President Clough to give State of the Institute Address next week
On Thursday, October 23 at 11 a.m., President Clough will give the State of the Institute address from the Student Center Ballroom. The address will be videotaped by the Office of Information and Technology for later broadcasting. This address is presented by Omicron Delta Kappa. All students are encouraged to attend.
Nobel Prize-winning physicist to deliver a speech to the Tech community
On Tuesday, October 21, Heinrich Rohrer will deliver a speech in the Tennenbaum Auditorium at 11:00a.m. Rohrer, who is an IBM researcher, will discuss the current state of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
The guest lecture, "Nanotechnology--Nature's Way," is hosted by Dr. Uzi Landman, Regents' professor and Callaway Chair in physics.
"This is the era of miniaturization," said Landman. "We are bombarded by huge amounts of information that need to be stored and processed so we can read and use it easily. Thus, we want to make everything as small as possible."
Rohrer and colleague Dr. Gerd Binning won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1986 for inventing the scanning-tunneling microscope, a device that allows materials to be probed on the atomic scale. The instrument doubles as a camera and a fabrication tool.
Health Physics Research Awards Available to Faculty Members
College and university faculty members with research interests in health physics-related technical areas may apply for the U.S. Department of Energy's 1998 Health Physics Faculty Research Program.
Sponsored by DOE's Office of Environment, Safety and Health, Office of Worker Protection Programs and Hazards Management, the program is open to all full-time faculty appointments at accredited colleges and universities in the United States.
The HPFRA program recognizes and supports the efforts of outstanding faculty members whose creative research in areas related to radiation protection is supportive of the DOE mission and has contributed to health physics education.
The application deadline for the 1997 HPFRA Program is Feb. 27, 1997. For more information, telephone 423-576-1078, or e-mail gossleel@orau.gov.
