DEPARTMENT NEWS
PICTURED AT RIGHT: Senior Scientist Kumar
Sridharan (center) talks with Department of Energy Director of Nuclear
Energy Bill Magwood (right) and Todd Allen, who will join the EP faculty
in fall, about plasma-source ion implantation research here during Magwood’s
Feb. 13 and 14 visit and tour.
Program Assistant Supervisor
Rose
Birzer recently received a UW-Madison
Classified Staff Award. Her nomination commended her excellent oversight
of the department’s budget and financial procedures and her training
and counseling of other classified staff in the department and its research
centers. She often is the first person her colleagues turn to when there
is a question of how to do something and how to pay for it, citing her
as a natural leader who handles tasks with grace and professionalism.
Assistant Professor Rob
Carpick will receive the 2003 Ferdinand
Beer and Russell Johnston Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award from
the American Society for Engineering Education. Established in 1992,
the award honors up to three people annually who have shown a strong
commitment to mechanics education. Winners, who must have no more than
five years of academic experience past their first regular academic
appointment, are selected based on their exceptional contributions to
mechanics education.
EP IN THE NEWS
This spring, Congress discussed assessing and redefining
America’s goals in space. In a Feb. 10 story in the Christian
Science Monitor, Adjunct Professor Harrison
Schmitt, an Apollo 17 astronaut, says that discussion should
lead toward the moon. “The moon is our next logical step,”
he says, noting that it is close and it has resources such as hydrogen,
oxygen and a form of helium that interests fusion-energy researchers.
Stories in the Dec. 21 New York Times and
Dec. 22 Los Angeles Daily News quote Professor Ray
Fonck about a National Research Council panel’s recommendation
that the United States rejoin the International Thermonuclear Experimental
Reactor, a $5 billion international nuclear fusion project. “We
have confidence it will work,” says Fonck, the panel’s co-chair,
about nuclear fusion.
