Yale’s Maruyama is 2014 Sloan winner

Yale physicist Reina Maruyama has won a 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship. The awards, to 126 U.S. and Canadian scientists, provide $50,000 to early-career scientists and scholars “whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars,” according to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which has sponsored the fellowships since 1955 and announced the latest winners Feb. 18.

Yale physicist Reina Maruyama has won a 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship.

The awards, to 126 U.S. and Canadian scientists, provide $50,000 to early-career scientists and scholars “whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars,” according to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which has sponsored the fellowships since 1955 and announced the latest winners Feb. 18.

Past Sloan fellows include the renowned scientists Richard Feynman and John Nash. In all, 42 past fellows have ultimately won Nobel Prizes.

Maruyama, an assistant professor of physics at Yale, studies the fundamental properties of neutrinos and dark matter. She seeks to determine their nature through experiments in underground laboratories around the world.

She has developed and prototyped the first direct dark matter experiment in the Southern Hemisphere that will probe a long-standing but unsubstantiated claim for the discovery of non-gravitational interaction of dark matter with ordinary matter.

Maruyama joined the Yale faculty in July 2013 from the University of Wisconsin.

Sloan Fellowships are awarded in eight scientific and technical fields: chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, evolutionary and computational molecular biology, neuroscience, ocean sciences, and physics.

The foundation’s website offers a complete list of 2014 winners.

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