his or her career who has not been previously recognized as a recipient of the MSA Award.

Eun-Suk Seo (Physics and IPST) has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for leading the development and utilization of particle detectors for balloon and space-based experiments to understand cosmic ray origin, acceleration and propagation, especially as Principal Investigator of the Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass balloon-borne experiment over Antarctica.

Ian Spielman (Physics, JQI and NIST) has been awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) "…to pursue topics in quantum simulation, using highly controlled, ultracold atoms trapped in crystals of laser light to simulate intractable problems in solid-state physics."

Greg Sullivan (Physics) has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for contributions to the field of experimental elementary particle physics including contributions to the discovery of the top-quark at the Fermilab tevatron and new properties of neutrinos using Super Kamiokande-I, and for the development of experimental techniques in neutrino detection with the Super Kamiokande-I and IceCube detectors.

Edo Waks (JQI, IREAP and ECE) has been awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for "..advancing the frontiers of knowledge in coherent interactions between photons and quantum dots using photonic crystals, and for engaging in education and outreach activities, including local schools in Maryland."

Min Wu (UMIACS and ECE) has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE in recognition of her contributions to multimedia security and forensics.

Undergraduate contestants Anirudh Bandi (Computer Science and Theater), Holman Gao (Mathematics and Computer Engineering) and Scott Zimmerman (Computer Science) with coach Amol Deshpande (Computer Science and UMIACS), have advanced to the 2011 ACM-Intercollegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World finals, which will be held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The team is one of 100 teams chosen from over 8,700 teams that participated in the regional contests worldwide.

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Charles Clark (Physics, IPST and JQI), Michael Coplan (Physics and IPST) and Alan Thompson (NIST), "Apparatus and Method for Detecting Slow Neutrons by Lyman Alpha Radiation."

Wolfgang Losert (Physics, IREAP and IPST) et al., "Spatially Selective Deposition of Polysaccharide Layer onto Patterned Template."

Min Wu (UMIACS and ECE) et al., "Data Hiding in Compiled Program binaries for Supplementing Computer Functionality."

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Robert Adler (ESSIC), NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, $113,806, "Global Precipitation Variations and Extremes."

Steven Anlage (Physics), DOE-Chicago, $583,000, "Recovery: Investigation of Microscopic Materials Limitations of Superconducting RF Cavities."

Samrat Bhattacharjee (Computer Science and UMIACS), NSF, $880,000, "NetSE: Mediium: Collaborative Research: Privacy Preserving Social Systems."

James Carton (AOSC and ESSIC), NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, $123,600, "Exploring Interannual and Longer Variability of Observed Ocean Winds by Merging the Ers1, Ers2 and Quik."

Sankar Das Sarma (Physics and JQI), Harvard University, $192,750, "Multi-Quibit."

Russell Dickerson (AOSC), STMD-Maryland Department of the Environment, $102,979, "MDE Research Assistant, FY11."

Lise Getoor (Computer Science and UMIACS), Charles River Analytics, $107,694, "DEPEND."

Sujay Kaushal (Geology and ESSIC), NSF, $197,999, "Collaborative Research: The Effects of Watershed Urbanization on In-Stream Transfer."

Wolfgang Losert (Physics, IPST and IREAP), Duke University, $109,035, "Controlling Penetration of Projectiles into Granular Media to Combat WMD."

Abhishek Motayed (IREAP), Defense Threat Reduction Agency, $1,050,000, "Study of Charge Transport in Vertically-Aligned Nitride Nanowire Based Core Shell P-I-N Junctions."

Gregory Nusinovich (IREAP), DOE-Chicago, $196,000, "Theory of Factors Limiting High-Gradient Operation of Warm Accelerating Structures."

Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas (AOSC), NOAA, $135,000, "North American Hydroclimate Variability in CMIP5 Model Climate Simulations and Projections: Are Simulations Improving and Projections Converging?"

