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PeopleHonors and AwardsRoland F. Hirsch, a program manager in the Office of Environmental and Biological Research's Medical Sciences Division, received the American Chemical Society's Division of Analytical Chemistry Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Analytical Chemistry at the ACS National Meeting in Washington, D.C., in August. He is the third recipient of the annual award, presented for professional service that has Asubstantially and uniquely enhanced the field of analytical chemistry." Sidney Drell, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's emeritus Deputy Director, received the University of California's Presidential Medal for his contributions to the University of California and the three laboratories managed by the university (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory). Drell is a high-energy physicist and arms control expert, recognized for his contributions and support to the laboratories in their commitment to superior science and technology and the successful development of the Stockpile Stewardship Program. Mike Nastasi was named a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow in recognition of his co-authorship of a widely used textbook entitled "Ion Beam Processing: Fundamentals and Applications," and development of a new method for surface modification of materials called Plasma Immersion Ion Processing (PIIP). Nastasi is funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering. Helen Quinn, theoretical physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), was awarded the 2000 Dirac Medal and Prize for pioneering contributions to the quest for a unified theory of quarks and leptons and of the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions. The award recognized Quinn for her work on the unification of the three interactions, and for fundamental insights about charge-parity conservation. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics bestows the award yearly on the August 8 birthday of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, who shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in physics with Erwin Schrödinger. David Haussler, a computer scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has just been made an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a prestigious recognition not only of Haussler but also of the importance of computational biology to interpreting the human genome. Haussler's work on the analysis of human genome sequence has been supported by the DOE Human Genome Project. Len Barrie, Chief Atmospheric Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for his work in the Climate and Atmospheric Science Research Directorate of Environment Canada where he led a number of scientific studies on long range transport of air pollution and atmospheric chemistry. Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada is considered Canada's senior academic accolade to which scholars and scientists aspire. Jan A. D. Zeevaart, Michigan State University/DOE Plant Research Laboratory, was awarded the 2000 Steven Hales Prize by the American Society of Plant Physiologists. Zeevaart has been an active contributor to understanding the molecular mechanisms by which plant hormones mediate effects of the environment on processes such as flowering, growth, and protective responses to drought. His work is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Energy Biosciences program. Bruno Coppi of Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been named AGrand Officer@ of the Italian Republic by the President of Italy, Dr A. Ciampi. He has thus joined the ranks of the Order of Merit of the Republic, which was founded to recognize meritorious achievement in the fields of science, the arts and letters, and economics. Coppi has made numerous contributions to Fusion Physics, and he is also very active and well known in the field of astrophysics. Steven E. Lindow, University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the 2000 Procter & Gamble Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology by the American Academy of Microbiology for his pioneering work in the field of environmental microbiology and his work has helped shape the scientific direction of this field. His work has received support from the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Energy Biosciences program. Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado, was awarded a 2000 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication to their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. "Murnane works at the leading edge of applied optical physics. She has made important strides in three aspects of laser pulse generation: brevity, power, and frequency. These advances hold significant implications for understanding the physical basis for the interaction of light and matter, as well as for practical engineering applications." Professor Murnane's work on the optimization of high-harmonic generation for soft x-ray generation is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division. Tobin J. Marks, Texas A&M University, was awarded the 2000 F.A. Cotton Medal by the American Chemical Society for his "masterful and varied contributions to inorganic and organometallic chemistry." The Cotton Medal is one of seven gold medals bestowed nationwide as local American Chemical Society section awards. Marks' work in organometallic chemistry is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division. Marks was also awarded the 1999 Paolo Chini Medal by the Italian Chemical Society for outstanding research in the field of inorganic chemistry. It is named in honor of the late Italian cluster chemist Paolo Chini and was presented to Marks at the Society's annual meeting in Rimini in June. Hongyou Fan, Sandia National Laboratories, was awarded the Silver Medal in the Graduate Research Award Competition sponsored by the Materials Research Society to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research displays a high order of excellence and distinction." Fan investigated various fundamental aspects of self-assembling mesoporous ceramics, including inks that assemble to form ordered, nanoscopic porosity. Fan's work was funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Materials Sciences program. Hank Foley, University of Delaware, received the New York Catalysis Society Excellence in Catalysis Award from the Metropolitan New York Catalysis Society, sponsored by Exxon Mobil Research and Engineering, for his research in rhodium and molybdenum supported metals, hydrogen permeselective membranes, and especially, nanoporous carbon for separations and catalysis. The award is given yearly to recognize outstanding contributions in either applied or basic research in either heterogeneous or homogeneous catalysis. Foley's work is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Chemical Sciences program. John Yates, University of Pittsburgh, was appointed to the Linnett Visiting Professorship by Cambridge University's Chemistry Department. The award is the highest honor Cambridge