Stony Brook University Student Awarded 2005 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize
July 6, 2005
UPTON, NY - Anne Sickles (center, front), a graduate student at Stony Brook University (SBU), has been awarded the 2005 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize, consisting of a framed certificate and $1,000. Administered by Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS), the 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 the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Established in 1992, the prize honors the outstanding contributions of the late nuclear physicist Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber, who, in 1950, became the first woman Ph.D. physicist appointed to the Brookhaven staff. She became a founding member of BWIS.
Sickles earned her B.S. in physics from Gonzaga University in Washington State in 2001, and she expects to earn her doctorate from SBU by September 2005. She has done her thesis work at the PHENIX detector at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), where physicists from around the world study a type of matter that has not existed since the beginning of the universe. At the award ceremony, Sickles gave a brief talk on her research, titled, "Jets and the Search for Quark-Gluon Plasma at RHIC."
With Sickles, (from left, front) are Maurice Goldhaber, Scientist Emeritus at Brookhaven Lab, and the widower of Gertrude-Scharff Goldhaber; Pat Williams, BWIS Coordinator; (from left, back) Barbara Jacak, Sickles' thesis advisor at SBU; Alfred Goldhaber, Professor in the C.N. Yang Institute of Theoretical Physics at SBU and son of Maurice and Gertrude Goldhaber; and Vinita Ghosh, BWIS Scholarship Committee.
NOTE TO LOCAL EDITORS: Anne Sickles is a resident of Miller Place, NY.
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