Congratulations to Professor John M. Wahr, who has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences! The announcement was delivered on Tuesday, May 2, 2012.

“It’s a great honor to be recognized by my peers,” Wahr said.

John Wahr is a Professor of Physics, Fellow of CIRES, a College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction, and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. He has been awarded the prestigious Vening Meinesz Medal from the European Geosciences Union, and the Charles A. Whitten Award, Bowie Lectureship, and the James B. Macelwane Award from the American Geophysical Union.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Alysia Marino for being named by President Obama as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The announcement was delivered on Monday, September 27th.

Marino was honored for her accomplishments in the study of neutrino properties and the development of diagnostic tools that may be used to help design future neutrino beam facilities, as well as for her outstanding mentoring of graduate students. The PECASE award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers who are early in their independent research careers.

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