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Cooley becomes IOP fellow Lance Cooley, an associate scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP). He is recognized for his high level of achievement in physics and contributions as an editorial board member of an IOP journal. Cooley is currently investigating superconductivity in MgB2 and the phenomenon of flux pinning. Election results Joseph H. Eberly, Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics and Professor of Optics at the University of Rochester, has been elected vice president of the Optical Society of America for 2005. Eberly will automatically become president elect in the following year and the society’s president in 2007. Christopher Dainty of the National University of Ireland, Peter J. Delfyett of the University of Central Florida, and Donna Strickland of the University of Waterloo, Canada have also been elected as directors at large for a term of three years. Center for nano education A Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NCLT) will be established at Northwestern University with a five-year, $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The center will train scientist-educators to introduce nanoscience into school and undergraduate classrooms. It will create education materials for existing curricula at grades 7-12 with expanded versions for community colleges and undergraduate institutions. The NCLT, to be headed by Robert P. H. Chang of Northwestern, is a partnership between Northwestern, four other universities (Purdue, Michigan, Illinois at Chicago, and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Argonne National Laboratory. Grant pushes the limits Dmitri Litvinov and Jack Wolfe of the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston have received $1.1 million from the NSF to investigate the physical limits of magnetic data storage. They hope to achieve the first nanopatterned medium recording at the scale of one terabyte per square inch.
Bates honored by MRS
Society announces 2005 awards
The 2004 winner of the Materials Research Society’s (MRS) David Turnbull Lectureship is Frank S. Bates, head of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Minnesota. The award recognizes his ‘pioneering contributions to the fundamental Frank S. Bates of the University of understanding of the Minnesota. structure and properties of complex polymeric materials’. Bates is also honored for his lecturing, writing, and teaching.
The American Physical Society has announced its prizewinners for 2005, including a number of scientists involved in condensed matter research.
“I am deeply honored to receive the David Turnbull Lectureship,” says Bates. “This award reflects the contributions of many students, postdocs, and other colleagues whom I have had the privilege to work with over the last 25 years.” The recipients of MRS Medals for 2004 have also been announced. Jacob N. Israelachvili of the University of California, Santa Barbara is recognized for his work on the molecular mechanisms responsible for adhesion and friction. Toh-Ming Lu of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Sunil K. Sinha of the University of California, San Diego and Los Alamos National Laboratory are rewarded for their research on morphology evolution during thin film growth.
Manchester hopes bigger is better The newest university in the UK is also the biggest. Formed by the merger of UMIST and the Victoria University of Manchester, the University of Manchester has formally come into existence after receiving its Royal Charter from the Queen. The new institution aims to use its combined size and resources to compete on a global scale. This goal will be aided by $550 million in capital investment. “Our aim is to make the University of Manchester one of the top 25 research-led universities in the world,” says Alan Gilbert, president and vice chancellor of the new university. “It will take its place confidently alongside those virtuoso institutions in its research capability and performance, in the quality of the students and staff that it attracts, and in the reputation for scholarly excellence that it secures.”
Two of the winners are at the University of California, Berkeley. Ramamoorthy Ramesh receives the David Adler Lectureship Award for his contribution to the understanding of ferroelectric materials and discovery of colossal magnetoresistance. Yuri Suzuki’s research on oxide thin films and nanostructures is recognized with the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award. Gabriel Aeppli of University College London, David D. Awschalom of University of California, Santa Barbara, and Myriam P. Sarachik of City College of New York are rewarded with the Oliver E. Buckley Prize for the study of spin coherence in condensed matter systems. Yoshinori Tokura of the University of Tokyo wins the James C. McGroddy Prize for the synthesis of transition metal oxides with unusual charge and spin order. Uzi Landman of Georgia Institute of Technology receives the Aneesur Rahman Prize for his computational studies of material properties.
Regenerative medicine wins grant Samuel I. Stupp is to lead a $7.5 million effort at Northwestern University to develop regenerative medicine approaches for the treatment of paralysis and diabetes. A team of seven scientists, engineers, and physicians will use the five-year grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the National Institutes of Health to develop effective synthetic scaffolds and understand their interaction with cells. “Regenerative medicine is one of the great biomedical challenges of this century as we seek to regenerate parts of the human body lost to trauma, disease, and genetic factors,” explains Stupp, director of Northwestern’s Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine. “New technologies from physical sciences and engineering, coupled with knowledge in advanced cell biology, are required to make this happen.”
California move for Van de Walle Chris G. Van de Walle has joined the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara as professor of computational materials. Previously a principal scientist at Palo Alto Research Center, Van de Walle will focus his research on novel electronic materials, wide band gap semiconductors, oxides, and hydrogen in materials.
