AIP Publishing has announced that Gregory Howes, an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa, is the winner of the inaugural 2016 Ronald C. Davidson Award for Plasma Physics. The award will be presented annually in collaboration with the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Plasma Physics, recognizing outstanding plasma physics research by a Physics of Plasmas author. Professor Howes' paper, "A Weakened Cascade Model for Turbulence in Astrophysical Plasmas"
was recognized the top paper published in the journal Physics of Plasmas over the period 2011-2015, from a total of 5,915 papers published in the journal during that period.