Philip H. Bucksbaum has joined the faculty of Stanford University to direct the new Ultrafast Science Center, a partnership between Stanford and the US Department of Energy. Bucksbaum will also be a professor at SLAC and in Stanford’s applied physics department. Through the winter term he is continuing as the Peter Franken Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan, where he has been since 1990. Bucksbaum was named to his new post last October.

Michael L. Coats has been named director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, replacing Jefferson D. Howell Jr, who is on assignment as a visiting professor to the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. A former astronaut, Coats began his new position last November and is responsible for overseeing the center, which is NASA’s primary operations center for space flight. Coats is the ninth...

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