Persis Drell and spouse Jim Welch both joined SLAC this spring. Drell is the associate director of SLAC’s research division and Welch is an accelerator physicist. Both previously worked at Cornell University’s laboratory of nuclear studies. She was the deputy director of the lab and he was a senior research associate.
Robert Callender will become the editor of Biophysical Journal on 1 July, succeeding Peter Moore, who has been editor since 1997. Callender, a professor of biochemistry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, located in New York, will serve until 2007.
Earlier this year, Jacqueline N. Hewitt became the director of the Center for Space Research at MIT. She succeeds Claude R. Canizares, who is now an associate provost at MIT.
Herwig Kogelnik and Allan Snyder have jointly won the 2001 Marconi International Fellowship Award, presented in December by the Marconi Foundation. According to...
