W. Vincent Liu, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh, is the winner of the 2007 Outstanding Young Researcher Award of the Overseas Chinese Physics Association.

Dr. Steven Van Sciver, the John Gorrie Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering and a founding member of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, became just the fifth member of the Cryogenic Society of America to be named a fellow.

Dr. David Larbalestier, Director of Florida State University's Applied Superconductivity Center, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Cryogenic Materials Conference (ICMC) on July 17 in Chattanooga.

The prestigious IEEE Council on Superconductivity award for continuing and significant contributions in the field of applied superconductivity was awarded to Dr. Lucio Rossi of CERN for his "significant and sustained contributions" on large scale applications.