Elizabeth Beise

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Elizabeth Beise
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Carleton College
Awards Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award (1998)
Scientific career
Institutions University of Maryland, College Park

Elizabeth J. (Betsy) Beise is a Professor of Physics and Associate Provost at the University of Maryland, College Park. She works on quantum chromodynamics, nucleon structure and fundamental symmetries.

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Early life and education

Beise studied physics at Carleton College, and graduated in 1981. [1] She joined MIT for her graduate research, earning a PhD in 1988. [1] [2] She was awarded the Peter T. Demos Award for the best PhD thesis from the MIT-Bates Accelerator Center. [2] She worked at the California Institute of Technology Kellogg Radiation laboratory as a senior research fellow from 1988 to 1993. Since this fellowship, Beise has been involved with the study of baryons. [3]

Career

In 1993 Beise joined the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research considered the use of electron scattering to understand the structure of a nucleon. She worked in several research labs, including the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab. [4] She worked on parity violating electron scattering and used data from the Jefferson Lab G0 experiment. [5] She was awarded the American Physical Society Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award for her contributions to electron scattering in 1998. [6] She contributed to a teacher's guide to nuclear science for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1998. [7] [8]

Academic service and advocacy

Beise is the Associate Provost for Academic Planning & Programs at the University of Maryland, College Park. [9] In 1999 she joined the United States Department of Energy – NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, writing the long-range plans in 1996, 2002, 2007 and 2012. [1] [10] [11] In 2004 she served as the National Science Foundation Program Director for Nuclear Physics. [12] [13] She was a member of the American Physical Society Executive Board in 2009. [14] Beise is interested in the intersection of the arts and sciences, and took part in an interdisciplinary AAAS symposium in 2008. [15] She has checked the physics in film Ghostbusters, realising that they were estimating the rate of proton decay. [16] In 2010 she contributed to the National Academy of Sciences Review of Nuclear Physics. [17]

Beise has been involved with several initiatives to improve the representation of women, and particularly women of colour, in physics. [18] Beise was part of a team that was awarded a National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant to investigate faculty workload, looking to transform the workplace culture that results in an underrepresentation of women in physics. [19] The project is a five-year experiment in collaboration with North Carolina State University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [20] She has been involved in the APS committee on the status of women in physics. [21]

Awards and honours

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