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L E T T E R F R O M T H E

D E P A R T M E N T H E A D

Dear friends,

I am very pleased to have this opportunity again to communicate

with you about the developments in MIT’s Department of Materials

Science and Engineering (DMSE) during the past year.

While Structure has previously been a fall publication, this year we

decided to delay production until some of our initiatives had moved

beyond the proposal stage so that we could provide you with

details of our plans, rather than our intentions.

Since the last issue of Structure, five young faculty members, all our

top candidates, have joined the Department. