Five Faculty Receive NSF Career Awards

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University Park, Pa.-- Five Penn State faculty members have been honored with 1996 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grants.

The recipients are:

--Thomas E. Boothby, assistant professor of architectural engineering for "Assessment, Maintenance, Repair and Rehabilitation of Historic Structures;"

--David A. Edwards, associate professor of chemical engineering, for "Osmotically-Driven Intracellular Transport;"

--David J. Miller, assistant professor of electrical engineering, for Supervised Learning by Statistical Physics;"

--Suzanne Mohney, assistant professor of metals science, for "Native Oxides on the III-V Nitrides and Chemical Cleaning of the Semiconductor Surfaces;" and --Maria Womack, assistant professor of physics, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, for "Carbon Monoxide in Comets."

NSF established the awards to help scientists and engineers develop simultaneously their contributions to research and education early in their careers. CAREER funds are awarded to junior-level faculty at colleges and universities and these four to five year awards range from $200,000 to $500,000.

NSF awarded 346 CAREER awards nationwide in 1996 totaling $40 million in new grants. The awardees were selected from 1,865 applicants.

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