Faculty News and Honors

Sidney Nagel, the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Physics, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Angela Olinto, Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, has been named Chairperson of that department.

David MacQueen, Professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been appointed Chairman of that department.

Yoishiro Nambu, the Henry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics, has been awarded the N. Bogoliubov Prize from the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research for his fundamental contribution to the theory of color quarks.

Rustem Ismagilov, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, has received an award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for his work using microfluidics to control chemical systems in time. He also received a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research.

Chuan He, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, was selected as a 2003 Searle Scholar.

Michael Hopkins, Professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been appointed Chairman of that department for a three-year term.

Pavel (Paul) Wiegmann, Professor in the Department of Physics, the James Franck Institute, and the Enrico Fermi Institute, has received the Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Sergey Kozmin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow for 2003.

Hisashi Yamamoto, Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the College, received the prestigious "Medal with Purple Ribbon" from His Majesty the Emperor of Japan in November 2002.

Laurie Butler, Professor in the Department of Chemistry, the James Franck Institute, and the College, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society Division of Chemical Physics for her fundamental and pioneering contributions to the understanding of non-adiabatic effects in molecular photophysics and photoreactivity.

Heinrich Jaeger, Professor in the Department of Physics, the James Franck Institute, and the College, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society Division of Condensed Matter Physics for his fundamental contributions to the study of granular systems, mesoscopic self-assembly, and flux flow in superconductors.

James Cronin, Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics, has been elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.

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