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Rashmi C. Desai from the University of Toronto, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics in 2001, for applications of statistical mechanics to materials science, including: phase separation and ordering kinetics in systems with competing interactions, Langmuir films, ferromagnetic films, epitaxially grown solid films, order-order transitions in polymers.