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JQI Fellow and Assistant Professor of physics Vladimir Manucharyan has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. His proposal, entitled “Realizing the ultrastrong coupling regime of quantum electrodynamics using high-impedance Josephson superconducting circuits,” will receive five years of funding. NSF funds research in science and engineering through grants, contracts and cooperative agreements.

For more information on NSF Awards visit: http://www.nsf.gov/about/

JQI Fellows Christopher Monroe and Victor Yakovenko, were recognized as mentors of the high-achieving students Geoffrey Ji and Zachary Siegel (respectively), who were named the 2014-2015 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars. Ji currently works ion trap quantum information in Monroe's group and Siegel works on ultracold atomic gases with Trey Porto.

JQI fellow Edo Waks (IREAP, JQI and ECE) was selected as the winner of the Clark School Junior Faculty Research Award. The award recognizes an exceptional young faculty member (at or below the associate professor rank) for exemplary quality and impact of research.

Waks research group focuses on nanophotonics with quantum dots. For more information, visit his group site.

Steve Rolston has been choosen as the recipient of the Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award for 2014. The prestigious award recognizes a faculty member who has made exceptional contributions to the quality of undergraduate education at the university.