News From the Department
2008 Student Awards
Congratulations to the following outstanding AOS students (view pictures):
- Sarah Monette and Neil Berg – Horn Award for excellence in overall performance as an undergraduate
- Andrew Field and Rebecca Westby – Lettau-Wahl Award for excellence in overall performance as an undergraduate
- Benjamin Sulman – Schwerdtfeger Award for excellent performance in first year graduate studies
- Mark S. Kulie – Wahl Award for outstanding performance as a Teaching Assistant
- David Ullman – Lettau Award for outstanding MS Thesis
- Mark S. Kulie and Gijs de Boer – Colloquium Student Service Award for creative dedication to the department's intellectual life
AOS Graduate students receive campus-wide awards
AOS graduate student Mark Kulie received the UW Madison Exceptional Service Teaching Award and AOS graduate student Chian-Yi Liu received a Graduate Student Peer Mentor award. Congratulations Mark anc Chian-Yi!
Reid Bryson honored with SAA symposium
The Society for American Archeology hosted a symposium in honor of Reid Bryson. The "Climate People and Behavior" symposium held on March 29 at the SAA annual meeting in Vancouver, BC concentrated on the development and use of Bryson's Macrophysical climate model. Congratulations Reid!
Prof. Pao K. Wang elected as a Fellow of Taiwan's Meteorological Society
Prof. Pao K. Wang was recently elected as a Fellow of Taiwan's Meteorological Society, the highest honor the society bestows upon its members. Pao is the only fellow elected this year. The citation states that the honor is to recognize Pao's outstanding contributions to the fields of cloud dynamics, physics, chemistry and model simulations, and the influence of aerosol on clouds.
Mr. Chiang-Lin Hsin, Director-General of the Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan, also the President of the Meteorological Society, presents the certificate of Fellow to Prof. Pao Wang on March 28, 2008.
John Norman Selected as AAAS Fellow
John Norman, a professor in Soil Sciences who is also affiliated with the AOS department, is among the 471 scientists, engineers, educators and communicators who
have been selected as fellows by the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS). The awards are announced in the Oct. 26 issue of Science.
Fellows are elected annually from within AAAS membership ranks in recognition of significant contributions to advancing scientific research, teaching and communicating science to the public. The new fellows will be honored at a special forum during the 2008 AAAS annual meeting in Boston on Feb. 16.
Norman was selcted "for advancing the interdisciplinary understanding of interactions among plants, animals,
soil and atmosphere through mathematical modeling and cooperative collaborations with colleagues and students.
The AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
Congratulations John!
On November 29, 2007, an article featuring Jim Kossen and Dan Vimont was the top news story at UW-Madison News.
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