Sherry Yennello

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Sherry J. Yennello is an American nuclear chemist / nuclear physicist and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [1] [2] She is a Regents Professor and the holder of the Cyclotron Institute Bright Chair in Nuclear Science, [3] who currently serves as the Director of the Cyclotron Institute at Texas A&M University. [4] She is also a Fellow of the American Chemical Society [5] and the American Physical Society. [6] She has authored as well as co-authored more than 530 peer reviewed journal articles [7] and has conducted many invited talks, presentations and seminars at several prestigious academic conferences and scholarly lectures.

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Education

Professor Yennello received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1985, following which she also received a Bachelor of Science in Physics in 1986. She continued her education with her Doctor of Philosophy studies in Nuclear Chemistry at Indiana University Bloomington, where she also worked as an Associate Instructor. She completed her doctoral studies in 1990, and began her career as a post-doctoral Research Associate at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) [8] at Michigan State University.

Professional career

In 1993, she joined Texas A&M University, College Station as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry. Her significant contributions to research and academia during her tenure at Texas A&M, led her to serve as the Program Director for Nuclear Physics for the National Science Foundation, for a period of two years from 2000 to 2002. She was appointed as an Associate Dean for Diversity for the College of Science at Texas A&M University [9] in 2004, following which she also served as the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs (2008 - 2014) and Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives (2016 - 2018) for the same. She was awarded the title of Regents' Professor by Texas A&M University in 2007. [10] In 2014, she was named the Director of the Cyclotron Institute, [11] which is a U.S. Department of Energy University Facility at Texas A&M University, jointly supported by United States Department of Energy and the State of Texas. [12] Over the years, she has supervised and been a research adviser to more than 80 students, including post-doctoral research fellows, graduate and undergraduate students.

Research Interests

Dr. Yennello's research interests include accelerator based heavy-ion reactions to study the dynamics and thermodynamics of excited nuclear matter and elucidate the nuclear equation of state, particularly the density dependence of the symmetry term, which has implications for the formation of elements and other astrophysical processes. [13] The Yennello Research Group [14] focuses on further constraining this density dependence using heavy-ion collisions. Utilizing the K500 and K150 cyclotrons, heavy-ion projectiles are accelerated to up to 40% the speed of light and collided with stationary targets. These reactions are important for studying structure, chemical composition, and the evolution of neutron stars and dynamics of supernovae explosions.

Awards

Dr. Yennello's contributions to the domain of nuclear physics and chemistry has been well acknowledged internationally, and she has been the recipient of several prestigious awards and honors over the span of her career. Some of the prominent awards received by her are listed below:

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