Steven Salzberg (Computer Science and UMIACS), Boston University, $156,638, "RECOVERY: SciBay: A New Methodology for Scientific Collaboration and Gene Function Determination."

Rong-Hua Zhang (ESSIC), NSF, $599,998, "Effects of Freshwater Flux Forcing on Interannual Climate Variability and Predictability in the Tropical Pacific."

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UMD launched a new Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2) in October which will adopt a holistic approach to cybersecurity education, research and technology development, stressing comprehensive, interdisciplinary solutions. The Center will be led jointly by Larry Davis (Computer Science Chair) and Patrick O'Shea (Electrical and Computer Engineering Chair).

A new UMD program, ADVANCE, has received $3.2 million funding by the NSF, with additional pledges by the university's provost, deans and vice president of research. The program, ADVANCE Program for Inclusive Excellence, seeks to increase the representation of women faculty members in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Provost Farvardin is the PI, with co-investigators Avis Cohen (Biology), Darryl Pines (Dean, Engineering) and Kerry Ann O'Meara (Education).

The 2010 Russell Marker Symposium "Modern Biophysics of the Cell" presented by Chemistry and Biochemistry, IPST and the Graduate Program in Biophysics, took place on October 18. Vladimir Gelfand, Northwestern University, Jonathon Howard, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden and Stanislas Leibler, The Rockefeller University and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, were speakers, with Professor Michael E. Fisher (Physics and IPST) giving the Closing Remarks.

The Joint Space-Science Institute <http://jsi.astro.umd.edu/> (JSI), consisting of astronomers, astrophysicists and physicists from the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, hosted a cross-cutting workshop to examine the physics and astrophysics of energy flows in and around black holes. Over 100 registrants from around the world discussed many aspects of observations, phenomenology, fundamental theory, and how they all fit together. The workshop was held in Annapolis, MD on November 15-17.

Dorothy Beckett (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has joined the Editorial Advisory Board for the ACS journal "Biochemistry." She is also Associate Editor of the journal "Protein Science," a position held since 2009.

Dieter Brill (Physics) gave a plenary talk at the Petrov 2010 Anniversary Symposium on General Relatively and Gravitation, November 1-6, Kazan, Russia. The Symposium marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alexey Zinoveievich Petrov, who founded the Department of Relativity and Gravitation at Kazan State University in 1960.

Michael Brown (Geology) convened a session entitled "High-Pressure and High-Temperature Metamorphism: P-T-t Paths and Tectonics" at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO on October 31.

Philip Candela (Geology) delivered a keynote address at the Vapors, Brines, Sulfides, and Mines: Understanding Metal Mobility in Magma-Hydrothermal Systems and their Supergene Successors session of the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO , October 31.

Michael Doyle (Chemistry and Biochemistry) presented "Challenges in Education and Research in the Sciences in a Time of Change" at the Chemical Society of Washington meeting in Washington, D.C. on October 21. He spoke on "The Magic of Dirhodium" at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China and at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, both in September, 2010 and at Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, November, 2010.

James Gates (Physics) gave a presentation before the Aeronautical Industry Association/National Defense Industry Association's STEM Ed committee meeting on October 25: gave a public lecture, "What is Reality?" at the Sci Fest sponsored by the St. Louis Science Festival, St. Louis, MO, October 18: lectured to the entering class at the African Institute for Mathematics, Cape Town and gave a public lecture at Stellenbosch University, October 11-13.

Mohammad Hajiaghayi (Computer Science and UMIACS) has won the Google Faculty Research Award for his proposal "Online Auctions." The program aims to identify and support world-class, full-time faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest.

Andrew Harris (Astronomy) et al., published a paper in Science, November 5, describing how they used early data from the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey to demonstrate that wide-area submillimeter surveys can simply and easily detect strong gravitational lensing events, with close to 100% efficiency. NSF selected the paper for the featured news banner at the top of its home page.

