It was announced this week that Lisa Manning has won the 2016 IUPAP Young Investigator Award given by the C3 (Statistical Physics) commission, along with Martin Lenz. The award is given “in recognition of her outstanding statistical physics contributions to the fields of granular materials, jamming, and biological cell dynamics.”  The award is given to one or two scientists from around the world every three years. Manning is the first American and the first woman to win the award.  More information about the award can be found here: http://statphys26.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/16