In Brief

Robert Dynes will become president of the University of California’s nine-campus system in October. Dynes, chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, will succeed Richard Atkinson, who is retiring after eight years in the position.

In July, Richard G. Kron became the third director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a collaboration of 13 institutions worldwide and more than 200 astronomers working to map, in detail, one-fourth of the entire sky. Kron, a professor in the University of Chicago’s department of astronomy and astrophysics and a scientist at Fermilab, succeeds John Peoples, who retired on 30 June.

The Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences bestowed the M. A. Markov Prize on Thomas J. Bowles, Vladimir Gavrin, and Vadim Kuzmin at a two-day symposium at the institute in Moscow this past May. The award recognizes the trio for their “outstanding contributions to fundamental physics and the development of research on the solar neutrino problem.” Bowles, whose work has been in neutrino physics and fundamental symmetries, is a fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Gavrin and Kuzmin are both with the institute: Gavrin heads the Gallium—Germanium Neutrino Telescope Laboratory at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory and Kuzmin is head of the laboratory for particle physics and cosmology in the theory division.

Last month, the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans awarded the 2003 Prince Albert I Medal in Physical Oceanography to Klaus Wyrtki during the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly in Sapporo, Japan. Wyrtki, emeritus professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, was cited for his “excellence in the physical sciences of the oceans.”