Fred Best Attains Distinguished Level
Fred Best, SSEC’s Executive Director for Technology, has been advanced to the academic staff “Distinguished” level, an honor reserved for a small number of academic staff whose superlative accomplishments are evidenced by widespread peer recognition. Only 36 academic staff members at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been awarded this status.
A Distinguished academic staff member is expected to develop new approaches, methods or techniques to resolve or prevent problems with little or no expert guidance and to cope independently with new, unexpected or complex situations. Neither seniority nor longevity is sufficient for award of this designation.
Best’s work in developing phase change cells used for determining extremely accurate on-orbit temperature calibration was the chief reason for his nomination. The twelve-member committee (comprised of twelve Distinguished level academic staff members) approved the honor unanimously.
Congratulations, Fred!
