Alexey Petrov, assistant professor of physics at Wayne State University, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Development Award. The award is one of the highest honors granted by the NSF to young faculty members in the area of science and engineering, and is intended to support their career-development activities. Petrov will use the five-year, $400,000 grant on research to develop new theoretical and computational methods related to the study of particles containing heavy quarks. He also will work with greater Detroit area high schools to develop an educational program in computational science, reaching out to African-American students and other under-represented groups in Detroit schools. For more details, visit www.research.wayne.edu. A photo of Petrov is included.