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Gail Houston Named Outstanding New Mexico Woman
The New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women notified Gail Turley Houton, professor and chair, UNM Department of English, that she is one of 20 women chosen for the 26th Annual Governor’s Award for Outstanding New Mexico Woman. A banquet to honor the awardees is set for Friday, May 6 at the Hotel Albuquerque in Old Town.

Houston was nominated by a group of UNM faculty including Political Science Professor Deborah McFarlane, Communication & Journalism Professor Karen Foss, Professor Emerita of English Helen Damico and Jim Burbank, lecturer, Department of English, and others. [MORE]

Arts and Sciences faculty honored

Regents Professor of Biology Dr. Maggie Werner-Washburne is being honored with the 2011 Distinguished Scientist Award by the Harvard Foundation. The award recognizes this internationally noted scientist for her scientific achievements and for promoting and upholding the standards of sciences to improve and serve our diverse society. Dr. Werner-Washburne will travel to Harvard University in April to receive this award.

Dr. Philip May, Sociology Professor and principal investigator for the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions, has been chosen for the most prestigious faculty honor at UNM. He will deliver the 56th Annual Research Lecture on Tuesday, Mar. 29, at 6 p.m. at the Continuing Ed auditorium.

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Carlton Caves

Professor Caves has been named the 2011 recipient of the Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America (OSA). As such he is being recognized for germinal contributions in quantum optics and information theory, including the foundations of quantum noise, the role of entanglement in quantum information processing, and the fundamental limits of quantum measurement.

The Award will be presented at OSA's Annual Meeting in San Jose, California, on October 17.

The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) announces prestigious invitation

Congratulations to Physics major Cristhian Carrillo, who has been working with Professor Sally Seidel and has now been invited to present a poster on his research at the annual Posters on the Hill event, sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), on April 13.

Cristhian will travel to Washington, DC to present his work, titled "Development of Radiation Hard Silicon Sensors for Use at the Large Hadron Collider and Beyond."

This national competition attracted almost 700 applicants, of which 74 were successful. Invitations to the poster session will be sent by CUR to the offices of all members of the US Congress and Senate as well as relevant federal agencies including the Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Science Foundation.

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