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Richard Lovelace, professor of applied and engineering physics and a member of the Department of Astronomy, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). The citation on the fellowship certificate, which was presented the week of Nov. 11-15 at the APS Division of Plasma Physics annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., reads: "For pioneering contributions to the physics of astrophysical jets and disks, the discovery of the period of the Crab Nebula pulsar and the study of turbulence in the interplanetary medium." Election to fellowship in the APS is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the membership. Lovelace, who obtained his Ph.D. at Cornell in 1970, directs his research at understanding the influence of ordered magnetic fields on the dynamics and evolution of protostellar disks and associated outflows.