[Cuga] Note for GHP members- A message from John Arrington

[Lorelei Chopard]

The GHP Executive Committee is pleased to announce the biennial call for
nominations for the American Physical Society Dissertation Award in Hadronic Physics.

The award, $1000 and a travel allowance of up to $1500 to attend the
biennial GHP meeting, will be presented at the April 2015 GHP Meeting in
Baltimore, MD.

Nominations should be sent to
Mathias Burkhardt <burkardt at nmsu.edu>
Chair of GHP and Chair of the Dissertation Award Committee, by 1 October 2014.

Other committee members are Christine Aidala (Ann Arbor), Ian Cloet
(ANL), Susan Schadmand (FZ-Juelich) and Ramona Vogt (LLNL/UC Davis).
Contact the executive committee, ghpexec at anl.gov, for further information.

If you know of a deserving student who has graduated or will graduate in
the two-year period preceding the nomination deadline, please see
http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/dissertation/hadronic.cfm
for more details about eligibility and the contents of the nomination
package.  The student should also be a GHP member at the time of
nomination, it's free for students to join.

The nominations will be evaluated based on: the quality of the written
dissertation (40%), the contribution of the student to the research
(30%), the impact of the work (15%), and the broader involvement of the
student in the community (15%).