Winners: Yimei Zhu, Vernon Cosslett Medal for Microscopy
Yimei Zhu, of Stony Brook. Credit: International Federation of Societies for Microscopy
Yimei Zhu, of Stony Brook, has received the 2023 Vernon Cosslett Medal from the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy in recognition of his achievements in the field of microscopy instrumentation and methodology. Zhu is a senior physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and leader of the lab’s Nanoscale Structure and Structural Defects in Advanced Materials Group within the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Division. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia and Stony Brook universities, has published 700 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and has served on various government review panels, committees, institutional advisory boards and editorial boards of microscopy journals.
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Updated now Newsday travel writer Scott Vogel took the ferry over to Block Island for a weekend of fun.
Updated now Newsday travel writer Scott Vogel took the ferry over to Block Island for a weekend of fun.
