Dr. Cynthia Keppel, this year’s Distinguished Lecturer, will be giving her inaugural lecture, titled “Career Opportunities from Fundamental Physics to Patient Treatments”, on Wednesday at 10:24-11am in Session K34 (Room 205A). Working at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Dr. Keppel received the award “For pioneering work in proton therapy and for the promotion of the applications of physics to both experts and non-experts". We encourage all to attend and to congratulate Dr. Keppel on both this prestigious achievement and for the opportunity to help young physicists understand a career in Industrial and Applied Physics.

This follows a very busy year for Dr. Robert Kleinberg, our current Distinguished Lecturer. The Award requires not only a lecture or talk be given at the March Meeting, but also that the Distinguished Lecture be given at no less than 3 other events throughout the year. Dr. Kleinberg has gone “above and beyond” this requirement, giving 11 different lectures: at seven universities, two Section meetings, one corporation and the inaugural March Meeting talk. He found his direct interactions with students at ‘roundtable’ sessions to be particularly rewarding. We applaud Dr. Kleinberg’s efforts and appreciate his willingness to engage with early career physicists. Dr. Kleinberg reflects on his experience during the Distinguished Lecture in an article which will soon appear in Physics and Society, the quarterly newsletter of the Forum on Physics and Society, to which we will link when it is published.

Each year, the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics (FIAP) and the Committee on Careers and Professional Development (CCPD) recognize a physicist who has distinguished themselves in an industrial or non-academic career through the Distinguished Lectureship Award on the Applications of Physics. Would you like a colleague to be recognized for all that terrific work done over many years? More information on Dr. Keppel and the award can be found at this link.