Three Faculty Win Awards
Professor Robert Kennicutt, Ass't Professor Erika Hamden, and Mirror Lab Project Scientist Buddy Martin have recently been recognized with awards.
Rob, who recently rejoined us after a decade in Cambridge, UK, has won two recent awards. The first is from the National Academy of Sciences and is called the 2019 NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing. The second is from the RAS, one of the 2019 Gold Medals of the Royal Astronomical Society. The UA press release can be found HERE.
Assistant Professor Erika Hamden was recently named a TED2019 Fellow. You can read the press release HERE.
Faculty member Hubert (Buddy) Martin, Project Scientist of the Mirror Polishing Program at the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab, received the SPIE's A.E. Conrady Award. We quote the citation here: "Dr. Buddy Martin has been awarded the A.E. Conrady Award in Optical Engineering for his contributions to the polishing of large mirrors, including those for the GMT. Dr. Martin has been the guiding hand in the polishing of the GMT mirrors." You can find the press release HERE.
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