France A. Córdova, an astrophysicist and vice chancellor for research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will become chancellor of UC Riverside on 1 July. She replaces Raymond L. Orbach, who was sworn in this past March as the director of the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science (see Physics Today, Physics Today 0031-9228 55 5 2002 26 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1485570 May 2002, page 26 ). Before coming to UCSB in 1996, Córdova was chief scientist at NASA.
John Iliopoulos will become the first recipient of the Bodossaki Foundation’s Aristeio Bodossaki Prize when it is awarded this month at a ceremony in Athens, Greece. Iliopoulos, director of research with the theoretical physics laboratory at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, is being honored for his “outstanding contributions to the theory of interactions of elementary particles.” The award is accompanied by a cash prize of ά150 000 (about...