Phillip M. Duxbury was promoted to the rank of Professor. Professor Duxbury has been at MSU since 1986 when he came here as Assistant Professor. He became an Associate Professor with tenure in 1992. He received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1983 from the University of New South Wales in 1983 and held a postdoctoral position at Oxford University. He was the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship while he was on sabbatical leave in 1993-94 in Germany. His research is in theoretical solid state physics, currently funded by the DOE for his research on Instabilities in Solids.