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The winner of the 2023 TPS Best Paper Award has been selected (please refer to our TPS home page for details about the award at https://ieee-npss.org/publications/transactions-on-plasma-science/). This year is the fifth year that the award is being given, and I am pleased to announce that this year’s winner is the paper, “Effect of Nonuniform Emission on Miram Curves” Published in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE, Volume: 48, Issue: 1, January 2020, Page(s): 146–155. The nine coauthors of this paper are David Chernin, John J. Petillo, and Serguei Ovtchinnikov from Leidos, Inc., Reston, VA, USA; Y. Y. Lau and Abhijit Jassem from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; and Dongzheng Chen, Ryan Jacobs, Dane Morgan, and John H. Booske from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA. The abstract of the paper and the photos and biosketches of the coauthors are given as follows. The award plaques, certificates, and award checks have been sent to the coauthors by IEEE. This paper is an open access paper, freely available to all our readers. Congratulations to the team of coauthors David Chernin, John J. Petillo, Serguei Ovtchinnikov, Y. Y. Lau, Abhijit Jassem, Dongzheng Chen, Ryan Jacobs, Dane Morgan, and John H. Booske on this accomplishment.