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Honors and Awards 1997-98
Robert Sekerka has been named fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.
Robert Sekerka is also the winner of the 1998 Bruce Chalmers Award of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society.
Thomas Ferguson is the 1998 recipient of the William H. and Frances S. Ryan Teaching award. This is the university's highest teaching award and is a symbol of excellence in undergraduate teaching. Tom is the fifth member of our department to win the Ryan award in its short history.
Robert Griffiths was named University Professor.
Randy Feenstra was named fellow of the American Physical Society.
Hugh Young was this year's winner of the Richard Moore Award for continued outstanding undergraduate teaching in the college.
Terri Jones of our staff was the 1998 recipient of the Mellon College of Science "Rookie Award," which is recognition of outstanding work done by a staff member who has been with the college for less than three years.
Vidhya Ramachandran was recognized for the best student paper at the 1997 Electronics Materials Conference at Fort Collins, Colo. Vidhya is a graduate student; her paper was titled "Preparation of Atomically Flat Surfaces on 6H-SiC(0001) Using Hydrogen Etching."
Shubho Banerjee was the winner of the Mellon College of Science Graduate Student Teaching Award.
Cindi Dennis, a junior in our department, has won an Intel Scholarship. Cindi spent the summer at Intel in California.
Four Carnegie Mellon undergraduates won prestigious Barry Goldwater scholarships. Three of them are Physics students: Cindi Dennis, Adrian Pope and Merle Romesberg.
Darrell Velegol, a Ph.D. student jointly supervised by Steve Garoff in Physics and John Anderson in Chemical Engineering, won the LaMer Award of the American Chemical Society in recognition of his outstanding Ph.D. thesis entitled "Determining the Forces Between Colloidal Particles Using Differential Electrophoresis."
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