 Faculty News Dr. Witek Nazarewicz is quoted in the September 2002 issue of Physics Today in an article entitled, "Evidence Found for a New Type of Radioactivity: Two-Proton Emission." The article addresses how studies of the two protons emitted by iron-45 can shed light on how the protons are paired with the nucleus. Dr. Nazarewicz was also co-director of the First RIA (Rare Isotope Accelerator) Summer School on Exotic Beam Physics, held August 12-17 at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The program combined lectures, hands-on demonstrations, and student presentations designed to introduce young researchers to the future possibilities of low-energy nuclear physics. The summer school was jointly organized by the 88-Inch Cycoltron, ATLAS, HRIBF, and NSCL and will rotate annually among these institutions.
Dr. Robert Compton received a 2002 Senior Faculty Research Award from the College of Arts and Sciences. As his citation reads, "his work is consistently described as ground breaking and pioneering in several important areas of basic research pertaining to molecules." Dr. Compton is also a new member of the Berea College Board of Trustees. He began his term in October and will serve for six years. Dr. Compton is a 1960 graduate of Berea with a bachelor's degree in physics.
Dr. Carlos O. Reinhold, an adjunct member of the physics department, was named one of 192 new Fellows of the American Physical Society for 2002. Only one-half of one percent of the total APS membership is selected for fellowship each year. Dr. Reihnold is with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and was elected “for pioneering contributions to the understanding of classical-quantum correspondence in time-dependent interactions of atoms with ions, solids and electromagnetic pulses.”
Student NewsUndergraduates Jason Smith and Richard Hatcher have each been awarded $1,000 from the Ira Vincent and Sophronia Ragsdale Memorial Scholarship Fund. This endowment provides financial assistance for students in physics, math, or engineering who have maintained a 3.0 or better grade point average.
Graduate student John Pierce has attracted attention with his paper, "Ferromagnetism in cobalt-iron alloy nanowire arrays on W(110), published in the September 2, 2002 issue of Applied Physics Letters. The paper was selected for the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology and inspired an article for the Internet site, Nanotech Web.
Sophomore Olga Ovchinnikov is one of only 18 students selected to give presentations at the Society of Physics Students Session on Undergraduate Research. The session is part of the American Association of Physics Teachers National Meeting, scheduled for January 11-15, 2003, in Austin, Texas. Olga plans to present the findings of her work this summer, when she spent 10 weeks at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Advanced Light Source. Her involvement was made possible through the Energy Research Undergraduate Laboratory Fellowship program, which places promising undergraduate students in a research environment
Alumni NewsKorey Sorge (Ph.D., 2002) joined the University of Nebraska as a post-doc in August. He is working on a project involving spin logic systems and associated dynamics.
Zhiyu (Jerry) Hu (Ph.D., 2000) is a staff member in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Life Sciences Division and an assistant research professor in the physics department. He has returned to East Tennessee after working for Protiveris in Rockville, Maryland.
Staff NewsPhysics is pleased to welcome our new principal secretary,Gay Henegar, who joined the department in August. 
In MemoriamMr. Ernest (Ernie) Colston Evans passed away May 20. He was 81 years old. Mr. Evans was a UT graduate, earning a B.S. in engineering in 1953 and a master’s in nuclear physics in 1957. He was a civilian employee developing instruments for the Army Signal Corps during World War II. He left in 1942 to volunteer for the Army Air Corps, later transferring to the Corps of Engineers at Oak Ridge. After the war he was employed as a development engineer by Union Carbide and served as a section head, department head, and as director of the Separation Systems Division (SSD). He held 11 patents and patent disclosures. Mr. Evans is survived by his wife, Mrs. Marie Odile (Ricci) Evans, three children and three grandchildren.
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