Please send details of new appointments, honors, and awards to [email protected]
December 2004
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Cooley becomes IOP fellow Lance Cooley, an associate scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP). He is recognized for his high level of achievement in physics and contributions as an editorial board member of an IOP journal. Cooley is currently investigating superconductivity in MgB2 and the phenomenon of flux pinning. Election results Joseph H. Eberly, Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics and Professor of Optics at the University of Rochester, has been elected vice president of the Optical Society of America for 2005. Eberly will automatically become president elect in the following year and the society’s president in 2007. Christopher Dainty of the National University of Ireland, Peter J. Delfyett of the University of Central Florida, and Donna Strickland of the University of Waterloo, Canada have also been elected as directors at large for a term of three years. Center for nano education A Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NCLT) will be established at Northwestern University with a five-year, $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The center will train scientist-educators to introduce nanoscience into school and undergraduate classrooms. It will create education materials for existing curricula at grades 7-12 with expanded versions for community colleges and undergraduate institutions. The NCLT, to be headed by Robert P. H. Chang of Northwestern, is a partnership between Northwestern, four other universities (Purdue, Michigan, Illinois at Chicago, and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Argonne National Laboratory. Grant pushes the limits Dmitri Litvinov and Jack Wolfe of the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston have received $1.1 million from the NSF to investigate the physical limits of magnetic data storage. They hope to achieve the first nanopatterned medium recording at the scale of one terabyte per square inch.
Bates honored by MRS
Society announces 2005 awards
The 2004 winner of the Materials Research Society’s (MRS) David Turnbull Lectureship is Frank S. Bates, head of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Minnesota. The award recognizes his ‘pioneering contributions to the fundamental Frank S. Bates of the University of understanding of the Minnesota. structure and properties of complex polymeric materials’. Bates is also honored for his lecturing, writing, and teaching.
The American Physical Society has announced its prizewinners for 2005, including a number of scientists involved in condensed matter research.
“I am deeply honored to receive the David Turnbull Lectureship,” says Bates. “This award reflects the contributions of many students, postdocs, and other colleagues whom I have had the privilege to work with over the last 25 years.” The recipients of MRS Medals for 2004 have also been announced. Jacob N. Israelachvili of the University of California, Santa Barbara is recognized for his work on the molecular mechanisms responsible for adhesion and friction. Toh-Ming Lu of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Sunil K. Sinha of the University of California, San Diego and Los Alamos National Laboratory are rewarded for their research on morphology evolution during thin film growth.
Manchester hopes bigger is better The newest university in the UK is also the biggest. Formed by the merger of UMIST and the Victoria University of Manchester, the University of Manchester has formally come into existence after receiving its Royal Charter from the Queen. The new institution aims to use its combined size and resources to compete on a global scale. This goal will be aided by $550 million in capital investment. “Our aim is to make the University of Manchester one of the top 25 research-led universities in the world,” says Alan Gilbert, president and vice chancellor of the new university. “It will take its place confidently alongside those virtuoso institutions in its research capability and performance, in the quality of the students and staff that it attracts, and in the reputation for scholarly excellence that it secures.”
Two of the winners are at the University of California, Berkeley. Ramamoorthy Ramesh receives the David Adler Lectureship Award for his contribution to the understanding of ferroelectric materials and discovery of colossal magnetoresistance. Yuri Suzuki’s research on oxide thin films and nanostructures is recognized with the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award. Gabriel Aeppli of University College London, David D. Awschalom of University of California, Santa Barbara, and Myriam P. Sarachik of City College of New York are rewarded with the Oliver E. Buckley Prize for the study of spin coherence in condensed matter systems. Yoshinori Tokura of the University of Tokyo wins the James C. McGroddy Prize for the synthesis of transition metal oxides with unusual charge and spin order. Uzi Landman of Georgia Institute of Technology receives the Aneesur Rahman Prize for his computational studies of material properties.
Regenerative medicine wins grant Samuel I. Stupp is to lead a $7.5 million effort at Northwestern University to develop regenerative medicine approaches for the treatment of paralysis and diabetes. A team of seven scientists, engineers, and physicians will use the five-year grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the National Institutes of Health to develop effective synthetic scaffolds and understand their interaction with cells. “Regenerative medicine is one of the great biomedical challenges of this century as we seek to regenerate parts of the human body lost to trauma, disease, and genetic factors,” explains Stupp, director of Northwestern’s Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine. “New technologies from physical sciences and engineering, coupled with knowledge in advanced cell biology, are required to make this happen.”
California move for Van de Walle Chris G. Van de Walle has joined the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara as professor of computational materials. Previously a principal scientist at Palo Alto Research Center, Van de Walle will focus his research on novel electronic materials, wide band gap semiconductors, oxides, and hydrogen in materials.
Please send details of new appointments, honors, and awards to [email protected]
December 2004
67