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Honors and Awards

John H. Marburger, III, director of Brookhaven National Laboratory was nominated by President George W. Bush to be the Director of the Office of Science and Technology and the White House Science Advisor. Marburger is also currently President of Brookhaven Science Associates. He is presently on a leave of absence from the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he served as President and Professor from 1980 to 1994 and as a University Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering from 1994 to 1997.

Marburger served as the Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California from 1976 to 1980. He has been a member of numerous professional, civic and philanthropic organizations including the Universities Research Association, the Advisory Committee to the New York State Senate Committee on Higher Education and the Board of Directors of the Museums at Stony Brook. He is a graduate of Princeton University and received a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University. More information about Dr. Marburger from Brookhaven website.


Walter L. Warnick, Director, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), received DOE's 2000 Information Technology Quality Award for Executive Leadership for his "vision and leadership in championing an aggressive effort to capitalize on technological advances in the Information Age to bring science information to the desktops of U.S. and DOE researchers." The award was presented in Atlanta, March 26, 2001, at the Annual Information Technology Conference sponsored by the Office of the Chief Information Officer of DOE.

Since becoming Director of OSTI in January 1997, Dr. Warnick has applied his research background and understanding of researchers' needs in implementing his vision of a new digital environment to make DOE's vast scientific and technical information (STI) holdings readily available to researchers. Under his leadership, PubSCIENCE, PrePRINT Network, and DOE Information Bridge are some of the world-class information tools developed to save researchers significant resources in time spent searching for information regardless of its form, format, or where it resides. PubSCIENCE provides the first gateway to journal literature in the physical sciences covering more than 900 peer-reviewed scientific journals and over 1.4 million searchable citations. PrePRINT Network is the first searchable gateway that provides single-query access to approximately 4,000 preprint servers from around the world, and the PrePRINT Alerts is the first personalized alert service that harvests information from the Deep Web, whereby underlying content is searched rather than only surface pages. DOE Information Bridge is the first system to provide searchable full-text DOE-sponsored research report literature, with over 60,000 full-text reports from 1995 forward, or almost 5 million text pages, as well as searchable bibliographic records and abstracts.


On June 2, Charles Neumeyer of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory received the "Engineer of the Year" award from the New Jersey Society of Professional Engineers at the organization's awards and installation banquet in Somerset, New Jersey, "in recognition of his outstanding achievements in engineering, contributions to the development of fusion as a long-term energy source, and notable service in enhancing the prestige of the engineering profession." Neumeyer is the lead project engineer for PPPL's National Spherical Torus Experiment, a fusion energy research device that began operating in 1999.


The Community Involvement Office at Brookhaven National Laboratory will receive the highest award of the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2). The annual award is presented to the organization that best exemplifies the spirit and purpose of public participation and shows how public participation has affected decisions. Kathy Geiger, the BNL Community Involvement Manager, and John Carter, the Brookhaven Area Office Community Affairs Director, accepted the award at IAP2's annual conference on May 7.


Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has again earned one of the Hampton Roads Sanitation District's (HRSD) Gold Pretreatment Excellence Awards for 2000. This award recognizes local organizations who have been subject to compliance requirements for a full calendar year and who have an exemplary compliance record. The Gold Award is the highest award presented by HRSD. Jefferson Laboratory experienced no administrative or technical violations, a perfect compliance record for 2000.


The Office of Assets Utilization at Oak Ridge Operations Office (OR) has won the White House "Closing the Circle" award administered by the Council on Environmental Quality, Office of the Federal Environmental Executive, for its efforts to further electronics recycling across DOE sites. This award recognized the partnership among OR, the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee, and The Oak Ridge National Recycle Center (TORNRC) that has made cost effective recovery of asset value of obsolete electronics possible. Improper disposal of electronics has been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency as the leading concern of sanitary landfills.


Edward C. Lim, Department of Chemistry, University of Akron, received the Ho-Am Prize for Science from the Samsung Foundation. This prize, the Korean equivalent of the Nobel Prize, will be awarded to Lim in Seoul, Korea, for his research in photophysics and spectroscopy that deals with electron transfer phenomena through systems of known structure. Professor Lim's work is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences.


On May 1, the National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 72 new members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Election to membership in the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer.

