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Awards
and Fellows
A
hearty congratulations to Michael (Mike) D. Miller, who
has been made a Fellow of the American Physical Society. The
citation for his award reads: "For insightful contributions
to the theoretical description and the interpretation of experimental
data of quantum fluid mixtures and mixture films."
Tom
Dickinson has been elected to the rank of AAS Fellow (American
Association for the Advancement of Science). The award
in part read: "Each year the Council elects members
whose 'efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or
its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished.'
The honor of being elected a Fellow of AAS began in 1874 and
is acknowledged with a certificate and a rosette.'
Grants
and Contracts
New
faculty member, John Blakeslee has received his first
grant through WSU. The grant is from Space Telescope Science
Institute for $48,983/year for two years for a total of $97,966.
The title of the grant is "Measurements of Surface Brightness
Fluctuations Gradients in Normal and Peculiar Early-type Galaxies".
Most impressive is that the grant arrived in Pullman before
he did!
John
received a second grant worth $21,381 from the Space Telescope
Science Institute, "Resolving the Connection Between Globular
clusters and Low-mass X-ray Binaries". These two grants are
in addition to his three grants totaling $279,545, which he
transferred to WSU upon his arrival from John Hopkins University.
Gary
Collins has received a $500,000, four-year grant by the
National Science Foundation to study "Lattice Locations of
Impurity Atoms and Diffusion of Atoms in Intermetallic Compounds".
This is his sixth consecutive single-investigator grant award
from the NSF since coming to WSU, with a funding total over
$2M.
Tom
Dickinson has been awarded a $5,000 REU (Research Experience
for Undergraduates) grant for summer 2006. The title of his
research topic is: "Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of Tribochemical
Phenomena".
Mark
Kuzyk received an AT&T one-year grant for $80,000
entitled, "Materials with Enhanced Two-Photon Cross-Sections
for Optical Limiting".
Philip Marston has a renewed Navy grant worth $215,000
for work entitled, "Scattering of Evanescent Acoustic
Waves by Regular and Irregular Objects". The grant is
for three more years, $71,000 for the first year and $72,000
each for years two and three.
Matthew
McCluskey has received a Department of Energy grant with
University of Georgia. The grant runs for three years, WSU's
portion is $40,000 per year, for a total of $120,207. Matt
is also the recipient of an Summer 2006 REU for $10,500 to
study "Local Vibrational Modes of Impurities in Semiconductors."
The REU is connected to his NSF grant.
Steve
Tomsovic received one additional year of funding at $60,000
to continue studies on "Range Dependent Properties Due to
the Ocean's Internal Waves in Deep Water." The extension is
part of a grant dating back to 1997.
Guy
Worthey has received a grant from the Space Telescope
Science Institute for his work on "The Ancient Stars of M32".
The grant runs for two years for a total of $51,656. Exceptionally
noteworthy is the fact that Guy applied for this grant back
in the spring of 2002 and was awarded the money in 2005!
Other
Good News
Graduate
student, Aaron Rogan, was selected to participate (all
expenses paid) as a teaching assistant at the 2005 Summer
School in Gravitational Astronomy in June, hosted by the Center
for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Brownsville, Texas. (He
had applied for enrollment as a student, but was recruited
as a TA instead, based on his qualifications and research
publication.) He later was awarded a $450 Graduate School
Travel Grant to attend the 10th annual Gravitational Wave
Data Analysis Workshop in Brownsville. He has presented material
at the last two conferences that have led to one publication
and another waiting for publication
Final note..
Thank
you to everyone who contributed toward the "care package"
for Army Lieutenant, Bryan Morgan (B.S. May, 2004).
The package was sent late last week and he should be receiving
his lights, books, candy, phone cards, etc very soon.
Current
Issue of "Physics Matters" newsletter (2006):
PDF
Past Issues of "Physics
Matters" newsletters:
2004: PDF
2002: PDF
2000: PDF
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