The Association for Women in Mathematics is pleased to announce that the 2023 Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry will be awarded to Kristen Hendricks, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings. A full press release is attached and posted here: https://awm-math.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/PR-Birman-2023-K-Hendricks.pdf. Established in 2012, the AWM Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize highlights exceptional research in topology/geometry by a woman early in her career.