{"id":19271,"date":"2016-03-14T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/?p=19271"},"modified":"2017-09-27T12:40:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T16:40:58","slug":"two-cas-faculty-named-sloan-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/two-cas-faculty-named-sloan-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Two CAS Faculty Named Sloan Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, 126 outstanding US and Canadian researchers received the <a href=\"https:\/\/sloan.org\/fellowships\">2016 Sloan Research Fellowship<\/a>, including CAS\u2019 own Assistant Professor of Astronomy Catherine Espaillat and Assistant Professor of Physics Alex Sushkov. Sloan Research Fellowships \u201chonor early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as the next generation of scientific leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Espaillat\u2019s research focuses on understanding how planets form, \u201cparticularly by characterizing the \u2018footprints\u2019 that nascent planets leave behind in protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars.\u201d She joined BU as a faculty member in 2013, and previously was a NASA Sagan Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Prior to being a Sagan Fellow, she served as an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at CfA.<\/p>\n<p>Sushkov\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sushkov.com\">Quantum Lab<\/a> \u201cfocuses on small, table-top scale experiments, developing quantum tools for precision measurements to address key problems in fundamental and applied science.\u201d He and his lab search for dark matter using precision nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques, and use nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds to perform magnetic imaging and study the fundamentals of statistical mechanics and many-body physics of interacting spin systems.<\/p>\n<p>Those who receive the Fellowship\u2014which is awarded in chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, neuroscience, ocean sciences, and physics\u2014have gone on to be extremely successful in their careers. According to the Sloan Foundations press release, 43 fellows have received a Nobel Prize, 16 have won the Fields Medal in mathematics, 68 have received the National Medal of Science, and 15 have won the John Bates Clark Medal in economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers received the 2016 Sloan Research Fellowship, including CAS\u2019 own Assistant Professor of Astronomy Catherine Espaillat and Assistant Professor of Physics Alex Sushkov. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,4,195],"tags":[235,234,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19271"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25357,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19271\/revisions\/25357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}