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CREAM STATUS (Cosmic Ray Energetics
and Mass)
Eun-Suk Seo, Physics and
IPST , heads the Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass (CREAM) experiment, which
received recognition on Spaceref.com,
the Palestine Herald and NSF.gov on January
7 as the experiment reached a new milestone in conducting scientific observations
from balloons by launching and operating three long-duration flights within
a single Antarctic summer. Seo leads a team of scientists from Maryland
's Institute for Physical Science & Technology, NASA and the NSF.
The investigation searches for characteristic changes in elemental composition
and energy spectra of very high-energy cosmic rays that might be associated
with a particle acceleration limit in supernovae.
Scientific
Balloons Achieve Antarctic Flight Record NSF Press Release 08-001,
January 4, 2008
http://cosmicray.umd.edu/homepage
or
http://cosmicray.umd.edu/cream/cream.html
News
Items:
- National Academy of Science 2007 Election
Katepalli Sreenivasan has been elected a member of NAS. He is
now a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the NAS.
Note: The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election
of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 12 countries in recognition
of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
The election was held during the business session of the 144th annual
meeting of the Academy. Those elected bring the total number of active
members to 2,025. Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the Academy,
with citizenship outside the United States . Today's election brings
the total number of foreign associates to 387.
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=05012007
- Dr.
Murthy Gudipati - Remarks:
NASA
News Release 07-17AR, April 6, 2007.
NASA finds Evidence or New Molecular Structure in Space.
For more information, please visit:
http://spacescience.arc.nasa.gov/redglow/
http://spacescience.arc.nasa.gov/highlights/
For more information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/home
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Larry Lutz
Retires:
http://www.outlook.umd.edu/article.cfm?id=2421
- Professors
Eugenia Kalnay and Glenn Mason of IPST were elected Fellows of the American
Geophysical Union.
The number of Fellows elected each year is limited to no more than 0.1%
of the total membership of AGU.
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Professor James Drake has been elected to the Executive Board
of the American Physical Society (APS) by the APS Council,
for a two year term.
Each
year a small number of members of the Council are elected by the Council
to serve on the Board, which sets policy for the APS.
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Professor Emeritus Ivo Babuska has been elected to the National Academy
of Engineering, a wonderful honor and long overdue recognition
of his many contributions. Professor Babuska was in IPST and the Department
of Mathematics for thirty years and had a profound influence on applied
mathematics at the University of Maryland, where, in the course of his
research, he mentored many graduate students. See http://chronicle.com/free/2005/02/2005021409n.htm
Updated
2/11/08
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