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ACS names 2005 award winners
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NSF centers on the nanoscale The National Science Foundation (NSF) is to establish six new centers for nanoscale research with funds totalling $69 million over five years. The Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers (NSECs) will bring together researchers in many fields with partners in industry and government laboratories to address interdisciplinary challenges. The centers will be located at the University of California, Berkeley, Northeastern University, Ohio State University, University of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Stanford University. Each will focus on a specific research theme, which range from nanomechanics and nanoprobes to high-rate manufacturing and templated assembly. Polymer biomedical devices and the nano-bio interface will also be addressed. Bement, Jr. to head NSF US President George W. Bush has nominated Arden L. Bement, Jr. to be the next director of the NSF. Currently director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Bement has been serving as acting director of the NSF since Rita R. Colwell’s resignation in February of this year. Boost for glass research Lehigh University and The Pennsylvania State University are to establish an International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glasses with $3.25 million over five years from the NSF. The research and education center will be led by Himanshu Jain of Lehigh and Carlo G. Pantano of Penn State. Material winner Ivan K. Schuller of the University of California, San Diego is one of seven winners of the 2004 E. O. Lawrence Award. The $50 000 prize is presented by the US Department of Energy for achievements in seven different areas of the very broadly defined field of atomic energy. Schuller is the winner in the materials research category for “creating the field of metallic superlattices and recognizing the impact of these materials on magnetism and superconductivity”.
MIT appoints new president
MRS award goes to Holonyak, Jr.
Susan Hockfield has been selected as the 16th president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She will be the first woman to hold this role in the institute’s 143 year history. Hockfield will succeed Charles M. Vest, who led MIT for 14 years Credit: Donna Coveney/MIT. but announced his intention to step down at the end of 2003.
Nick Holonyak, Jr. of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is to receive the Materials Research Society’s (MRS) highest honor, the Von Hippel Award. The $10 000 prize recognizes Holonyak’s “many contributions to research and development in the field of semiconductors, not least for the first development of semiconducting lasers in the useful visible portion of the optical spectrum”. Holonyak made the first III-V alloy visible spectrum light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and lasers in 1962, and General Electric offered his LEDs and lasers for sale in the same year. “I am happy to have done the work, which is in itself the source of satisfaction,” he says.
Hockfield is currently provost of Yale University and a distinguished neuroscientist. She intends to encourage collaborative work among MIT’s departments to keep the institute at the forefront of innovation. She sees MIT’s strength in pioneering newly evolved interdisciplinary areas and translating them into practice.
The UK’s Institute of Physics has announced its award winners for 2004. Athene M. Donald of the University of Cambridge receives the Mott Medal and Prize for developing powerful new methods to study the properties of soft condensed matter. She has used various microscopies, X-ray and neutron scattering, spectroscopy, and mechanical testing to investigate synthetic and natural polymers and colloidal systems from cement to food. The Boys Medal and Prize goes to Nigel E. Hussey of the University of Bristol for his contributions to understanding high-temperature superconductors and, in particular, for making the first observation of the full Fermi surface in such a material. Philip St.J. Russell of the University of Bath has won the Young Medal and Prize for proposing photonic crystal fibers and contributing to their development and practical application.
“Around the world, MIT stands as an emblem of discovery and innovation,” she says. “This remarkable community’s curiosity, intellectual commitment, and passionate determination to solve problems have brought immeasurable benefit to humankind. It is an enormous honor and a very great privilege to have been selected to join this effort as MIT’s next president.”
ACS names 2005 award winners Louis E. Brus of Columbia University has won the 2005 American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in the Chemistry of Materials. Brus will receive the award in March at the society’s meeting in San Diego. Brus’ research focuses on the optical and electronic properties of interfaces, nanocrystals, and nanotubes using electric force and laser optical microscopy. Other ACS prizewinners include Craig J. Hawker of IBM’s Almaden Research Center in California, who receives the Applied Polymer Science Award. A. Paul Alivisatos and Peidong Yang of the University of California, Berkeley receive the Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry and the Award in Pure Chemistry, respectively. The Polymer Chemistry prize goes to Samuel I. Stupp of Northwestern University and Joseph M. DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill receives the Award for Creative Invention.
Top UK physicists rewarded
Bush honors promising careers US President George W. Bush has named 57 young researchers as recipients of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. The awards honor government-supported investigators whose early careers show promise and who have displayed leadership in their respective fields. Treena Livingston’s tissue engineering research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology is rewarded, as is Paola Barbara’s work on the interfaces of superconductors and nanotubes at Georgetown University. Daniel R. Gamelin of the University of Washington, Seattle is recognized for research on nanoscale semiconductor materials. Jian Shen of Oak Ridge National Laboratory is named for studying magnetism in nanostructured materials and Brian D. Wirth of the University of California, Berkeley is recognized for computational studies of dislocations in metals.
