Posted on: Saturday, March 26, 2005
Two UH profs win Sloan fellowships
Advertiser Staff
Two University of Hawai'i assistant professors — one who studies the stars and another researching the smallest particles of matter — were recently awarded prestigious Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships, established in 1955 to provide support for scientists and scholars in their early careers.
Liu grew up in the Washington, D.C., area and is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley. He came to the University of Hawai'i as the Beatrice Watson Parrent Fellow in 2000 and was appointed to an assistant professorship in 2004.
Melnikov received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Novosibirsk State University in Russia and his doctorate from Mainz University in Germany. He came to UH in 2002 from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
In 2003, Melnikov was designated an "Outstanding Junior Investigator" by the Department of Energy's Division of High Energy Physics.
Michael Liu, 34, of the UH Institute for Astronomy, has been using the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea to study how young planets form around new stars, the Institute for Astronomy said.
Michael Liu
Fellow Sloan recipient Kirill Melnikov, 35, is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy whose research interest is particle physics phenomenology.
Kirill Melnikov
