Elizabeth Beise

Beise is the Associate Provost for Academic Planning & Programs at the University of Maryland, College Park.[9] In 1999 she joined the United States Department of Energy – NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, writing the long-range plans in 1996, 2002, 2007 and 2012.[1][10][11] In 2004 she served as the National Science Foundation Program Director for Nuclear Physics.[12][13] She was a member of the American Physical Society Executive Board in 2009.[14] Beise is interested in the intersection of the arts and sciences, and took part in an interdisciplinary AAAS symposium in 2008.[15] She has checked the physics in film Ghostbusters, realising that they were estimating the rate of proton decay.[16] In 2010 she contributed to the National Academy of Sciences Review of Nuclear Physics.[17]

Beise has been involved with several initiatives to improve the representation of women, and particularly women of colour, in physics.[18] Beise was part of a team that was awarded a National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant to investigate faculty workload, looking to transform the workplace culture that results in an underrepresentation of women in physics.[19] The project is a five-year experiment in collaboration with North Carolina State University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[20] She has been involved in the APS committee on the status of women in physics.[21]

• 2012 University of Maryland, College Park Distinguished Scholar-Teacher[22]
• 2009 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow[23]
• 2008 University of Maryland George M. Snow Award for Promotion of Women in Physics[12]
• 2004 University of Maryland Faculty-mentor Phillip Merrill Scholarship Award[12]
• 2001 American Physical Society Fellow[24][25]
• 1998 American Physical Society Centennial Speaker[12]
• 1998 American Physical Society Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award[6]