Congratulations to Heidi Schellman, physics department head, for being chosen as Chair of Commission 11 (C11) of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)!
IUPAP is an international organization formed in 1922 with the mission “to assist in the worldwide development of physics, to foster international cooperation in physics, and to help in the application of physics toward solving problems of concern to humanity.” In addition to its ongoing role in assuring international cooperation in physics, IUPAP is occasionally asked, as the worldwide organization for the field, to endorse international agreements, such as the proposed modifications of the standard for System International SI units and C11’s reports on authorship standards in particle physics.