Sarah C. Eno is an American experimental particle physicist at the

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, where she is a professor of physics and UMD Distinguished Scholar–Teacher. She has participated in several large experimental collaborations in high-energy physics, including the AMY experiment at the Japanese

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particle accelerator, the DØ experiment at

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in the US, the Collider Detector at Fermilab, and the

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experiment at the

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in France and Switzerland.

Education and career

Eno is a 1984 graduate of

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, where she was

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. She studied physics as a graduate student at the

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, earning a master's degree there in 1986 and completing her Ph.D. in 1990. After postdoctoral research at the

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of the

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, she joined the University of Maryland faculty in 1993. She was tenured as an associate professor in 1999, and promoted to full professor in 2005.

Recognition

In 2009, Eno was elected as a

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(APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Particles and Fields, "for contributions in particle physics involving electroweak parameters, precision electroweak measurements, and physics beyond the Standard Model at the Tevatron". She was named to the 2021 class of Fellows of the

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. The University of Maryland named her as a Distinguished Scholar–Teacher in 2014.

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