Chris Jarzynski (Chemistry and Biochemistry and IPST) presented a talk entitled "Guiding the Motion of Artificial Molecular Machines" at a workshop on Optimization in Stochastic Nano-systems, October 10-13, in Delmenhorst, Germany.

Walter Kohn, Nobel laureate, who invented the density-functional theory of matter, delivered the 2nd Richard E. Prange Prize and Lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory and Related Areas, October 19. His lecture was entitled "A World Powered Predominantly by Solar and Wind Energy."

Jack Minker (Professor Emeritus, Computer Science and UMIACS) presented invited lectures at two workshops in Lexington, Kentucky, during November. At the workshop "NonMon@30," the anniversary of 30 years of nonmonotonic reasoning, Minker, one of the pioneers in this field, lectured on his "Reminiscences on the Anniversary of 30 Years of Nonmonotonic Reasoning." At the workshop, "Symposium on Constructive Mathematics in Computer Science," in honor of the 65th birthday of Professor Michael Gelfond, Minker's invited lecture was entitled, "Homage to Michael Gelfond on his 65th Birthday". Gelfond is one of the world leading scientists in logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning.

Raghu Murtugudde (AOSC and ESSIC) has developed, in collaboration with the University of New Mexico, an international course on Sustainable Economic Development <http://www.unmindia.com/> in India which is being offered in the Summer of 2011. Murtugudde gave an invited talk on "Regional Earth System Prediction for Sustainable Coastal Management and Ecosystem Forecasting for Coastal India" at the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad, India. At the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India he gave an invited talk on "Regional Earth System Prediction Framework for Monsoons and Human Health."

Toan Nguyen (Biochemistry undergraduate) won first place for his poster "BAX Forms Gated-Voltage Channels" at the 13th Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences, held at UMBC on October 30.

Steven Salzberg (Computer Science, CBCB and Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics) gave the keynote address at the Beyond the Genome conference in Boston, October 11, on estimating the human gene count. The estimate he currently favors is 22,333, though the exact number remains a mystery. His talk was covered by Nature, Science News, Natural News, U.S. News & World Report and Genome Web.

Steven Salzberg (Computer Science, CBCB and Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics) and Mihaela Pertea (CBCB) developed an open source computer program to test for cancer-causing gene mutations. The software, made freely available to the public, circumvents gene patents held by companies. Nature, Genome Web, the Daily Scan and Forbes reported on the project in October.

Surjalal Sharma (Astronomy) was the Guest of Honor and delivered the keynote address at the 7th National Conference of the Physics Academy of the North East PANE 2010, Manipur University, Canchipur, Imphal, India, October 5.

Lawrence Sita (Chemistry and Biochemistry) was a Keynote Speaker at the Inauguration Ceremony of Dr. Samuel Horne (the inventor of synthetic rubber) at the International Rubber Science Hall of Fame at the University of Akron, Ohio, November 5.

Eitan Tadmor (Mathematics, CSCAMM and IPST) was an invited speaker at the "North British Differential Equations Seminar," lecturing at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and Leeds, November 9-15.

Bo-Wen Shen (ESSIC) gave a project demonstration entitled "Recent Advances in Global Hurricane Modeling after Katrina" at the Supercomputing Conference 2010 (SC10), held in New Orleans, LA, November 13-18. The demonstration integrated NASA's high-resolution global model and concurrent visualization techniques on the Pleiades supercomputer to produce high-resolution simulations that improve our understanding of mesoscale predictability for tropical cyclones (TCs), and to extend the lead time of predicting TCs by the interactions of (for example) different kinds of large-scale tropical waves.

Herman O. Sintim (Chemistry and Biochemistry) gave an invited talk at the University of Minnesota, November 11, on "Bio-analyte Detection with New Isothermal Amplification Strategies and Efforts to Solve the Bacterial Resistance Problem with Small Molecules."

