Faculty
Adjunct professor Lali Chatterjee is keeping busy with a new grant from the NSF Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education (POWRE) program and a new book. Her grant funds research on "Neutrino Induced Pair Production and its Significance." Her book, The Exotic Life-Styles of Subatomic Particles, was published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company in August and reaches out to non-science majors, introductory science students, and interested people of all ages, genders, and backgrounds. More information is available at http://www.kendallhunt.com.
Dr. Stuart Elston is one of the first four volunteer readers in the College of Arts and Sciences Volunteer Readers Program. Launched in September, this is the latest of several enrichment programs UT has brought to Maynard Elementary School in Knoxville. Dr. Elston is also participating in the college's "Scholars-in-the-Schools" program for the second consecutive year. Faculty members in this program spend 8-12 hours each week in an assigned Knox County School. They help with curriculum development in their respective areas of expertise, broadening students' learning opportunities and fostering professional development for the teachers.
Professor Witek Nazarewicz is one of the nuclear physicists at ORNL's Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (HRIBF) who have identified a new form of radioactivity-simultaneous emission of two protons from the decaying nucleus of an atom. The discovery will help physicists get a clearer picture of the nuclear force that holds protons and neutrons together in the nucleus. An in-depth explanation is available at ORNL Review online (http://www.ornl.gov/ORNLReview/v33_2_00/features.htm).
Dr. Ward Plummer was one of the scientists who discovered superconducting material with a magnetic phase, the first-ever discovery of superconductivity coexisting with magnetism. The work was performed with colleagues at the Joint Research Center for Atom Technologies in Japan and was written up in the August 4 issue of Science. His on-campus materials science research collaborations were also featured in the Winter 2001 issue of Tennessee Alumnus.
Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Read and his family on the arrival of daughter Claire Cecile, born October 13, 2000.
Students
Good luck to the physics department's newest graduates! They are:
Spring 2000
Randy Greenway (B.S.)
Zhiyu (Jerry) Hu (Ph.D.)
Mike Lane (B.S.)
Cathy Large (M.S.)
Lin Lin (Ph.D.)
Andrei Oparin (Ph.D.)
Kyle Peterson (M.S.)
Pasquale Rinaldi (B.S.)
Yuxing Sun (Ph.D.)
Summer 2000
Ivan Dors (Ph.D.)
Ali Maysam (M.S.)
Dmitri Onoprienko (Ph.D.)
Ali Passian (Ph.D.)
Andy Wig (Ph.D.)
Fall 2000
Hani Dulli (Ph.D.)
Wei Ku (Ph.D.)
Steve Mahan (Ph.D.)
Shannon Mahurin (Ph.D.)
Anatoli Melechko (Ph.D.)
Bronson Messer (Ph.D.)
Jay Sullivan (Ph.D.)
Kwonjae Yoo (Ph.D.)
Congratulations are also in order to the following graduate students who successfully completed their comprehensive examinations during the Fall 2000 term:
Mathias Boddicker
Dane Gillaspie
Andy Glenn
Zhanwen Ma
Wenhong Qin
Izabela Szlvfarska
Omar Zeidan
Alumni
Sam Held (M.S., Summer 1999) completed a second master's degree in education in August. He was also a math instructor for UT's Governor's School Program last summer and is currently teaching math (Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, and Geometry) at Jefferson Middle School in the Oak Ridge System.
Zhiyu (Jerry) Hu (Ph.D., Spring 2000) is the Head of the Microfabrication Unit at Protiveris, Inc., in Rockville, Maryland. Jerry was also among the honorees at the first UT-Battelle Awards night at ORNL on November 9. His former group won a Development Accomplishment Award for developing a new class of coatingless chemical sensors and demonstrating the concept for explosive vapor detection. The work was also one of the night's "Of the Year" winners.
R. Lee Kernell (Ph.D., 1968) retired in 1994 as professor of physics at Old Dominion University. He stayed on as director of ODU's Young Scholar Program (funded by NSF) until 1997. During his tenure, Dr. Kernell received the Tonelson Award, the highest honor bestowed by ODU on a faculty member. In 1989 he was named the state of Virginia's Professor of the Year and designated a Bronze Medalist at the national level. For 12 years he collaborated on research funded by NASA-Goddard to investigate space radiation effects; this involved use of accelerator facilities at Brookhaven and Los Alamos National Laboratories. Since retiring, he and wife Judy have traveled to all seven continents and all 50 U.S. states.
Stephen Mahan (Ph.D., Fall 2000) is now working as a deep submicron integrated circuit designer at ASIC International (Ai), an Oak Ridge-based application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design house. They are currently designing integrated circuits with 10 to 20 million transistors held in packages with more than 1300 pins.
Saskia Mioduszewski (Ph.D., Fall 1999) has joined the PHENIX experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory as a post-doc.
All physics alumni are invited to notify Catherine Longmire of their whereabouts for inclusion in the newsletter.
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