The following 10 recipients have been supported by the research programs of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences: Maurice S. Brookhart, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Robert J. Cava, Princeton University; F. Fleming Crim, Jr., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Alexander Dalgarno, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA; George W. Flynn, Columbia University; Robert B. Goldberg, University of California, Los Angeles; Russell J. Hemley, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC; Lonnie O'Neal Ingram, University of Florida, Gainesville; Frank M. Richter, University of Chicago; Patricia C. Zambryski, University of California, Berkeley.

The research of the following five scientists has been funded by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research: Michael L. Bender of Princeton University; Christopher B. Field of the Carnegie Institution; Inez Y. Fung and Alexander N. Glazer of the University of California, Berkeley; and William D. Nordhaus of Yale University.


Victor J. Emery, Brookhaven National Laboratory, was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Emery has made important contributions to many-body problems where a number of electrons, atoms, or particles are involved. These include an early prediction (with A. Sessler) of superfluidity in Helium-3; theories of one-dimensional quantum systems; the theory (with Blume and Griffiths) of the phase separation in Helium-3 Helium-4 mixtures; and significant theoretical efforts to explain the origin of high temperature superconductors. His work is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Materials Sciences and Engineering Division.


Herman Z. Cummins, City College of New York, was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Professor Cummins invented laser Doppler velocimetry and pioneered light-scattering techniques to study diffusion, size, and shape of particles in solution. His elegant experiments have provided insight on phase transitions, interfacial phenomena in melting, scaling near critical points, excitons in semiconductors, biological particles in solution, and liquid-glass forming systems. His work has been supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences' Materials Sciences and Engineering Division.


Steven Allan Kivelson, University of California, Los Angeles, was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Professor Kivelson has made seminal contributions to one-dimensional electronic systems of polymers, the global phase diagram for the Quantum Hall Effect, spin polarized Quantum Hall systems, charge and spin excitations in antiferromagnetic materials, and the striped phase model of high temperature superconductivity. His work is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Materials Sciences and Engineering Division.


Mark A. Ratner, Northwestern University, was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Professor Ratner has formulated theoretical frameworks for guidance in experimental studies of solid electrolytes, ionic conduction, molecular optics, coherent and incoherent molecular transport, molecular rectifiers and molecular electronics. He has elucidated electron transfer in nucleic acids and in proteins. He has developed molecular modeling and computational techniques to predict the behavior of large molecules, natural as well as synthetic. His work has been supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences' Materials Sciences and Engineering Division.


Kenneth N. Raymond, University of California, Berkeley, was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Professor Raymond has used metal-substituted transport agents and synthetic ligand analogs in the elucidation of cellular transport mechanisms. He has developed sequestering agents specific for individual metal ions, especially iron, the lathanides and the actinides. His work has been supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences' Materials Sciences and Engineering Division.


Morton M. Denn, City College of New York, to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Professor Denn made pioneering and groundbreaking contributions to the science and engineering of polymeric materials and to the elucidation of their behavior under flow. His work has been supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences' Materials Sciences and Engineering Division.


Tony Maxworthy, University of Southern California, was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Professor Maxworthy studies fluid dynamics appropriate to geophysics. His specialty is the conception, design, and implementation of key laboratory experiments that capture the essence of important phenomena. Some examples include strong solitary waves associated with the collapse of mixed regions, coastal upwelling, and mechanisms of breakdown of vortex lines and rings. His work is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division.


Sashi Satpathy, University of Missouri, was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for contributions to the understanding of complex materials using first-principles electron structure calculations." Professor Satpathy's research is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, and he acknowledges this support as contributing to the success of his work.


Todd A. Palmer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, received the Geoffrey Belton Award of the Iron & Steel Society for best doctoral thesis submitted during 1999-2000. Dr. Palmer's Ph.D. thesis in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State is entitled "Nitrogen in Plasmas and Steel Weld Metal." His work was supported under a research grant to Professor Tarasankar DebRoy from the Office of Basic Energy Sciences' Materials Sciences and Engineering Division.


Stan A. David, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was elected to Fellow by the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society "for significant advancement of welding science and technology through pioneering and definitive research and continued leadership and service to the materials joining community worldwide." Dr. David's research has been funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences' Materials Sciences and Engineering Division.


Carl C. Koch, North Carolina State University, was elected to Fellow by the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society "for contributions to the understanding of mechanical alloying and mechanical attrition for the preparation of amorphous and nanostructured alloys." Professor Koch's research has been funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences' Materials Sciences and Engineering Division.


