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May 20, 2009 | 02:59 PM
Jacak elected to National Academy of Sciences
Barbara V. Jacak, (pronounced yacht-sock) distinguished professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Dr. Jacak is an internationally renowned nuclear physicist who uses heavy ion collisions for fundamental studies of hot, dense nuclear matter. After carrying out important experiments at accelerator laboratories in the United States and Europe, she has been a leading member of the collaboration that built and operates the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Since joining Stony Brook as a professor of physics in 1997, Dr. Jacak has led the Stony Brook PHENIX Group, and in December 2006 was elected as spokesperson by the more than 500 scientists involved in the PHENIX Collaboration. Their codiscovery of the perfect liquid and its apparently strongly coupled behavior was hailed as the top physics story of 2005 by the American Institute of Physics.
Dr. Jacak resides in Setauket. She is the spokesperson for the PHENIX collaboration at BNL, and her rank at SBU as a distinguished professor is the university's highest faculty designation.
Wisz-Welter engagement
Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Wisz of Williamsville and Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Welter of Stony Brook joyfully announce the engagement of their children, Jamie Theresa Wisz and Drew Christian Welter.
Ms. Wisz is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Duke University, and received her juris doctorate degree from Harvard Law School. After interning as a biological and economic analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, she joined the firm of Wilmer Cutler in Washington, D.C. She was recently named counsel in the firm's intellectual property division.
Dr. Welter graduated cum laude from Duke University, and received his doctor of medicine degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. He joined the anesthesiology staff at George Washington University Hospital, after serving as chief resident there. He is presently the director of neurosurgical anesthesiology, and assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care at GW Medical School. A May 2010 wedding is planned in Washington, D.C.
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