Elizabeth Beise
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Carleton College
AwardsMaria Goeppert-Mayer Award (1998)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity 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.

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 The Committee on the Assessment of and Outlook for Nuclear Physics, National Research Council (11 March 2013). Nuclear physics : exploring the heart of matter. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. ISBN 9780309260411. OCLC 880438319.
  2. 1 2 "Donors - MIT" (PDF). web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  3. ↑ Moshe, Gai (1993-03-24). Baryons '92 - International Conference On The Structure Of Baryons And Related Mesons. World Scientific. ISBN 9789814554213.
  4. ↑ "Betsy Beise". www2.physics.umd.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  5. ↑ G0 Collaboration; Androić, D.; Armstrong, D. S.; Arvieux, J.; Bailey, S. L.; Beck, D. H.; Beise, E. J.; Benesch, J.; Benmokhtar, F. (2010-01-08). "Strange Quark Contributions to Parity-Violating Asymmetries in the Backward Angle G0 Electron Scattering Experiment". Physical Review Letters. 104 (1): 012001. arXiv:0909.5107. Bibcode:2010PhRvL.104a2001A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.012001. PMID 20366359. S2CID 118426797.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. 1 2 "Maria Goeppert Mayer Award". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  7. ↑ "A TEACHER'S GUIDE TO THE NUCLEAR SCIENCE WALL CHART" (PDF). personalpages.to.infn.it. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  8. ↑ Nuclear science, Contemporary Physics Education Project, 1998, OCLC 223745252
  9. ↑ "Senior Staff". www.provost.umd.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  10. ↑ Physics, The Committee on the Assessment of and Outlook for Nuclear; Astronomy, Board on Physics and; Sciences, Division on Engineering and Physical; Council, National Research (2013-03-11). Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter. National Academies Press. ISBN 9780309260411.
  11. ↑ "National Research Council presents long-term priorities for US nuclear physics program". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  12. 1 2 3 4 "APS Division of Nuclear Physics Newsletter" (PDF). APS. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  13. ↑ Read "Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter" at NAP.edu. 2013. doi:10.17226/13438. ISBN 978-0-309-26040-4.
  14. ↑ "American Physical Society's 21st Century Campaign" (PDF). www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  15. ↑ Ford, Matt (2008-02-29). "AAAS: State of the Art in Nuclear Physics-Experiment". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  16. ↑ Tayag, Yasmin. "We Scienced the 'Ghostbusters' Trailer and It Got Particle Physics Right". Inverse. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  17. ↑ "2010 Decadal Review of Nuclear Physics" (PDF). obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  18. ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award#1008117 - University of Maryland: Towards an Institution for Inclusive Excellence (UM=TI^2E)". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  19. ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award#1463898 - Faculty Workload and Rewards Project". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  20. ↑ "O'Meara, Beise Receive NSF Grant to Support ADVANCE Faculty Workload and Rewards Project | PressReleasePoint". www.pressreleasepoint.com. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  21. ↑ "APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics Site Visit | Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara". www.physics.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  22. ↑ "Betsy Beise Named University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher - UMD Physics". umdphysics.umd.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  23. ↑ "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  24. ↑ "APS Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  25. ↑ "APS Council Announces 2001 APS Fellows" (PDF). www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
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