John W. Morris, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was elected to Fellow by the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society "for broad and outstanding contributions to metallurgy and materials science, including phase transformations, cryogenic steels and superalloys, electromigration, and joining in electronic packaging." Dr. Morris' research has been funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences' Materials Sciences and Engineering Division.


Gregory B. Olson, Northwestern University, was elected to Fellow by the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society "for advances in the physical metallurgy of steel, pioneering contributions to materials design, and application of design concepts to engineering education." Professor Olson's research has been funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences' Materials Sciences and Engineering Division.


Paul Chu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was awarded the John Fritz Medal by the American Association of Engineering Societies for "Outstanding Research Accomplishments and Dedicated Leadership in High Temperature Superconductor Materials Science and Technology." Dr. Chu's research has been funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences' Materials Sciences and Engineering Division.


Albert W. Castleman, Jr., Pennsylvania State University, received the Jost Memorial Award from the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellshaft fur Physikalische Chemie (German Society for Physical Chemistry). The award honors the memory of famous kineticist and solid-state chemist Wilhelm Jost and includes a lectureship tour of the seven universities in Germany where Jost spent his career. Professor Castleman's research focuses upon clusters and why matter of nanoscale dimensions behaves differently from large systems. His group created the first Met-Cars system, a combination of a carbon-containing sphere with a metal atom in the interior. His research has been supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences' Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Divisions.


Nora Volkow, Brookhaven National Laboratory, is one of two women to receive the New York State Senate's "Woman of Distinction" award at a special reception in Albany on June 5. Created in celebration of Women's History Month, the award honors women throughout New York State whose accomplishments or contributions to society often go unnoticed. Senator Kenneth P. LaValle chose Dr. Volkow as one of two honorees from the First Senate District. She is a world leader in research on addiction.


Shirley Tilghman has been elected Princeton University's nineteenth President. Professor Tilghman has been a member of Princeton University faculty since 1986 and is a scholar in the field of molecular biology. She will take office on June 15.


Princeton University has reappointed Robert J. Goldston to a second four-year term as Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, effective July 1.


Roger Kornberg of Stanford University received the Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry for 2001. He is being honored for his research into the structure of the proteins and molecular machines that carry out the conversion of the genetic code into the signals to make specific proteins in living cells. Two cellular components responsible for translating gene sequences have been the major focus of his research: the nucleosome, which contains the cell's chromosomes, and RNA polymerase, which transcribes the genetic information in the DNA sequence into messenger RNA to synthesize proteins. Many of the structural studies have been carried out at the Department of Energy synchrotron light sources, especially at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL). Two new papers from the Kornberg group on RNA polymerase II reporting on structures determined at SSRL have just been published in Science. This award is presented annually by the Robert A Welch Foundation of Houston, Texas, in recognition of lifetime accomplishments in the chemical sciences and includes an honorarium of $300,000.


David E. Kuhl, M.D., Professor of Radiology, Chief of the Division of Nuclear Medicine, and Director of the PET Center at the University of Michigan B Ann Arbor, MI; and Michael E. Phelps, Ph.D., Norton Simon Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; are among the five world-renowned scientists who have been recognized by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation (GMCRF) for their seminal contributions to cancer research. Dr. Kuhl and Dr. Phelps are the co-winners of the Charles F. Kettering Prize for their involvement in the development of positron emission tomography (PET). The Kettering Prize recognizes the most outstanding recent contribution to the diagnosis or treatment of cancer. Dr. Kuhl and Dr. Phelps received a gold medal and shared a $250,000 award. Both recipients have had long-standing research support from the Office of Biological and Environmental Research involving PET and medical applications of PET for diagnosis and therapy.


David A. Payne, Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, was awarded the 2001 International Prize by the Japan Fine Ceramics Association in recognition of a distinguished career of achievement in ceramic science. The citation notes his leading role and outstanding achievements in the processing of electronic ceramics including the atomic scale characterization of piezoelectric and dielectric materials and the development of ceramic thin film synthesis by sol-gel methods. Professor Payne was also recognized for his leadership role in the Electronic Division of the American Ceramic Society and his role in organizing and chairing many international conferences that have contributed to the dissemination of information in the field. His research has been supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences' Materials Sciences and Engineering Division.

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