UVa Physics Alumnus Matthew Caplan (B.S. 2013), now a Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University, has received the 2018 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics from the American Physical Society.
 
Citation:
"for a pioneering study of dense nuclear matter in compact stars that makes surprising connections across disciplines including nuclear physics and biophysics."

For more, see:
http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?first_nm=Matthew,&last_nm=Caplan&year=2018