STUDENT AWARDS
December 2008
Former High Energy Theory student, Kyoungchul Kong (now finishing his first postdoc at Fermilab), has been awarded an LHC Theory Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship in the amount of $150,000 over two years. The money can be used for salary and travel expenses and is portable (in case he also gets a faculty position within the next two years).

This is only the second year that this award is being given. There is only one such postdoctoral fellowship each year (in addition, there are several graduate fellowships at 40k each). The awards are made by a selection committee, through a national competition.

View last year's press release for the inaugural LHC-TI awards at http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/dec07/lhc_theory.html
January 2009
Congratulations to Physics student, Chao Cao (chair Hai-Ping Cheng), who has been awarded the 2008 Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics.
April 2008
Francisco Rojas has been selected to receive a University of Florida 2007-2008 Graduate Student Teaching Award. He is one out of 22 graduate students in the university to receive such recognition this year. Francisco will receive the award at a reception on April 24th, and he will also be recognized during the spring commencement ceremony.