Robert Dynes will become president of the University of California’s nine-campus system in October. Dynes, chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, will succeed Richard Atkinson, who is retiring after eight years in the position.
In July, Richard G. Kron became the third director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a collaboration of 13 institutions worldwide and more than 200 astronomers working to map, in detail, one-fourth of the entire sky. Kron, a professor in the University of Chicago’s department of astronomy and astrophysics and a scientist at Fermilab, succeeds John Peoples, who retired on 30 June.
The Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences bestowed the M. A. Markov Prize on Thomas J. Bowles, Vladimir Gavrin, and Vadim Kuzmin at a two-day symposium at the institute in Moscow this past May. The award recognizes the trio for their “outstanding contributions to...
