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Staters Long-Qing Chen, associate professor and associate head for graduate studies in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, gave an invited presentation at the International Workshop on Thermodynamic and Structural Properties of Materials, in Palais des Papes Avignon, France. It was titled "Microstructure Evolution in Systems with Internal and External Stresses." Sridhar Komarneni, professor of clay mineralogy in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences and Materials Research Institute, recently gave several invited lectures in India. He talked about "Nanocomposite Route to Ceramics" at Indian Institute of Technology and on "Ceramic Powders by Microwave-Assisted Hydrothermal Process" at Carborundum Universal Ltd., both in Chennai; and on "Nanocomposites" at the Department of Physics at Osmania University and on "Synthetic Clays for Remediation of Contaminated Soils" at A.N.G.R. Agricultural University, both in Hyderabad. Football Coach Joe Paterno has been selected as the 2002 recipient of the American Football Coaches Association's Amos Alonzo Stagg Award. The award honors those "whose services have been outstanding in the advancement of the best interests of football." In his 36th season as head coach and his 52nd year as a member of the Penn State coaching staff, Paterno is the nation's leading active Division I head coach in terms of wins. Paul S. Weiss, professor of chemistry, presented a series of invited talks during a recent trip to Japan. In Kyoto, his talks included "Controlling and Measuring Local Composition and Properties in Lipid Bilayer Membranes" at the fourth International Conference on Biological Physics and "Exploring and Controlling the Atomic-Scale World" at the Kyocera corporate headquarters. In Yokohama, his presentations included "Controlling and Measuring Local Composition and Properties in Lipid Bilayer Membranes" at the Tokyo Institute of Technology Laboratory of Biodynamics and "Measuring and Controlling Molecular-Scale Properties for Molecular Electronics" at the Tokyo Institute of Technology Department of Biomolecular Engineering. Alexander Wolszczan, Evan Pugh professor of astronomy and astrophysics, has been honored with the Marian Smoluchowski Medal -- the highest prize awarded by the Polish Physical Society. Wolszczan became the first person to discover planets outside our solar system in 1992, when he used the 1,000-foot Arecibo radiotelescope to detect three planets orbiting a rapidly spinning neutron star. Dinesh Agrawal, professor of materials and director of the Microwave Processing and Engineering Center in the Materials Research Institute, gave invited presentations on "Microwave Processing of Ceramics, Composites and Metallic Materials" at the Federal University of Sao Carlo and the University Estadual Paulista, Araraquara, both in Brazil. He also gave invited presentations on "Extraordinary Successes with Microwave Fields for Synthesis and Sintering of Ceramics, Metals and Composites" at a symposium organized by the Institute of Solvothermal Technology, Takamatsu, Japan, and Kokushikan University, Tokyo. In addition, he gave a presentation on "Recent Developments in Microwave Processing of Ceramics, Composites and Metallic Materials" at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejon, South Korea. James B. Anderson, Evan Pugh professor of chemistry, presented a series of lectures at the Third Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods of the International Association for Mathematics and Computer Science in Simulation in Salzburg, Austria. His lectures were titled: "The Simulation of Detonations," "Monte Carlo Methods in Electronic Structure for Large Systems," "Quantum Monte Carlo: Direct Calculation of Corrections to Trial Wave Functions and Their Energies" and "Monte Carlo Treatment of UV Light Imprisonment in Fluorescent Lamps." Charles Garoian, professor of art education and director of the School of Visual Arts, and Yvonne Gaudelius, associate professor of art education and women's studies, have been awarded the National Continuing Education Association 2001 Award of Excellence in Non-Credit Program Development for their symposium, "Performative Sites: Intersecting Art, Technology and the Body." The symposium, which included nationally and internationally renowned and emerging performance artists, theorists, educators and scholars, explored the theoretical, experiential and pedagogical implications of performance art and addressed technological culture and its impact on the human body and identity through a variety of programs. Iam-Choon Khoo, distinguished professor of electrical engineering, presented an invited paper titled "Optical polarization switching, limiting, image processing and communication channel nonlinear optics with liquid crystals" at the ninth International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, in Sorrento, Italy. Together with Gaetano Assanto of the University of Rome and Cesare Umeton of the University of Calabria, he also presented another invited paper on "Coherent and Incoherent Optical Spatial Solutions." John H. Pazur, professor emeritus of biochemistry, presented a lecture concerning the preparation and function of antibodies for the hormone that regulates the synthesis of red blood cells at the International Symposium on Glycobiology in The Hague, The Netherlands. John W. Tippeconnic III, professor of education in the Department of Education Policy Studies and director of the American Indian Leadership Program, has been named to the board of directors of the American Association of Higher Education. The Department of Transportation Services Event Parking staff recently received recognition for outstanding achievement at the First Annual Pennsylvania Parking Association Awards Program held in Harrisburg. In the area of event parking, Frank Pope, event parking coordinator, accepted the Award of Excellence for Innovation in Parking Management. This award was given for the management strategy used to park the Bill Gaither Tour sell-out event. The department also received an Award of Merit for Innovation in Parking Improvement for the expansion of the HUB Deck that occurred last summer. Doug Holmes, Transportation Services Facilities coordinator, accepted the award for his work with the parking consultants of Tim Haahs and Associates, High Concrete, Reynolds Construction, and the Office of Physical Plant. Holmes also was selected as president of the Pennsylvania Parking Association. |