The Texas A&M Research Foundation announced the recipient of the 2007 JoAnn Treat Research Excellence at their Annual Councilor/Trustee Fall meeting on November 30, 2007. This year's recipient is Dr. Alexey Belyanin, Associate Professor, Physics Department at Texas A&M University.

Dr. Alexey Belyanin received his Ph.D. from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1995. He joined the Department of Physics as an Assistant Professor in the Fall 2003, after holding research positions at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Texas A&M. Dr. Belyanin was granted early tenure in spring 2007. He has published papers in Nature and major physics journals, received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, and leads Texas A&M effort in two NSF-funded multi-university consortiums. He has developed a new graduate course, taught several service courses, and serves as a faculty advisor for the A&M Chapter of the Society of Physics Students. He has served on several NSF review panels and as a chair of major international conferences.

Dr. Belyanin received a $10,000 cash award, a commemorative plaque and will also have his name recorded on the JoAnn Treat commemorative glass vase displayed in the Research Foundation lobby.