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Ari Patrinos, Associate Director of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research, recently accepted an award for DOE's part in the Human Genome Project from Computerworld Magazine and the Smithsonian Institute. The 1999 Computerworld Smithsonian Innovation Awards held a "world-class wingding" on June 7 in the National Building Museum to present awards to 10 groundbreaking individuals for "innovative application of information technology to benefit society" in various categories such as education, energy, finance, medicine, and transportation. Along with the 10 Innovation Awards, the Smithsonian acknowledged eight leaders and pioneers. Patrinos received a Pioneer Award along with Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com. Patrinos took the opportunity to speak of the ramifications of private companies obtaining patents on genes. "There is something visceral," he said, "a feeling that the human genome belongs to everyone."

Andreas Acrivos, City College of the City University of New York, received the 1998 Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology from New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani March 10 at Gracie Mansion. Acrivos' Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics brings together science and engineering to explore the dynamics and transport properties of fluids, including chemically and electrically complicated fluids found in biological systems. This research is the foundation for modeling, analyzing and engineering processes based on fluid mechanics and chemistry. Acrivos is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, and he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work has been funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Engineering Research Program.

Ralph Wolfe, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will receive the 1999 Proctor & Gamble Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology during the American Society of Microbiology's general meeting in June. Wolfe is a pioneer in the field of environmental microbiology. He and his colleagues were the first to demonstrate the cooperative arrangement between microbes that produce hydrogen and microbes using that hydrogen to form methane. This laid the foundation for our current understanding of how microbial organisms convert organic matter to methane gas. His work has been funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences.

Sandia National Laboratories researcher Bernie Zak has been appointed as an advisor to the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, which promotes Arctic research and recommends its policy to the President and Congress. Zak is President of the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS), consisting of 26 U.S. and 7 foreign affiliate institutions. He also is Site Program Manager of DOE's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement North Slope of Alaska climate research site.

Phillip Ross, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has received the David C. Grahame Award from the Electrochemical Society in recognition of his significant contributions to physical electrochemistry. Ross' research includes study of the surface chemistry of electrodes, electrochemical methods of analysis, surface spectroscopy and the physical and chemical properties of electrochemical interfaces. He is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences.

The National Academy of Sciences elected 60 new members during its annual meeting in April. Election to membership recognizes distinguished and continuing achievements in original research and is considered one of the highest honors accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. The following Office of Science-supported researchers were elected: Bill Bardeen, Fermilab; Michael Phelps, University of California, Los Angeles; Joanne Chory, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Thomas Hanratty, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and Steven Lindow, University of California, Berkeley.

The National Academy of Engineering elected 80 engineers to membership on February 16. Election to the Academy is among the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer. Two are investigators supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences: William Johnson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, for development of bulk metallic glasses as structural materials; and Paul Libby, University of California, San Diego, for contributions as a researcher, author and educator who advanced knowledge of fluid dynamics, turbulence and combustion through theoretical analyses.

Suzanne Lenhart, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, will be the next president of the Association of Women in Mathematics (AWM). The AWM was established in 1971 to encourage women to study and have active careers in the mathematical sciences. Lenhart's work with Oak Ridge's Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research is funded through the Office of Basic Energy Sciences.

Three University of California, Berkeley professors were awarded the "Carl Benz Award" for the best industrial application at the SuParCup 1999 competition in Mannheim, Germany. Mark Adams, James Demmel and R. L. Taylor received the award, sponsored by DaimlerChrysler, for their paper, "Parallel Unstructured Multigrid Finite Element Solvers." Both Adams and Demmel make full use of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Demmel's work is funded through the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research.

Peter Lu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Sunney Xie, a principal investigator with the Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research (NABIR) Program, were invited to speak at a Nobel Conference on "Spectroscopy of Single Molecules in Physics, Chemistry, and Life Science." The conference was held in Stockholm, Sweden, June 5-9.

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