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Cindy Regal became an Associate Fellow of JILA in January 2010.

Ralph Jimenez became a Fellow of JILA in November 2009.

Tom O’Brian became Chief of NIST’s Quantum Physics Division in October 2009.

Javier von Stecher and Andrew Ludlow both won 2009 DAMOP thesis prizes, a grand slam for JILA!

Theorist Andreas Becker from the Universitët Bielefeld and the Max Plank Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems became an Associate Fellow of JILA in August 2008.

Theorist Ana Maria Rey from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’ ITAMP and Harvard University’s Physics Department became an Associate Fellow of JILA in August 2008.

Tom Perkins became a Fellow of JILA in November 2007.

Konrad Lehnert became a Fellow of JILA in October 2007.

The JILA Monsters won the championship of the Boulder Coed Recreational E 1 Softball League in August 2007.

Deborah Jin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007, an honor she shared with such luminaries as Al Gore, Sandra Day O’Connor, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and filmmaker Spike Lee.

Cindy Regal was awarded the 2007 DAMOP thesis prize.

Mathias Weber from Universitaet Karlsruhe became an Associate Fellow of JILA in January 2006.

James Thompson became an Associate Fellow of JILA in September 2006, arriving from the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms.

Margaret Murnane was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006, along with such luminaries as former presidents George H. W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton as well as actor and director Martin Scorsese.

John L. (Jan) Hall was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Ana Maria Rey was awarded the 2005 DAMOP thesis prize.

Heather Lewandowski became an Associate Fellow in May of 2005.

Eric Cornell was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005, in the company of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, actor Sidney Poitier, journalist Tom Brokaw, and sculptor Maya Lin.

Markus Greiner and James Thompson were awarded 2004 DAMOP thesis prizes.

Phil Armitage became a Fellow of JILA in November 2004.

Rosalba Perna from Princeton became an Associate Fellow in August 2004.

Deborah Jin was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2003.

Alan Gallagher retired and became an adjoint Fellow in 2003.

Pat McInerney retired from JILA at the end of 2003. He was replaced by Julie Bachinski.

Ellen Zweibel left JILA at the end of 2002 to become Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Gordon Dunn retired from JILA in December of 2002.

John Bohn became a Fellow of JILA in April 2002.

In July 2002, Stephen Leone left JILA to become Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Chemical Dynamics Beamline at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is currently a Fellow Adjoint of JILA.

Thomas Weinacht was awarded the 2001 DAMOP thesis prize.

Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman were awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Tuck Stebbins left in June 2001 to take a position as a LISA project scientist at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.

Jun Ye became a Fellow of JILA in April 2001.

Margaret Murnane was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2000.

Katy Garmany left her position as JILA Fellow in June 2000. She is currently a Senior Science Education Specialist at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.

Stephen Leone was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 15, 2000, along with such well-known personalities as George Lucas and Placido Domingo!

Steven Cundiff, Murray Holland, and Deborah Jin became Fellows of JILA in April 2000.

Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane joined JILA as Fellows of JILA in 1999, arriving from the University of Michigan.

Brett Esry was awarded the 1999 DAMOP thesis prize.

Carl Wieman was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.

Christopher Wood was awarded the 1998 DAMOP thesis prize.

Carl Lineberger was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995.