Physics prof gets DOE award
Vittorio Paolone, associate professor of physics, has been awarded an "Outstanding Junior Investigator Award" by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Division of High Energy Physics.
The award is one of only five given this year by the DOE. Such awards are given to promising non-tenured physicists who demonstrate significant contributions to high-energy physics and leadership in the field.
Winners are selected by peer review on the basis of technical and scientific merit.
Paolone has been a faculty member here since January. Previously, he worked at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago on the search for the tau neutrino, the last undetected of the 12 fundamental particles that are the building blocks of the universe.
The award includes $80,000 in research funds per year for three years to support Paolone's work.
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