VisiSonics, a startup company founded by Ramani Duraiswami (Computer Science and UMIACS) and Adam O'Donovan (Computer Science graduate student and 2005 B.S. Computer Science and Physics) with Bill Strum, was named "One to Watch" at the Emerging Companies Summit in late September. The summit, sponsored by NVIDIA, had 60 startup companies participating, with five receiving "One to Watch" awards.

Wendy Wang (ESSIC) gave an invited talk entitled "The Carbon Cycle on Arid Land in the Changing World: A Perspective" at the 2010 Yangling International Agri-science Forum, Yangling, China, November 1-3. She also presented a talk entitled "Spatial and Temporal Variations in Carbon Fluxes in the Tropical Oceans: Comparisons of Pacific and Atlantic Oceans" at the IMBER IMGIZO II Integrating Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems in a Changing Ocean: Regional Comparison, which took place on October 10-14, Crete, Greece.

Ning Zeng (AOSC and ESSIC) organized a workshop on "Ecological Carbon Sequestration via Wood Burial and Storage: A Strategy for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation," September 9-10, at the Heinz Center, Washington, DC. The workshop, supported by DOE and attended by representatives from ORNL, PNNL, the World Bank, UMD, JHU and several NGOs, scrutinized an emerging strategy of carbon sequestration for climate mitigation.

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Michael A'Hearn (Leader of the EPOXI <http://epoxi.umd.edu/> science team), Lori Feaga and Jessica Sunshine (all Astronomy) were extensively quoted and/or mentioned in the media on the Deep Impact spacecraft passing by comet Hartley 2 on November 4. The flyby images show spectacular jets of gas and particles bursting from many distinct spots on the surface of the comet – the first time images of a comet have been sharp enough to allow scientists to link jets of dust and gas with specific surface features. The analysis of the spectral signatures of the materials coming from the jets shows primarily CO2, carbon dioxide and particles of dust and ice. Media coverage included, but was not limited to, Nature, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Digital Journal, Space.com, RedOrbit, the Baltimore Sun and the Los Angeles Times. Prior to the fly-by, on October 21, The International Astronomical Union released an IAUCS Circular (a series of postcard notices giving information about astronomical phenomena requiring prompt dissemination) on the team's observations that indicated that cyanide released by the comet increased by a factor of five over an eight day period in September without any increase in dust emissions.

Michael A'Hearn (Astronomy) was quoted in Space.com, November 1, in an article on the possibility of extraterrestrial mining operations discussed at the recent Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement conference.

Ashok Agrawala (Computer Science and UMIACS). Agrawala's work on improving campus safety through Video 911 receives wide acclaim in the Chronicle of Higher Education <http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/researchers-app-will-let-students-call-in-an-emergency-via-videophone/28039> , the Diamondback <http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/police-may-employ-cell-phone-videos-to-track-crime-1.1748138> , and on WTOP <http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&amp;sid=2107461> , November 5.

Ben Bederson (Computer Science and UMIACS) was quoted in MIT News, November 8, in an article on the Microsoft Kinect. He was also quoted in MIT Technology Review, October 27, in an article on the best-paper prize (VizWiz) and the best student paper prize (Soylent) awarded at the ACM's 23rd Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Ben was a guest on the Kojo Nnamdi show (WAMU) on November 23, discussing trends in electronic communications motivated by the Facebook announcement of their new messaging platform.

Charles Clark (Physics, IPST and JQI) was quoted in WIRED Magazine, September 8, MSNBC.com and several other media outlets following the publication of a NIST Technical Note on JQI team's measurement of hazardous leakage of infrared radiation from inexpensive green laser pointers.

Avis Cohen (Biology) was quoted in Scientific Computing, October 21, in an article on research conducted in her lab with (then) post-doctoral researcher Eric Tytell. The research, which resulted in a computational model of a swimming fish that will help design medical prosthetics for humans, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 18. Other media coverage includes articles in Softpedia, Asian News International, Daily Tech, the Engineer and US News & World Report.

