Three physics graduate students were named TAML fellows for 2002-2003. TAML (the Tennessee Advanced Materials Laboratory) was first announced in December 2000 as a new center of excellence in the "Tennessee 21st Century Research Initiative." Among TAML's ambitions is the training of a new generation of students ready to undertake all facets of materials science, from synthesis to characterization to modeling and design. To meet that goal, TAML offers fellowships to distinguished graduate students in any area of materials research at UT. Among the seven 2002-2003 TAML Fellows are physics graduate students Robert Moore, John Pierce, and Pengcheng Li. Rob Moore completed a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at Tennessee Tech in 1994 and a master's in physics at the University of Washington in 2002. His research interests include the synthesis of self-assembled nanostructures, using scanning tunneling microscopy to understand their properties. John Pierce finished his bachelor's at Albion College in 1997 and is currently working on the measurement of transport properties of Fe films, nanowires, and quantum dots on NaCl. John is also a former winner of the UT Citation for Academic Achievement and Professional Promise and the physics department's Fowler Marion Graduate Award. Pengcheng Li is a graduate of the University of Science and Technology of China (B.S., 2000; M.S., 2002) and has published 10 articles in the past two years. TAML fellows are awarded a $25,000 beginning annual stipend with merit-based stipend increases. They may conduct Ph.D thesis work in any department on campus and in collaboration with scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory when appropriate. The core UT departments are chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, and physics and astronomy. More information about TAML and the fellowship program can be found at: http://www.phys.utk.edu/taml/. Cross Sections, Fall/Winter 2002 Issue, Contents Page UT Physics News & Notes Page UT Physics Home Page This page was last updated on December 5, 2002. Please send comments to cal@utk.edu.