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June 5

Congratulations to Zebo Tang from the Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, for being one of the honorable mention winners of the 2009 RHIC & AGS Thesis Award. Zebo's thesis is titled: "J/psi production at high transverse momentum in p+p and A+A collisions".

June 5

Congratulations to Oleksandr Grebenyuk of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for winning the poster award at the 2009 RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting. Title of the poster is "Local Polarimetry with Zero Degree Calorimeter at STAR".

May 31

Congratulations Song Zhang, from the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, on successfully defending his Ph.D thesis: "Study of Jet Properties and Two-Particle Angular Correlations in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions"

Congratulations Xing-Hua Shi, from the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, on successfully defending her Ph.D thesis: "A System Size Dependence of phi Meson Production and Thermodynamics Study at RHIC"

May 31

Congratulations Zebo Tang, from the Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, on successfully defending his thesis: "J/psi production at high transverse momentum in p+p and A+A collisions "

May 20

Congratulations to Na Li (Institute of Particle Physics), for being awarded this year's Gertrude S. Goldhaber prize from BNL. This is given annually by BNL Women in Science for a promising young woman scientist. Details of the award in the link below http://www.bnl.gov/BWIS/.

April 25

STAR Regional Collaboration Meetings :

(a) To be held in Pusan National University, Korea
    from May 6 - May 9 2009.
    Details at :http://him.phys.pusan.ac.kr/~STAR/

(b) To be held in JINR, Dubna, Russia
    from  June 29 – July 1, 2009.
    Details at : http://star.jinr.ru/

April 4

Two STAR presentations :
Poster titled "D-meson Measurements in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV at STAR Using the Silicon Inner Tracker" by Sarah LaPointe and
Talk titled "Inclusive Cross Section and Correlations of Fully Reconstructed Jets in $sqrt{s_NN}$ = 200 GeV Au+Au and p+p" by Mateusz Ploskon were awarded 2009 Young Scientist Awards at the Quark Matter 2009. The awards, sponsored by Nuclear Physics A was granted for the best oral presentation and the best poster at Quark Matter 2009. For eligibility, presenters must be younger than 35 years of age on 31st December 2009. The presentation of these awards took place during the final session of the Conference. It consisted of a certificate and prize money of $750. Congratulations to Sarah and Mateusz!

April 2

Following posters from STAR were selected to be presented as flash plenary talks (5 minutes duration) in QM2009 conference on Thursday (2nd April 2009).

Joshua Konzer : Is the ridge formed by aligned jet propagation and medium flow direction?

Jan Kapitan : Initial state nuclear effects for jet production measured in $sqrt{s_mathrm{NN}}$~=~200~GeV d+Au collisions by STAR

Sarah LaPointe : D-meson Measurements in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV at STAR Using the Silicon Inner Tracker

Jonathan Bouchet : Heavy Flavor Tracker (HFT) : a new inner tracking device at STAR

There were 11 presentations which included topics from both theory and experiment.

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