ROCHESTER REPEATS IN 'BEST THESIS' AWARD

For the second year in a row, a Ph.D. student from the University has won the honor for the best doctoral thesis work done at Fermilab, the nation's highest-energy particle accelerator.

The award is presented by the Universities Research Administration each year to one graduate student whose work is chosen from theses submitted by representatives of the 90 universities that are members of the administration.

Un Ki Yang, who earned his doctorate in physics from the University in 2001, received the award for his thesis focusing on the inner structure of protons and neutrons, the particles that make up the nuclei of atoms.

Yang performed his research under the supervision of Arie Bodek, chair of physics and astronomy at the University.

"We are very honored that Rochester students have been awarded this national prize two years in a row," Bodek says.

This is the third award that Yang has received on his work as a graduate student. In 2001, he won the University's Lobkowicz Prize for best doctoral work in particle physics, and he won honorable mention as an "outstanding young researcher" from the American Korean Physics Association.

Last year, the Fermilab prize went to Michael Fitch '01 (PhD), who worked with Adrian Melissinos, professor of physics and astronomy at the University.

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