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Jack Tueller Passes

02/20/2013
Dr Jack Tueller from the Astroparticle Physics Lab (661) in the Astrophysics Division passed away February 20, 2012 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Jack came to Goddard in 1979 after a PhD with advisor Martin Israel at Washington University, St. Louis. He successfully flew his own cosmic ray thesis balloon instrument as a graduate student. At Goddard he pursued gamma-ray astronomy and became a world-renowned experimental astrophysicist. He worked with Bonnard Teegarden on the LEGS and GRIS balloon spectrometers and became the Principal Investigator for GRIS in 1993. GRIS was a highly successful payload with 8 successful flights and scientific discoveries of gamma-ray line emission from SN 1987A and the distribution of positron annihilation line emission from the galactic center region. For these findings, he shared in the Lindsay award in 1991. Jack was recently leading the InFOCuS balloon instrument for hard X-ray focusing science. He was the Project Scientist for NASA's balloon program. He was also highly active in the analysis of hard X-ray survey data from the BAT instrument on Swift. Jack was an ebullient and happy character who was the life of whatever activity he was involved with. Jack will be greatly missed by us all.

Goddard View

02/07/2013
Volume 9, Issue 1 - The James Webb Space Telescope marked another year of significant progress in 2012 as flight instrumentation was completed and delivered to NASA.

2012 Robert H. Goddard Awards for ASD

02/06/2013
Robert H. Goddard Award of Merit (Goddard's highest award): Bruce Woodgate (667)
Citation:  For exceptional career achievements in science and service to Goddard and NASA
Science: Timothy Kallman (662) - Citation: For his outstanding performance as GEMS Project Scientist
Eliahu Dwek (665) - Citation: For developing new, detailed, and observationally confirmed models of the formation, evolution, and destruction of cosmic dust grains, from supernovae to shock waves and star-forming regions.
Jane Rigby (665) - Citation: For using gravitational lensing to map a distant galaxy in unprecedented detail.
HEASARC Team (660.1) - [Team list: Alan Smale, Tom McGlynn, Bill Pence, Frank Marshall, Lorella Angelini, Dave Chuss, Phil Newman, Keith Arnaud, Mike Corcoran, Steve Drake, Steve Sturner, Laura McDonald, Ed Sabol, Craig Gordon, Bryan Irby, Pan Chai, Urmila Prasad, Michael Greason] Citation: For enabling new science results from NASA missions by providing high quality software for data search, retrieval and analysis through the HEASARC data archive research center
Safety: Curtis Odell (660) - Citation: For thorough and detailed investigation into the root cause of the laboratory fire in Building 34, Room C259, and his efforts to define and implement a recovery plan.
Mentoring: Joan Centrella (660) - Citation: For her demonstrated commitment to mentoring women scientists at all stages of their careers, which has resulted in a positive and supportive professional environment for all.
Outreach: Frank Reddy (660) - Citation: For outstanding dedication to public outreach through the media, including exceptional scientific writing and coordination with NASA video producers, resulting in high-impact Astrophysics press releases and features.

Congratulations to Alice Harding

01/11/2013
Dr Alice Harding has been awarded the American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division Rossi Prize. The award is made jointly to Alice and Dr Roger Romani from Stanford University. The citation reads "To Alice K Harding and Roger W. Romani for establishing a theoretical framework for understanding gamma-ray pulsars."

Goddard View

12/07/2012
Volume 8, Issue 11 - Dr. Eli Dwek and Dr. Neil Gehrels of Goddard, and Dr. Lynn Cominsky of NASA’s Fermi and Swift missions have been named as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The election of an AAAS fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.

Congratulations to new AAAS Fellows

11/30/2012
Dr. Eli Dwek and Dr. Neil Gehrels in  have been named as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Eli's citation reads "for his distinguished contributions to the theory of the evolution and nature of interstellar dust grains, including formation and destruction, emission and absorption of light, and unified models of observations." Neil's "for his leadership on the Swift, Compton, Integral, and future dark energy missions."

Congratulations to new APS Fellow

11/26/2012
Please congratulate Dr. Demos Kazanas for his election to Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). The citation reads "For diverse contributions to Astrophysics, ranging from a 1980 independent resolution, of the cosmological horizon problem using the vacuum energy of spontaneously broken gauge theory -- to the recent idea that AGN appearance depends on the properties of MHD winds launched from their accretion disks."

Congratulations to RIck Lyon!

11/08/2012
Please congratulate Rick Lyon (667) for receiving the James Kerley Award, along with other members of the wavefront sensing group in the Optics Branch.

This award is presented annually by Goddard's Innovative Partnerships Office.  Rick is being honored "for his enthusiasm and technical leadership in technology development and his support in outreaching to industry for commercial and other Government Agency applications of the Wavefront Sensing suite of technologies". 

Fall 2012 CuttingEdge

10/31/2012
Michael McElwain (667) and Karl Stapelfeldt (667) are featured in the Fall 2012 issue of the CuttingEdge.

Congratulations to John Mather!

10/26/2012
John Mather has been noted among Time Magazine's 25 most influential people in space in the recent "New Space Discoveries" edition.

