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Prof. Frederic A. Rasio appointed as editor of The Atrophysical Journal Letters

Prof. Frederic A. Rasio has been appointed as the next editor of The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The mission of the letters section is to allow "astrophysicists to rapidly publish short notices of significant original research."

Rasio began serving as editor on January 1st, 2013.

Full article from Northwestern News Center here.

Heidi Schellman appointed to H Commision of Particles and Fields

Prof. Heidi Schellman has been appointed as U.S.representative on the H Commission of Particles and Fields (C11) of IUPAP, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

The mandate of C11 is "To promote the exchange of information and views among the members of the international scientific community in the general field of Particles and Fields".

Professors Vicky Kalogera and Ian Low receive Simons Fellowships

Congratulations to Professors Vicky Kalogera and Ian Low, who received Simons Fellowships to support sabbatical leaves in 2013.  The mission of the Simons Foundation is "to advance the frontiers of research in the basic sciences and mathematics," and " to promote a deeper, more fundamental understanding of our world."

Prof. Adilson Motter made Full Professor

Congratulations to Prof. Adilson Motter, who has been promoted to full professor.

Prof. Chris Jacobsen elected to American Physical Society Fellowship.

The American Physical Society has elected Prof. Chris Jacobsen as a Fellow. The society limits the number of fellows to one half of one percent of the society's membership.

The APS council cited his “seminal contributions to x-ray microscopy” when they elected him in November, 2011.

Full Story from Argonne National Lab here.

Andrew Kobach recognized for

work with Z bosons

Recent work by graduate student Andrew Kobach was featured as Fermilab's Result of the Week. Fermilab reports that Kobach and others "looked for evidence of the Z boson directly emitting light, a process that is not part of the Standard Model." The team found no evidence of interactions between Z bosons and photons, which "produced stringent limits on Z boson and photon couplings."

Full analysis from Fermilab here.

NU graduate Sahal Yacoob has accepted a position as a Lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in his home town of Durban, South Africa. Sahal will join the growing South African consortium on the ATLAS experiment at CERN while building a new research group at UKZN. Sahal received his PhD from Northwestern in 2010, and was an active member of the NU competitive and performance ballroom dance teams (BLAST) during his time at NU.

NASA Langley Aerospace Engineer Jill Lynette Hanna Prince received the Women in Aerospace Achievement Award award October 26, 2010. Four current NASA leaders and one retiree were recognized for their work by Women in Aerospace. The event celebrates women's professional excellence in aerospace and honors women who have made outstanding contributions to the aerospace community.

Dr. Prince received her BA in Physics & Astronomy from Northwestern in 1999.  While here, she worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant for Prof. Giles Novak.