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NC State physics alumna receives 2009 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award

Saskia Mioduszewski (BS '94) has received the 2009 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award from the American Physical Society "for her pioneering contributions to the observation of jet quenching and her continuing efforts to understand high- p_T phenomena in relativistic heavy-ion collisions."Mioduszewski is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Texas A&M University. Professor Mioduszewski earned her BS in Physics and in Mathematics (magna cum laude) at NC State in 1994. She then went to the Unviersity of Tennessee where she earned her PhD in research that included a dissertation entitled Dependence of Antiproton Production in Proton-Nucleus Collisions at 17.5 and 12.3 GeV/c. After a post doctoral appointment at Brookhaven National Laboratory, she joined the physics department faculty at Texas A&M in 2005.