Rita Colwell (UMIACS and CBCB) was quoted on NPR's Health blog, October 26, in an article on the outbreak of cholera in Haiti. A follow-up article appeared in Circle of Blue Waternews, November 11.

Galen Dively (Entomology) was quoted in Voice of America <http://www.voanews.com/english/news/environment/Keeping-the-Buzz-in-the-Beehive-107029438.html> , November 10, in an article and video segment on potential causes of honeybee colony collapse disorder.

Bryan Eichhorn (Chemistry and Biochemistry), was quoted in NanoWerk, October 5, in an article on a team of scientists, led by Eichhorn, using a new kind of XPS, called ambient-pressure XPS, to examine every feature of a working solid oxide electrochemical cell. "…We designed and fabricated solid oxide electrochemical cells that provide precise dimensional control of all the components, while providing full optical access to the entire cell from anode to cathode." A follow-up article appeared in Red Orbit, October 6.

Michael E. Fisher (Physics and IPST) was the subject of an article published in the Latin American Journal of Physics, September edition. The interview occurred during his trip to Madrid (June 2010) to receive the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences. Follow-up articles appeared in One India, Global Security Newswire and Medical News Today.

Victor Granatstein (IREAP and ECE) and Gregory Nusinovich (IREAP), in an article in the Journal of Applied Physics <http://jap.aip.org/resource/1/japiau/v108/i6/p063304_s1> , have proposed a scheme for detecting a concealed source of radioactive material without searching shipping containers one by one.

Tom Holtz (Geology) was quoted in New Scientist and Discovery News, October, in articles on recent research showing that Tyrannosaurus rex was a cannibal. He was also quoted in the St. Louis Dispatch and Discovery News in articles on the discovery that dinosaurs were taller than previously thought. The new study found that cartilage extended the limbs of these animals by up to a foot in length. In USA Today, October 12, Holtz was quoted on the finding of five nearly complete sauropod skeletons, found at the Dana Quarry, WY.

Bruce Kane (Physics and JQI) was quoted in Sify, October 4, in an article on his recent research published in the Journal of Physical Review B. Kane sprayed charged graphene flakes a micrometer wide into a vacuum chamber where the flakes were trapped in mid-air by oscillating electric fields. He then set them spinning using a light beam that is circularly polarized with the result that the flakes started spinning at 60 million rotations per minute.

Dan Lathrop (Physics, Geology, IREAP and IPST) was quoted in the Washington Post, October 11, in an article on the depletion of the world's supply of helium. A follow-up article appeared in the Boston Globe, October 17.

Hey-Kyoung Lee (Biology) was quoted in The Times of India, October 14, in an article on her research team having shown that they may be able to eliminate debilitating side effects caused by a promising Alzheimer's drug by stimulating the brain's nicotine receptors. A paper describing their breakthrough appears in the October issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.

Jian Yang Li (Astronomy) was quoted in the PhysOrg, October 8, in an article on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope capturing images of the large asteroid Vesta that will help scientists refine plans for the Dawn spacecraft's rendezvous with Vesta in July 2011. The story was also picked up by the Baltimore Business Journal, USAToday and ScienceDaily.

Stacy McGaugh (Astronomy) was quoted in ScienceNow, November 8, in an article on globular clusters (giant balls of hundreds of thousands of tightly spaced, very long-lived stars) and the elimination of dark matter as an ingredient in their formation.

Cole Miller (Astronomy) was quoted in the online versions of Science News, Scientific American and Wired Magazine on the discovery of an unusually massive neutron star reported in Nature, October 28. Miller also wrote the accompanying Nature News and Views article, "Weighing in on Neutron Stars."

