Individual Award

Huey-Wen Lin, Ph.D., is a tenured associate professor with a joint appointment in the departments of physics and astronomy as well as computational mathematics, science and engineering in the College of Natural Science. Her primary research focuses on lattice quantum chromodynamics, or lattice QCD, calculations in theoretical physics using high-performance supercomputers.

Lin has been a strong advocate for outreach and DEI efforts since she was a postdoc more than a decade ago. She serves as the MSU representative to the American Physical Society, or APS, Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Alliance and as chair for the physics and astronomy DEI committee. Lin also serves on the United States lattice QCD community Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee and International Lattice Diversity and Inclusion Committee, where she helped introduce the first code of conduct and issue a diversity survey. Additionally, she actively integrates DEI principles and initiatives in her teaching and STEM courses to increase the number of women and underrepresented groups in the field.