2025 Joseph A. Johnson Award goes to Morgan State University assistant professor Stacyann Nelson
Grant and Award Announcement
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 24-Dec-2025 12:11 ET (24-Dec-2025 17:11 GMT/UTC)
AIP and the National Society of Black Physicists give the Joseph A. Johnson Award to early-career scientists who demonstrate scientific ingenuity and passion for mentorship and service, and this year they congratulate Stacyann Nelson as the winner of the 2025 Award and Christian Aganze as an Honorable Mention. They are honoring Nelson for the study of gluon dynamics in gold nuclei and for instilling confidence in her students to aspire to become leaders in physics research and Aganze for his dark matter research and community outreach.
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