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RESEARCH/RESEARCHERS

504 MRS BULLETIN • VOLUME 31 • JULY 2006

Clyde L. Briant, dean of engineering
and the Otis E. Randall University
Professor at Brown University, has been
appointed vice president for research,
effective July 1. Briant succeeds Andries
van Dam, the inaugural vice president
for research.

J.M. Carpenter of the Intense Pulsed
Neutron Source Division of Argonne
National Laboratory has been named the
recipient of the Neutron Scattering
Society of America’s 2006 Clifford G.
Shull Prize for “seminal contributions to
the development of neutron sources and
instrumentation that have had worldwide
impact on neutron scattering across a
broad range of scientific disciplines, cul-
minating in the optimized design of the
Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge.”

Andrea Hill of NanoSonics Inc. has
been named recipient of the Outstanding
Young Engineering Alumnus Award for
2005–2006 by Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University.

Yakov Kutsovsky has been named a
vice president of Cabot Corporation.

Richard M. Laine has been appointed
director of the University of Michigan
Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Center. 

Doug Ray has been named associate
laboratory director for the Fundamental
Science Directorate at Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory. Ray replaces Steve
Colson, who is retiring.

Arthur H. Rosenfeld, a commissioner
at the California Energy Commission,
where he serves as chair of the Research
and Development Committee and as the
second member of the Energy Efficiency
Committee, has been named the recipient
of the 2005 Enrico Fermi Award, the U.S.
government’s oldest award for scientific
achievement. This presidential award
carries an honorarium of $375,000 and a
gold medal. The Department of Energy
administers the Fermi Award on behalf
of the White House. 

Giacinto Scoles (Princeton University
and the International School for Ad-
vanced Studies) and J. Peter Toennies
(University of California, Berkeley; the
Max Planck Institut; and the University
of Göttingen) have been awarded the
2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in
Physics for the development of new tech-
niques for studying molecules, including
unstable species that could not be exam-
ined otherwise, by embedding them in
extremely small and ultracold droplets of
helium. Their work also led to a better
understanding of the extraordinary prop-
erties of superfluid helium, such as its
ability to flow without friction.

John Tranquada, head of the Neutron
Scattering Group at the Department of
Energy’s Brookhaven National Labora-
tory, has been named the recipient of the
2006 Sustained Research Prize estab-
lished by the Neutron Scattering Society
of America.

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in July for further details!

The Material Research Society’s

annual election of officers and

directors will be

ONLINE
this year to provide members

with an easier, more convenient

way to vote!

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