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November 2006Prof Guido Mueller has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2006 International Educator of the Year Award (junior category). Guido received his award at a ceremony held at the Keene Faculty Center. Mueller's research program focuses on ground-based and space-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors and is a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) collaboration. His gravitational wave research group at UF has raised UF's reputation significantly and enables UF to compete with MIT and Caltech for funding and students. Dr. Mueller has an outstanding record of grantsmanship for a junior faculty member that almost always includes international collaboration. He has developed one of the few programs in physics that provides international experiences for students. He collaborates with colleagues around the world to achieve the scientific goal of detecting gravitational waves, routinely organizing workshops, conferences and exchanges.