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Cutting Edge

04/24/2013
NICER/SEXTANT and Super-TIGER are featured in Volume 9, Issue 3 (Spring 2013) of the Cutting Edge

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

Goddard View

09/13/2011
The James Webb Space Telescope and Swift are both featured in Volume 7, Issue 6 of the Goddard View.

Goddard View

08/11/2011
Blueshift is featured in Volume 7, Issue 5 of the Goddard View. See page 9.

New Members of the Hubble Project Science Team

06/23/2011
Congratulations to Jeff Kruk and Padi Boyd, new members of the Hubble Project Science Team! Jeff is our new Observatory Project Scientist, and Padi is our new Deputy Operations Project Scientist.

Jeff has extensive experience with the Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) mission and the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT). Currently he is Instrument Scientist for WFIRST, and he will continue working with WFIRST as well as HST. He is also a co-investigator on the ACCESS sounding rocket. Jeff's experience and enthusiasm will be a great asset for keeping the Hubble Observatory in tip-top shape!

Padi has played key roles in support of a variety of operating missions, especially Swift and RXTE, where as subsystem lead of the Guest Observer and Science Centers she was critically involved in maximizing the science impact from these missions through the GO programs and archive. Her recent 2-year detail at HQ as program scientist for Kepler, MOST and GALEX missions as well as exoplanet R and A program manager gives her insights that will be of great benefit in maximizing operational effectiveness and science return of Hubble's mission. Padi will continue also part time as Associate Lab Chief of the Astroparticle Physics Lab.

NASA Honor Award

06/20/2011
Please congratulate the 2011 NASA Honor Award recipients!

New 661 Associate Lab Chief

03/22/2011
Padi Boyd has a new role -- Associate Lab Chief for the Astroparticle Physics Lab (661)! Padi brings a very broad and diverse background to her new job, having previously worked on the High Speed Photometer, the MOXE all sky instrument, the Swift Science Center, the RXTE Guest Observer facility, and more recently as the Kepler and GALEX program scientist during a detail at HQ over the past couple of years.

Congratulations WFIRST Team!

11/10/2010
Congratulations to the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) team, winner of the Astro2010 Decadal Survey in the Large Space mission class. The Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) concept, developed at Goddard, was selected by the Decadal Survey as the basis for the WFIRST mission. WFIRST expands on the JDEM concept of a dark energy mission by adding requirements for exoplanet and galactic and extragalactic surveys. The JDEM concept was determined to be capable of performing all of the required WFIRST science. WFIRST will be managed by Goddard

Goddard View

10/15/2010
Lindsay Award winners and JWST are both featured in Volume 6, Issue 11 of the Goddard View.

2010 Robert H Goddard Awards for Science

09/21/2010
Congratulations to Matt Greenhouse, Randy Kimble and Alexander Moiseev for winning the 2010 Robert H Goddard Awards for Science!

Goddard View

08/25/2010
Fermi is featured in Volume 6, Issue 8 of the Goddard View.

GSFC SED Honor Awards

07/30/2010
Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 GSFC Honor Awards! Science: Alexander Moiseev (661), Matthew Greenhouse (665), Randy Kimble (667); Robert H. Goddard Award of Merit: Richard Mushotzky (662)

McEnery and Thompson Share Lindsay Award

07/20/2010
Please congratulate Julie McEnery and Dave Thompson for being awarded (jointly) the 2010 John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science.

Swift on the BBC

07/16/2010
5live's "Up all night" program ran a feature on GRB 100621A . You can hear it online. Scroll the time bar to 01:24:01 to get to the start of the piece.

Goddard View

06/03/2010
Dr. Neil Gehrels, Swift, Hubble, and JWST are all featured in Volume 6, Issue 4 of the Goddard View.

2010 Science Jamboree

05/12/2010
Plans for the second annual science jamboree on June 2nd are progressing well. Please keep this day open on your calendars and avoid scheduling other meetings the same day! This will be a great opportunity to mix and mingle with your colleagues and see all the exciting science we lead at the center.

Congratulations to Dr. Neil Gehrels

04/27/2010
Please congratulate Neil Gehrels for his election to the National Academy of Sciences. The award is given for Neil's pioneering contributions to gamma ray astronomy and leadership of the CGRO and Swift missions to study AGN and gamma-ray bursts.

Nov 6: Elihu Boldt Memorial Symposium

11/02/2009
Last fall, September 12, 2008, Dr. Elihu Boldt passed away. Dr. Boldt was the first head of the X-ray Astrophysics Branch in the Laboratory of High Energy Astrophysics. Some who worked with him are honoring his memory with talks on subjects that he worked on or to which their work has evolved in a half day symposium on the morning of Nov. 6.

Congratulations to John Mitchell and the Bess program.

09/23/2009
Congratulations to John Mitchell and the BESS program for being one of nine scientific teams selected to work on future high-altitude balloon and sounding rocket payloads.
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