University's Chemistry Department can bestow on a foreign scientist. It recognizes Yate's broad contribution to the field of surface chemistry. His studies have had strong implications for a wide variety of applications including catalysis, corrosion prevention, semiconductor processing and nanotechnology. The award paid for him to teach at Cambridge in May. Yates is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Chemical Sciences program. Sam Canzone, Sandia National Laboratories, won the Norbert J. Kreidl Award for Young Scholars from the American Ceramic Society (ACERS) for his work on the "Development of Phosphate Glass Microspheres for Medical Applications." Canzone performed part of his graduate research as a student intern at Sandia National Laboratories with his work resulting in the publications of several manuscripts involving the characterization of phosphate glass. His work was funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering. Jean M.J. Frechet, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences "contributions to the advancement of the chemistry of functional macromolecules through fundamental studies, the development of broadly applicable synthetic methods, and the exploration of novel applications." Frechet was also recently elected to membership in both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering "for contributions to the discovery, development, and engineering of new materials for microlithography and separation technologies." His work is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering. Alexei A. Abrikosov, Argonne National Laboratory, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his many fundamental contributions to condensed matter physics. He is widely known as the inventor of the superconducting vortex, the fundamental concept underlying all of our understanding of the properties of superconductors in magnetic fields. His work is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering. Kenneth Eisenthal, Columbia University, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his work in using non-linear spectroscopies such as second harmonic generation (SHG) to monitor the electronic and orientational dynamics of species at interfaces which is the molecularly thin region that separates two bulk media; e.g., air-liquid, liquid-liquid and solid-liquid interfaces. Eisenthal is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Chemical Sciences Program. Joanne Chory, Salk Institute, received the L'Oreal-Helena Rubinstein "For Women in Science" Award for her pioneering work in the application of molecular genetics to the study of plant growth and developmental response to light. Her work with isolating and characterizing mutants of the model plant Arabidopsis has led to a partial elucidation of the complex pathway by which a plant receives and interprets a light signal to control developmental pathways that involve the action of plant hormones. The "For Women in Science" program, part of a partnership between UNESCO and L'Oreal for years 1999 to 2004, has the goal of promoting women scientists and giving them greater visibility in life sciences. Chory's work is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Energy Biosciences program. Jonathan Dorfan, physicist and Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), and Michael Peskin, Professor of Theoretical High Energy Physics at SLAC, were recently elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their distinguished intellectual achievements. Dorfan has led the B-factory project since 1994. His areas of research are experimental particle physics and accelerator design. Peskin works on models of symmetry-breaking and electroweak gauge theory and methods, and is the co-author of a 1995 quantum mechanics textbook. Their work is supported by the Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics. Isabel M. Fisenne, Environmental Measurements Laboratory, has been selected as a Fellow of the Health Physics Society. This award is presented to senior members of the Society in recognition of significant administrative, educational and/or scientific contributions to the profession of health physics. Darleane Hoffman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, received the 2000 American Chemical Society (ACS) Priestley Award, the highest honor of the ACS. She is only the second woman to receive the award in the 125-year history of the ACS. The award recognizes her work investigating chemical properties of the heaviest elements on a one-atom-at-a-time basis that has been important in elucidating the placement of those elements in the periodic table. She was also honored for her contribution to education in the field of nuclear and radiochemistry. In 1999, Hoffman was a member of the team that discovered elements 118 and 116. She called this discovery "one of the most exciting of my career" because the radioactive decay patterns of 118 and 116 provided strong support for the existence of the "island of stability" that theorists have long predicted for superheavy elements. Her work is supported by the Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics. Festschrift honors Harold Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for his work of 30 years ago when he alerted the public that exhaust from supersonic aircraft like the Concorde might damage the stratospheric ozone layer. It was fitting that the kick-off topic in the American Chemical Society Division of Physical Chemistry "festschrift" honoring Johnston on his 80th birthday should focus on the latest assessment of the potential effects of a fleet of modern high-speed aircraft on the atmosphere. Five Nobel laureates, including Paul Crutzen (MPI-Mainz), Dudley Hershbach (Harvard University), and Mario Molina (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), spoke at the symposium. The Harold S. Johnston Lectureship at the University of California, Berkeley (an annual lectureship in physical or atmospheric chemistry to be inaugurated in the 2000-01 academic year), was announced. A special issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry in honor of Johnston will feature many of the papers and posters presented at the symposium. Johnston's research has been supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences within the Office of Science. Jonathan V. Sweedler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded the inaugural Gill Prize in Instrumentation and Measurement Science for his innovative research in scaling analytical chemical techniques to nanoliter or smaller volumes to allow the study of neuroactive compounds in cellular micro environments. This research has led to micro scale instrumentation for nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry, mass spectrometry, and fluorescence spectroscopy that can measure neurotransmitters, peptides, and other molecules in localized segments of single cells. Similar concepts are being used to develop integrated micro fabricated DNA analyzers using molecular gate technology with support from the Genome Instrumentation Research program of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research. The