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Elizabeth Beise
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Carleton College
AwardsMaria Goeppert-Mayer Award (1998)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland, College Park

Elizabeth J. (Betsy) Beise is a Professor of Physics and Associate Provost at the University of Maryland, College Park. She works on quantum chromodynamics, nucleon structure and fundamental symmetries.

Early life and education

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Beise studied physics at Carleton College, and graduated in 1981.[1] She joined MIT for her graduate research, earning a PhD in 1988.[1][2] She was awarded the Peter T. Demos Award for the best PhD thesis from the MIT-Bates Accelerator Center.[2] She worked at the California Institute of Technology Kellogg Radiation laboratory as a senior research fellow from 1988 to 1993. Since this fellowship, Beise has been involved with the study of baryons.[3]

Career

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In 1993 Beise joined the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research considered the use of electron scattering to understand the structure of a nucleon. She worked in several research labs, including the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab.[4] She worked on parity violating electron scattering and used data from the Jefferson Lab G0 experiment.[5] She was awarded the American Physical Society Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award for her contributions to electron scattering in 1998.[6] She contributed to a teacher's guide to nuclear science for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1998.[7][8]

Academic service and advocacy

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Beise is the Associate Provost for Academic Planning & Programs at the University of Maryland, College Park.[9] In 1999 she joined the United States Department of Energy – NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, writing the long-range plans in 1996, 2002, 2007 and 2012.[1][10][11] In 2004 she served as the National Science Foundation Program Director for Nuclear Physics.[12][13] She was a member of the American Physical Society Executive Board in 2009.[14] Beise is interested in the intersection of the arts and sciences, and took part in an interdisciplinary AAAS symposium in 2008.[15] She has checked the physics in film Ghostbusters, realising that they were estimating the rate of proton decay.[16] In 2010 she contributed to the National Academy of Sciences Review of Nuclear Physics.[17]

Beise has been involved with several initiatives to improve the representation of women, and particularly women of colour, in physics.[18] Beise was part of a team that was awarded a National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant to investigate faculty workload, looking to transform the workplace culture that results in an underrepresentation of women in physics.[19] The project is a five-year experiment in collaboration with North Carolina State University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[20] She has been involved in the APS committee on the status of women in physics.[21]

Awards and honours

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References

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  1. ^ a b c The Committee on the Assessment of and Outlook for Nuclear Physics, National Research Council (11 March 2013). Nuclear physics : exploring the heart of matter. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. ISBN 9780309260411. OCLC 880438319.
  2. ^ a b "Donors - MIT" (PDF). web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  3. ^ Moshe, Gai (1993-03-24). Baryons '92 - International Conference On The Structure Of Baryons And Related Mesons. World Scientific. ISBN 9789814554213.
  4. ^ "Betsy Beise". www2.physics.umd.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  5. ^ G0 Collaboration; Androić, D.; Armstrong, D. S.; Arvieux, J.; Bailey, S. L.; Beck, D. H.; Beise, E. J.; Benesch, J.; Benmokhtar, F. (2010-01-08). "Strange Quark Contributions to Parity-Violating Asymmetries in the Backward Angle G0 Electron Scattering Experiment". Physical Review Letters. 104 (1): 012001. arXiv:0909.5107. Bibcode:2010PhRvL.104a2001A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.012001. PMID 20366359. S2CID 118426797.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ a b "Maria Goeppert Mayer Award". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  7. ^ "A TEACHER'S GUIDE TO THE NUCLEAR SCIENCE WALL CHART" (PDF). personalpages.to.infn.it. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  8. ^ Nuclear science, Contemporary Physics Education Project, 1998, OCLC 223745252
  9. ^ "Senior Staff". www.provost.umd.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  10. ^ Physics, The Committee on the Assessment of and Outlook for Nuclear; Astronomy, Board on Physics and; Sciences, Division on Engineering and Physical; Council, National Research (2013-03-11). Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter. National Academies Press. ISBN 9780309260411.
  11. ^ "National Research Council presents long-term priorities for US nuclear physics program". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  12. ^ a b c d "APS Division of Nuclear Physics Newsletter" (PDF). APS. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  13. ^ Read "Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter" at NAP.edu. 2013. doi:10.17226/13438. ISBN 978-0-309-26040-4.
  14. ^ "American Physical Society's 21st Century Campaign" (PDF). www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  15. ^ Ford, Matt (2008-02-29). "AAAS: State of the Art in Nuclear Physics-Experiment". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  16. ^ Tayag, Yasmin. "We Scienced the 'Ghostbusters' Trailer and It Got Particle Physics Right". Inverse. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  17. ^ "2010 Decadal Review of Nuclear Physics" (PDF). obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  18. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1008117 - University of Maryland: Towards an Institution for Inclusive Excellence (UM=TI^2E)". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  19. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1463898 - Faculty Workload and Rewards Project". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  20. ^ "O'Meara, Beise Receive NSF Grant to Support ADVANCE Faculty Workload and Rewards Project | PressReleasePoint". www.pressreleasepoint.com. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  21. ^ "APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics Site Visit | Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara". www.physics.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  22. ^ "Betsy Beise Named University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher - UMD Physics". umdphysics.umd.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  23. ^ "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  24. ^ "APS Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  25. ^ "APS Council Announces 2001 APS Fellows" (PDF). www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
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