Department News 2002

December 2002

• Prof. Rohrer is elected a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society
• Prof Paxton is elected a Distinguished Member and Fellow of the Iron and Steel Society
  

November 2002

• Prof. Towe is elected an IEEE fellow
• Prof. Towe is elected a Fellow of the American Optical Society
  

July 2002

• Prof. Barmak is promoted to Professor.
• Prof. De Graef is promoted to Professor and granted indefinite tenure.
• Prof. Porter is promoted to Associate Professor
• Prof Laughlin and Lambeth are issued European Patent No. 0772188 entitled "Magnetic Recording Medium with a MgO Sputter deposited Seed Layer"
  

May 2002

• Prof. Piehler receives a 35 years of service award at graduation
• Prof. Salvador receives the Philbrook prize
• Profs Laughlin, Fruehan and Wynblatt receive 20 year service awards at graduation
  

April 2002

• Prof. Rohrer reception to honour the W. W. Mullins Professorship.
• Prof. Seetharaman receives a Homboldt research award
  

January 2002

• Professor De Graef began a six month sabbatical in Belgium
• Prof. Fruehan was named as the second recipient of the Brimacombe Prize. This prize is for outstanding contributions in Materials Processing Research, is awarded by the Brimacombe Foundation and is a cash award of $25,000 CD.