Please send details of new appointments, honors, and awards to [email protected]
November 2004
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NSF centers on the nanoscale The National Science Foundation (NSF) is to establish six new centers for nanoscale research with funds totalling $69 million over five years. The Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers (NSECs) will bring together researchers in many fields with partners in industry and government laboratories to address interdisciplinary challenges. The centers will be located at the University of California, Berkeley, Northeastern University, Ohio State University, University of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Stanford University. Each will focus on a specific research theme, which range from nanomechanics and nanoprobes to high-rate manufacturing and templated assembly. Polymer biomedical devices and the nano-bio interface will also be addressed. Bement, Jr. to head NSF US President George W. Bush has nominated Arden L. Bement, Jr. to be the next director of the NSF. Currently director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Bement has been serving as acting director of the NSF since Rita R. Colwell’s resignation in February of this year. Boost for glass research Lehigh University and The Pennsylvania State University are to establish an International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glasses with $3.25 million over five years from the NSF. The research and education center will be led by Himanshu Jain of Lehigh and Carlo G. Pantano of Penn State. Material winner Ivan K. Schuller of the University of California, San Diego is one of seven winners of the 2004 E. O. Lawrence Award. The $50 000 prize is presented by the US Department of Energy for achievements in seven different areas of the very broadly defined field of atomic energy. Schuller is the winner in the materials research category for “creating the field of metallic superlattices and recognizing the impact of these materials on magnetism and superconductivity”.
MIT appoints new president
MRS award goes to Holonyak, Jr.
Susan Hockfield has been selected as the 16th president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She will be the first woman to hold this role in the institute’s 143 year history. Hockfield will succeed Charles M. Vest, who led MIT for 14 years Credit: Donna Coveney/MIT. but announced his intention to step down at the end of 2003.
Nick Holonyak, Jr. of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is to receive the Materials Research Society’s (MRS) highest honor, the Von Hippel Award. The $10 000 prize recognizes Holonyak’s “many contributions to research and development in the field of semiconductors, not least for the first development of semiconducting lasers in the useful visible portion of the optical spectrum”. Holonyak made the first III-V alloy visible spectrum light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and lasers in 1962, and General Electric offered his LEDs and lasers for sale in the same year. “I am happy to have done the work, which is in itself the source of satisfaction,” he says.
Hockfield is currently provost of Yale University and a distinguished neuroscientist. She intends to encourage collaborative work among MIT’s departments to keep the institute at the forefront of innovation. She sees MIT’s strength in pioneering newly evolved interdisciplinary areas and translating them into practice.
The UK’s Institute of Physics has announced its award winners for 2004. Athene M. Donald of the University of Cambridge receives the Mott Medal and Prize for developing powerful new methods to study the properties of soft condensed matter. She has used various microscopies, X-ray and neutron scattering, spectroscopy, and mechanical testing to investigate synthetic and natural polymers and colloidal systems from cement to food. The Boys Medal and Prize goes to Nigel E. Hussey of the University of Bristol for his contributions to understanding high-temperature superconductors and, in particular, for making the first observation of the full Fermi surface in such a material. Philip St.J. Russell of the University of Bath has won the Young Medal and Prize for proposing photonic crystal fibers and contributing to their development and practical application.
“Around the world, MIT stands as an emblem of discovery and innovation,” she says. “This remarkable community’s curiosity, intellectual commitment, and passionate determination to solve problems have brought immeasurable benefit to humankind. It is an enormous honor and a very great privilege to have been selected to join this effort as MIT’s next president.”
ACS names 2005 award winners Louis E. Brus of Columbia University has won the 2005 American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in the Chemistry of Materials. Brus will receive the award in March at the society’s meeting in San Diego. Brus’ research focuses on the optical and electronic properties of interfaces, nanocrystals, and nanotubes using electric force and laser optical microscopy. Other ACS prizewinners include Craig J. Hawker of IBM’s Almaden Research Center in California, who receives the Applied Polymer Science Award. A. Paul Alivisatos and Peidong Yang of the University of California, Berkeley receive the Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry and the Award in Pure Chemistry, respectively. The Polymer Chemistry prize goes to Samuel I. Stupp of Northwestern University and Joseph M. DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill receives the Award for Creative Invention.
Top UK physicists rewarded
Bush honors promising careers US President George W. Bush has named 57 young researchers as recipients of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. The awards honor government-supported investigators whose early careers show promise and who have displayed leadership in their respective fields. Treena Livingston’s tissue engineering research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology is rewarded, as is Paola Barbara’s work on the interfaces of superconductors and nanotubes at Georgetown University. Daniel R. Gamelin of the University of Washington, Seattle is recognized for research on nanoscale semiconductor materials. Jian Shen of Oak Ridge National Laboratory is named for studying magnetism in nanostructured materials and Brian D. Wirth of the University of California, Berkeley is recognized for computational studies of dislocations in metals.
Please send details of new appointments, honors, and awards to [email protected]
November 2004
67