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Awards:
2008
Dean's Outstanding Non-Exempt Employee Award
Mr. Ed Cole,
Engineering Tech III in IPST, has been selected as the recipient of the
2008 Dean's Outstanding Non-Exempt Employee Award. This honor is in recognition
of his exceptional service and professionalism in his duties for IPST
since starting employment in 1990.
Arpita
Upadhyaya is a 2008 Sloan Research Fellowship Award Winner.
Assistant Professor
Arpita Upadhyaya of IPST/Physics was among the list of 2008 Sloan
Research Fellowship Award Winners. These awards are intended to enhance
the careers of the very best young faculty members in science. A total
of 118 fellowships are awarded annually. For more information, visit:
http://www.sloan.org/programs/scitech_fellowships.shtml
Thomas D. Wilkerson, Professor Emeritus, Awarded
2007 Utah Governor's Medal for Science and Technology
Utah State University research professor Tom Wilkerson, a senior scientist
with the university's Space Dynamics Laboratory, is the recipient of a
2007 Utah Governor's Medal for Science and Technology. He received
the award during a ceremony hosted by Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. at Salt Lake
City 's Clark Planetarium Nov. 13. It is the highest honor awarded by
Utah for scientific and technological achievements. Prof. Wilkerson
taught Physics and Mathematics at the Univesity of Maryland for 34 years,
and was a member of the Institute.
2007 Poole and Kent Teaching Award for Senior Faculty
Mikhail Anisimov is the winner of this year's Poole and Kent Teaching
Award for Senior Faculty.
Comments by Sheryl Ehrman, Selection Committee: To me, Mikhail is
such great example of a true scholar and educator who both recognizes
the potential of all of our students and helps them however
he can to achieve their goals. And by all students, I mean
not just the very bright ones that would excel anywhere with minimal input
from us, but also the students who are earnest, curious, and willing to
work hard.
Eitan Tadmor, Distinguished University Professor
Professor Tadmor has been awarded the title of Distinguished University
Professor.
This award is in recognition of his work in the area of numerical analysis
of time-dependent problems and is the highest academic honor that our
university confers upon a faculty member. He is a member of the
Department of Mathematics; Institute for Physical Science and Technology;
and Director, Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling.
Distinguished Scholar Teacher Award 2005-2006
Professor Howard Milchberg has been selected to be one of the
2005-2006 Distinguished Scholar-Teachers at the University of Maryland
at College Park.
http://www.faculty.umd.edu/FacAwards/dstlist.html
Prizes:Monroe
H. Martin Prize
The Monroe H. Martin Prize was established to commemorate the
achievements of the late Professor Emeritus Monroe H. Martin, former Director
of the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics, and Chair
of the Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland.
Previous prize winners are Neil E. Berger, Department of Mathematics,
University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (1975); Marshall Slemrod,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1980); Jonathan Goodman, Courant Institute
of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (1985); Marek R. Rychlik,
Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona (1990); Andrew M. Stuart,
Division of Applied Mechanics, Stanford University (1995); Zhihong Xia,
Center for Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Studies, Georgia Institute
of Technology (1995); Yury Grabovsky, Department of Mathematics, Temple
University (2000); Robert J. McCann, Department of Mathematics, University
of Toronto (2000); C. Sinan Güntürk, Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences, New York University (2005); and Jared Tanner, Statistics Department,
Stanford University (2005).
J. R. Dorfman Prize for Undergraduate Research
The J.
R. Dorfman Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Research was established
in 1989 to honor Professor J. Robert Dorfman of the Department of Physics
and the Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology upon the occasion
of his resignation as Dean of the College and his appointment as Vice
President for Academic Affairs and Provost.
APS Dissertation
Award in Plasma Physics
Congratulations to Dr.
Kiyong Kim, recent graduate of the University
of Maryland Department of Physics and former student of Professor
Howard Milchberg (IPST and ECE)! Dr. Kim has won the 2004
American Physical Society Dissertation Award in Plasma Physics for his
exceptional research conducted in the Institute for Physical Sciences
and Technology (IPST). He is the second winner from the University of
Maryland. Dr. Tom Clark, also a former student of Dr. Milchberg's
working in IPST, was the 1999 recipient. Maryland's Intense Laser Matter
Interactions research group, led by Dr. Milchberg, is the only research
group to win the award more than once since the award was established
in 1986.
4/15/08
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