Abhay Deshpande (IMAGE) DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory Caption Abhay Deshpande, director of Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) science at Brookhaven National Laboratory and a physics professor at Stony Brook University, with a superconducting magnet like those that make up the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and parts of the future EIC. Credit Brookhaven National Laboratory Usage Restrictions OK for use with stories about this award with credit. Contact Brookhaven Lab for other uses. License Original content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.