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2013

• Science Education -- A new physics award for talented high school students has been established
• APS Foreign Fellows
• Award presentations at the 2013 American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting
  

2012

• New AAAS Fellows
  
• 2012 APS Fellows
• Dr. Chi-Chang Kao has been named the Director of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
• Prof. Shoucheng Zhang from Stanford has been awarded the Dirac Medal for 2012, along with Duncan Haldane of Princeton and Charles Kane of the University of Pennsylvania
• Prof. Liu Chen: Awarded 2012 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Plasma Physics
• Large endowment (US$19M) from CC Leung to promote cosmology and astro-particle physics
• Prof. Xiaowei Zhuang elected a member of NAS. Prof. Jie Zhang, a foreign associate of NAS.
• Highlights of OCPA Activities in 2011
• Prof. Wu, Maw-Kuen won the 2011 Presidential Science Prize (the highest honor bestowed to the best scientists every other year in Taiwan)
• New APS fellows
• New AAAS fellows
• Shoucheng Zhang shared the 2012 APS Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize

2011

• Xiao-Gang Wen joins the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics as the new BMO Financial Group Isaac Newton Chair
• Pei-Ming Ho won the 2010-2011 AAAaward
• Cenke Xu won the 2011 OYRA award
• Ching W. Tang shared the 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
• Mau-Kuen Wu won the 2011 science and technology award in Japan
• Zhirong Hunag shared the 2011 USPAS Prize.
• Joint Reception with FIP
• 2010-2011 APS fellows
• Zhi-Xun Shen shared the 2011 APS Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
• Cheng Chin reveived 2011 I.I. Rabi Prize

2010

• Shina Tan received 2010 George E Valley Jr. Prize
• 2009-2010 APS fellows

2009

• Frank Shu won 2009 Shaw Prize
• 2009 AAAaward announced
• 2009 OYRA award announced
• Aihua Xie elected APS-DBP vice Chair
• Obituary: Professor Wu-Tubg-Ki Tung
• Zheng-Tian Lu received 2009 Francis M. Pikin Award

2008

• Former OCPA president Cheuk-Yin Wong remembers former mentor Professor John Wheeler
• Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Quantum Field Theory : 75 Years Since Solvay
• OCPA Workshop on Underground Science
• Alex Chao Won the 2008 EPS Accelerator Award
• Prof. Liu Chen, winner of the prestigious Hannes Alfven Prize 2008

2007

• 2008 bi-annual OCPA Accelerator School (Message from Alex Chao)
• Prof. Hsiang-nan Li, winner of the 2007 AAA Award
• Prof. W. Vincent Liu, winner of the 2007 OYRA Award
• OCPA 6 meeting in Singapore
• Message to the members of the American Physical Society

2006

• Report of The Fourth OCPA International Accelerator School
• Report on T.D. Lee Celebration

2002

• Report of The Third OCPA International Accelerator School
• Report on the OCPA reception at the 2002 March Meeting
• Preliminary Announcement on C.N. Yang Symposium

2001

• Report on T.D. Lee Symposium
• OCPA Dinner at the 2001 APS March Meeting
• Pehong and Adele Chen Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology Institute
• Chung-Pei Ma won the 2000 Outstanding Young Researcher Award
• Che-Ting Chan won the 2000 Achievement in Asia Award

2000

• Achievement in Asia Award 2000 OCPA Accelerator School 2000 Report
• Emily Shuk-Chi Ching and Jian Wang won OCPA's Achievement in Asia Award
• Wayne Hu won the 1999 OCPA Outstanding Young Researcher Award
• OCPA Hong Kong Conference
• Los Alamos Incident

1999

• OCPA Atlanta Conference
• Proceedings C. N. Yang Symposium
• OCPA Protest Letter to the Newsweek report on the Los Alamos Incident
• OCPA Wish-Well Letter to Prof. Ta-You Wu
• OCPA Letter to President Clinton concerning the Los Alamos Incident

1998

• Chen Ning Yang won the 1999 Onsager Prize
• Daniel Chee Tsui won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Press Release from Nobel Foundation on Daniel Tsui's Nobel Prize
• Tai Tsun Wu won the 1999 Heinemann Prize. Zhirong Huang won the 1999 APS Dissertation Award.
• Appeal to OCPA Members on China Flood Relief (09/09/98)
• Report to OCPA Members on OCPA Activities (08/29/98)
• Nai-Chang Yeh, Cal Tech Professor receives the 1998 OYRA Award at APS Meeting in LA (03/17/98)
• OCPA Physics-without-Borders Session at APS Meeting, Los Angeles, March 16, 1998 and OCPA Banquet
• OCPA AAA Winner elected as Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (01/28/98)

1997

• Academician Hu Ning passed away on December 26, 1997
• 1997 APS Fellows (thanks to D.H. Feng for this newsitem) (Decemebr 9, 1997)
• Season's greetings and membership dues (December 8, 1997)
• Report on OCPA-CASB Workshop on New Opportunities, New York City, November 8, 1997
• Call for Nominations of 1998 OCPA Asia Achievement Award
• OCPA members contributes to the Wu Zhong-Yi Foundation (November 26, 1997)
• Prof. C. N. Yang's good recovery after surgery (November 25, 1997)
• Prof. C. N. Yang's triple by-pass surgery (November 18, 1997)
• Steven Chu won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics (Press Release from the Nobel Foundation, October 15, 1997)
• Physics background for Steven Chu's 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics (Press Release from the Nobel Foundation, October 15, 1997)
• Homepage of Steven Chu, 1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics
• Letter of Congratulation from OCPA to Steve Chu, October 15, 1997
• Call for Nominations of 1998 OCPA Oustanding Young Researcher Award
• Announcement of OCPA-CASB Workshop on New Opportunities for Scientists in Business and Industry, Nov. 8, 1997, New York
• OCPA Launches a New Physicist at Large Division and Workshop on November 8, 1997 in New York
• Report on Second OCPA Meeting in Taipei, August 10-15, 1997