Gill Prize is awarded by the Linda and Jack Gill Center for Instrumentation and Measurement Science at Indiana University. William B. Whitman, Department of Microbiology at the University of Georgia, received the 1999 Bergey Award from the Bergey's Manual Trust. The Bergey Award honors an individual for outstanding contributions to bacterial taxonomy, the science of classification of bacterial species according to evolutionary, genetic, and phenotypic relationships. Whitman has expanded his initial focus on the biochemistry of Methanococcus to study virtually all aspects of this methanogenic microbe, including metabolic pathways, genetics, habitat, ecology, phylogeny, and taxonomy. The Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Energy Biosciences program has provided a decade of support to Whitman's research on the fundamental mechanisms by which Methanococcus converts such one-carbon compounds as CO2 and methanol to methane. Hai-Lung Dai, University of Pennsylvania, has been named a Guggenheim Fellow. Guggenheim Fellows are "appointed on the basis of unusually impressive achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment." The Fellowship includes funds "to engage in creation in any of the arts or to do research in any field of knowledge under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed." Professor Dai's research in the field of chemical dynamics has been supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Chemical Sciences program for about 15 years. Kenneth M. Kemner, Argonne National Laboratory, has won both the DOE Office of Science Early Career Award in Science and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for his "seminal contributions in the development and application of high energy X-ray synchrotron radiation techniques to materials and environmental science." This research has lead to a new understanding of microbe-metal interactions and could lead to new environmental biotechnologies for cleanup of hazardous waste. Kemner is a principal investigator in both the Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research (NABIR) Program and the Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP). Paul Linfield Richards, University of California, Berkeley, has been awarded the 2000 Frank Isakson Prize by the American Physical Society "for his development of innovative infrared techniques and pioneering research in far-infrared spectroscopy." Richards' research in superconducting materials and infrared technique development is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Materials Sciences and Engineering Division. 1999 Fellows of the American Physical Society are Nora Berrah, Western Michigan University, "for high-resolution work on few and many electron systems using lasers and synchrotron radiation leading to a better understanding of the interaction of light with matter"; Bruce Garrett, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, "for contributions to the development of rate theories for polyatomic reactions in the gas-phase and the study of the kinetics of important environmental processes"; Alfred Msezane, Clark Atlanta University, "for continuing outstanding contributions to theoretical atomic physics, particularly the elucidation of small angle electron scattering through innovative theoretical approaches"; Art Nozik, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, "for his leadership role in the basic science of semiconductor-molecule interfaces, quantization effects in semiconductors, and applications of these interdisciplinary sciences to photon conversion"; Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory, "for precision measurements in atomic structure and the development of laser-driven polarized hydrogen and deuterium sources." Their research is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Chemical Sciences Program. William J. Koros, BFGoodrich Professor in Materials Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his research in polymer membranes. His work is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division. Robin D. Rogers, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, has been appointed editor of the American Chemical Society's (ACS) new journal Crystal Growth & Design. ACS will begin publishing the journal in January 2001, initially offering six issues per year and then shifting to a monthly schedule. Rogers' research in the use of aqueous biphasic systems for chemical separations is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division. Mei Bei, Indiana University, has been awarded the 2000 American Physical Society Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Beam Physics. Her thesis "Overcoming Spin Intrinsic Resonance by Using an RF Dipole" is for work in the theory, experimental demonstration, and clear explanation of a method using an RF dipole for overcoming intrinsic spin resonances in polarized proton acceleration. Bei is currently a research associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory working on a project using RF dipoles for linear and non-linear beam dynamics studies and spin manipulation at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Her thesis work at Indiana University was supported by a grant with the Office of Science's Division of High Energy Physics. Gennady Shvets of the Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for her work on "Theoretical Investigations of the Plasma-Based Particle Accelerators," supported by the Office of Science's Division of High Energy Physics. Merril Heit, Environmental Measurements Laboratory scientist, received an award from Rita Colwell, Director of the National Science Foundation, in recognition of his service to the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC). Heit, the DOE staff representative to the IARPC has been responsible for developing and completing the U.S. Arctic Research Plan, planning and organizing workshops and meetings, preparing policy statements and reports to Congress and the Office of Management and Budget, and providing information for the IARPC journal, "Arctic Research of the United States." Y. Austin Chang, University of Wisconsin, received the 2000 John Bardeen Award from the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society "for his seminal contributions to understanding of metal/compound semiconductor interactions." Chang's research has been recognized by numerous invitations to speak at Gordon Conferences, international symposia, other universities, and national laboratories. He spent the summer as an invited summer faculty member at the Quantum Research Initiative Group at H&P Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, where he worked on quantum dots and wires, with the ultimate goal of making molecular computers. Chang's work supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering. Pablo G. Debenedetti, Department of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for his microscopic theory and insight embodied in a scholarly monograph, and application of supercritical and metastable fluids. 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