Stony Brook University Student Awarded 2004 Scharff-Goldhaber Prize
May 7, 2004
Mirna Lerotic
Upton, NY — Mirna Lerotic, a student at Stony Brook University (SBU), accepts the 2004 Scharff-Goldhaber Prize from Maurice Goldhaber, Scientist Emeritus at the U.S. Department of Energy_s Brookhaven National Laboratory and widower of Gertrude-Scharff Goldhaber, for whom the $1,000 award was named.
Administered by Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS), the Scharff-Goldhaber Prize was established to recognize substantial promise and accomplishment by women graduate students in physics who are enrolled at SBU or who are performing their thesis research at Brookhaven Lab. In 1950, Scharff-Goldhaber became the first woman Ph.D. physicist appointed to the Brookhaven staff, and, later, she became a founding member of BWIS.
Lerotic earned her undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Zagreb in Croatia, and she hopes to pursue a career in research after she earns her doctorate at SBU, which she expects to do by 2005. Lerotic gave a talk on her winning research paper, titled "Cluster Analysis in Spectromicroscopy," at the April 21 ceremony at Brookhaven.
Also pictured are Vinita Ghosh (left), a physicist who is a member of the BWIS scholarship committee; and Chris Jacobsen, Lerotic_s advisor in the x-ray microscopy group at SBU Physics and Astronomy Department.
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