Goddard View

10/17/2012
Swift is featured in Volume 8, Issue 9 of the Goddard View.

Goddard View

09/13/2012
Maxim Markevitch's inspiration from a roll of tape is featured in Volume 8, Issue 8 of the Goddard View.

Welcome Padi Boyd to the Division Office!

09/11/2012
While Joan Centrella is on a 1 year detail to NASA HQ, Padi will be Acting Deputy Division Director.

Goddard View

09/05/2012
The James Webb Space Telescope is featured in Volume 8, Issue 7 of the Goddard View.

Congratulations to Alice Harding for winning the Lindsay Award this year!

08/23/2012
Dr. Alice Harding (Code 663)
Citation: For her achievement in the understanding of pulsars, through theoretical studies and interpretation of data from the Fermi mission.

Goddard View

08/10/2012
The James Webb Space Telescope is featured in Volume 8, Issue 6 of the Goddard View.

NASA Agency Honor Award winners for 2012

06/28/2012
Please congratulate the following individual winners of 2012 NASA Agency Honor Awards - Peter Serlemitsos (662), Alice Harding (663), Bernie Rauscher (665), Randy Kimble (667), Susan Neff (665), Ann Hornschemeier (662), and Will Zhang (662). Also the BESS-POLAR II Recovery Team (661) won a Group Achievement Medal.

Neil Gehrels to receive COSPAR Massey Award

06/19/2012
The citation reads:

Throughout his career, Dr. Gehrels has been dedicated to advancing high energy astrophysics from space and to increasing our understanding of explosive events in the universe. His pioneering contributions have opened up the gamma-ray range as an astronomical discipline through his leadership of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and the SWIFT Mission. His contributions have significantly increased our understanding of gamma-ray phenomena, unveiling the long-sought origin of short gamma-ray bursts.

It is for these reasons, and many more, that Dr. Gehrels is a well-deserving recipient of the 2012 COSPAR Massey Award.

Goddard View

06/19/2012
The James Webb Space Telescope is featured in Volume 8, Issue 5 of the Goddard View.

Gruber Cosmology Prize

06/01/2012
Chuck Bennett (formerly a member of Goddard's Observational Cosmology Lab and now a professor at JHU), and the WMAP team won the 2012 Gruber Cosmology Prize.  Members of the WMAP team include Al Kogut, Ed Wollack, Robert Hill, Michael Greason, Janet Weiland, and and Nils Odegard.

Congratulations to the HAWC++ Team!

04/25/2012
NASA HQ recently announced the selection of the JHU/GSFC proposed upgrade to the HAWC far-IR camera on SOFIA (the upgrade is called HAWC++). The team is led by Johannes Staguhn (JHU), and with the following Goddard co-Is: Dominic Benford (GSFC lead), Harvey Moseley, Eli Dwek, Ed Wollack and Christine Jhabvala (553). Darren Dowell (JPL) was also selected to provide a polarimeter for HAWC; Dave Chuss is a co-I on that team.

Congratulations to Neil Gehrels!

03/27/2012
Neil is the recipient of COSPAR's 2012 Massey Award. The award recognizes the outstanding contributions to the development of space research, interpreted in the widest sense, in which a leadership role is of particular importance.

Innovators of the Year

12/02/2011
Keith Gendreau and the NICER/SEXTANT team were named this year’s “IRAD Innovators of the Year.” The Goddard Office of the Chief Technologist bestows the award annually on technologists who exemplify the best in R&D. Keith and his team were chosen because of their advanced thinking and sustained effort developing innovative solutions for navigating in deep space using pulsars, transmitting data via X-rays, and gathering first-of-a-kind measurements to better understand the interior composition of neutron stars. The team also includes Zaven Arzoumanian, Michael Blau, David Fickau, John Gaebler, Monther Hasouneh, Clara Hollenhorst, Lalit Jalota, Patrick Jordan, Steven Kenyon, Sridhar Manthripragada, Alissa Mitchell, Jason Mitchell, Michael Moreau, Nicholas Spartana, and Luke Winternitz.

Goddard View

12/01/2011
The James Webb Space Telescope and the Exoplanets Conference are both featured in Volume 7, Issue 8 of the Goddard View.

2011 Robert H. Goddard Honor Award

10/26/2011
Congratulations to Sarah Eyermann and members of the JWST NIRSpec Detector team for winning Robert H Goddard Awards in 2011!

Sarah Eyermann
Award: Exceptional Achievement Award in Outreach
Citation: For outstanding leadership and coordination of the Afterschool Universe program during its development, culminating in a successful train-the-trainer workshop and nationwide dissemination network.

JWST Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSpec) Instrument Detector System Team
Award: Exceptional Achievement Award in Engineering (Team)
Citation: For outstanding accomplishment in the development and delivery of the JWST NIRSpec flight detector system. Team members from ASD: Bernie Rauscher, Bob Hill (Jr), Meng Chiao, Greg Delo, Don Lindler, Ori Fox

ESB Outfitting Project Team
Award:  Customer Service Award
ASD members of the team:  Curtis Odell and Larry Olsen
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