NSDer Bethany Goldblum is the 2020 winner of the James Corones award in Leadership, Community Building and Education. Goldblum was recognized for her exceptional achievements in nuclear physics and nonproliferation research and on training future nuclear experts, in connection with her role as the executive director of the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium. She will receive the award, along with a $2,000 honorarium at a ceremony later this year. Bethany’s portfolio includes a diverse set of projects, including studies at the 88-inch cyclotron to measure the light yield of scintillators undergoing proton recoil.

New NSD postdoc Reynier (Rey) Cruz Torres received the MIT Physics Department Sergio Vazquez Prize for his dissertation. Working under Prof. Or. Hen, Dr. Cruz Torrez was recognized “for his novel experimental study of the strong nuclear interaction in few-body mirror nuclei and his theoretical study of short-distance factorization in many-body nuclear wave functions using the new Generalized Contact Formalism.”