Assistant Professor of Physics Lawrence “Larry” Lee of UT’s College of Arts and Sciences has received the Cottrell Scholar Award.
Established in 1994, the award honors and helps to develop outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for the quality and innovation of their research programs and their academic leadership skills. Lee will receive $120,000 over three years from the Research Corporation for Science and Advancement to strengthen the pipeline of physics students who transfer to UT from community colleges and to further his research on experimental high-energy particles.
“My whole career as a collider physicist has been working on proton-proton collisions and what happens after they collide, and lately I’ve been trying to figure out how we could potentially collide muons, the heavier cousin of the electron, to get to much higher energies,” said Lee, who works with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland. “Now I’m starting to look at how you get to the point before you collide the particles and the physics of what goes into getting these particles to collide. The Cottrell award will allow me to continue to learn and contribute to the world of accelerator physics.”