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Horton alumnus Avi Milder was selected to receive the Chiyoe Yamanaka Award at the 2023 Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications Conference. The award will be given for his research performed at the Omega Laser Facility that used angularly resolved Thomson scattering to demonstrate non-Maxwellian electron distribution functions in laser-produced plasmas and their effects on atomic physics and laser–plasma interactions—both effects only previously predicted by theory. This seminal technique has opened an avenue of fundamental plasma-physics exploration that will allow researchers to directly measure the velocity distribution functions across a variety of plasma phenomena, including nonlocal thermal transport. The Yamanaka award is given to early-career scientists in the spirt of Chiyoe Yamanaka, a pioneer of inertial fusion sciences and applications.