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      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><b><span
            style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jianwei
            Qiu to become Theory Center Director at Jefferson Lab<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span
          style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We
          are delighted to announce that Jianwei Qiu, a world renowned
          expert in quantum chromodynamics has accepted the appointment
          as Director of the Theory Center and will join the laboratory
          in early Fall. Jianwei received his Ph. D. from Columbia
          University where his supervisor was Al Mueller. As a postdoc,
          he worked at Argonne National Lab where Ed Berger and Dennis
          Sivers were prominent collaborators; and at the Yang Institute
          at Stony Brook University where Jianwei completed some very
          important work with George Sterman. Jianwei spent more than
          twenty years on the faculty of Iowa State University, and
          during the past six years he has been a prominent member of
          the theory group at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Jianwei
          was one of the editors and principal authors of the white
          paper which lays out the physics program achievable at a
          future electron ion collider. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span
          style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
          search was conducted by a distinguished committee consisting
          of Joe Carlson and Bob McKeown (co-chairs), Charlotte Elster,
          Franz Gross, Frithjof Karsch, Krishna Rajagopal, and Feng
          Yuan. We are grateful to them for their efforts on behalf of
          Jefferson Lab.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:right" align="right"><span
          style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hugh
          Montgomery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:right" align="right"><span
          style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">9/1/2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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