Johnpierre Paglione (Physics). ScienceNews, November 6, published a news article on iron-based superconductors that featured research conducted in Paglione's laboratory. The article summarizes the recent Review Article published in Nature Physics, authored by Paglione and Richard Green (Physics).

Margaret Palmer (Entomology) was mentioned in a Nature <http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v468/n7323/full/468476a.html> editorial, November 25, for helping to bring international attention to the environmental problems of mountaintop mining, impacting U.S. regulations of the practice.

Diann Prosser (MEES graduate student) was quoted in Science <http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6002/313.full> , October 15, in an article on tracking a lethal bird flu (H5N1) in China using GPS transmitters to monitor the migration of wild birds.

Michael Raupp (Entomology) was featured in a USA Today video segment <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2010-11-10-stink-bugs_N.htm> , November 10, on the stink bug invasion.

Michael Raupp and Nancy Breisch (Entomology) were quoted in The Sentinel <http://www.thesentinel.com/pgs/Bed-Bugs> , November 17, in an article on bed bugs.

Roald Sagdeev (Physics and IPST), Genndy Milikh (Astronomy) and Giri Nandikotkur (Physics) et al. had their paper "Hydrogen Mapping of the Lunar South Pole Using the LRO Neutron Detector Experiment LEND" published in a special NASA-LCROS issue of Science Magazine, October 22.

Steven Salzberg (Computer Science and UMIACS) was quoted in The New York Times, November 1, in an article discussing the recent Justice Department amicus curiae brief stating that human genes are not patentable. The story was also covered by the Baltimore Sun, Forbes Magazine, Genomics Law Report, and the Daily Finance.

Storykit, a freely available NSF-funded interactive app for the iPad and iPhone that allows children to read, edit and share their favorite storybook classic was reviewed on News 8, Austin, TX on October 2. Storykit was designed in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab by Ben Bederson(Computer Science and UMIACS), Allison Druin (UMIACS and CLIS) and graduate students as a basis for studying how mobile devices can be a conduit for children to work with their families by doing creative and educational activities.

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Todd Aven (1986 B.S. Physics), Vice President-Information Security, was named Technology Fellow by his employer, Goldman Sachs & Co.

Squarespace Inc., founded by alumnus Anthony Casalena (2005 B.S. Computer Science) was the subject of an article in Crain's New York Business, November 28, referring to the $38.5 million raised by Squarespace in July 2010.

Frederick Strauch (2004 Ph.D. Physics, advisor Alex Dragt), has been awarded an NSF grant in the amount of $90,057 in support of his project "Control and Measurement of Coupled Mesoscopic Quantum Systems." Strauch is an Assistant Professor of Physics, Williams College in Massachusetts.

Barry Summers (1990 M.A. Applied Mathematics) is the Associate Director of Sales and Marketing Analytics at Bracco Diagnostics in Princeton, NJ. Previously Barry was Manager of Data Validation and Governance at Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceutica."

Nguyen Dao Vu (2009 B.S. Biochemistry) has accepted a position as Research Association in the Analytical Services Division, Human Genome Sciences, Rockville, MD.

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Astronomy Department – Dr. Stuart Vogel, Chair
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Department – Dr. James Carton, Chair
Biology – Dr. Gerald Wilkinson, Chair
Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics – Dr. Norma Andrews, Chair
Chemistry and Biochemistry – Dr. Michael Doyle, Chair
Computer Science Department – Dr. Larry Davis, Chair
Geology Department – Dr. Michael Brown, Chair
Entomology – Dr. Charles Mitter, Chair
Mathematics Department – Dr. James Yorke, Chair
Physics Department – Dr. Drew Baden, Chair
CSCAMM – Dr. Eitan Tadmor, Director
ESSIC – Dr. Tony Busalacchi, Director
IPST – Dr. Rajarshi Roy, Director
IREAP – Dr. Dan Lathrop, Director
MPRI – Dr. David Mosser, Director
UMIACS – Dr. Amitabh Varshney, Director

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