UVa Physics Alumna M. Lisa Manning (B.S. 2002), now Associate Professor of Physics at the Syracuse University, has received the 2018 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award by the American Physical Society.
 
Citation:
"for her use of computational and analytical tools to develop microscopic understanding of flow in disordered materials, ranging from metallic glasses to biological tissues."

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