Professor Judith Pipher to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
* Annual Anthony Legacy Dinner To Honor Women's Achievements.
The annual Susan B. Anthony Legacy Dinner on Thursday, Feb. 7, will honor the achievements of women in the University community, including Judith Pipher, professor of astronomy and a member of the faculty since 1971, who will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. http://www.rochester.edu/pr/News/NewsReleases/latest/dinner02.html
The following is a corrected version (*) of the text from the SBA Web site: http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/legacy02.html
Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award
Judith Pipher, Ph.D., is the 2002 recipient of the Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Pipher, professor of astronomy, has been a member of the University of Rochester faculty since 1971. She is internationally known for her work developing infrared detector technology and for her numerous publications on *star formation as well as the study of dusty galaxies, and galaxy nuclei*.
With her UR colleague Bill Forrest, she has led the development of InSb DRO arrays. Her group has guided the progress in this field all the way from the first low-performance 32x32 arrays to today's essentially perfect, 1024x1024 variety. Their work resulted in half of the detectors in the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) for the upcoming new NASA "great observatory," the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), due to be launched in December 2002. The astronomical fruits of Dr. Pipher's labor are evident in some 150 publications on star formation, the structure and evolution of dusty galaxies, and the nuclei of galaxies, including the center of our own Milky Way, and active or "starburst" galactic nuclei.
Because of her success in leadership of these efforts, Dr. Pipher has been much in demand for other scientific leadership roles at the national and international level. She has chaired or otherwise served on a large number of the national committees that determine the course of funding in astrophysics, for NASA and NSF. At present she serves as chair of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Science Council *and is a member of the NRC's Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics*.
Dr. Pipher received her B.Sc. from the University of Toronto (1962). In 1971, she earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University. Beginning In 1971, she served as an instructor at the University of Rochester. She became Assistant Professor of Astronomy in 1972 and Associate Professor in 1977. In 1983, she was appointed Professor of Astronomy.
See also Currents Article: UR http://www.rochester.edu/pr/Currents/V30/V30N01/story08.html
and UR Press release: http://www.rochester.edu/pr/News/NewsReleases/people/pipheraward.html
Nominations for the award were solicited on November 9,2001 (see http://www.rochester.edu/pr/News/NewsReleases/general/sbaaward.html)
Article submitted by:
Arie Bodek
1/17/02; 9:23:28 AM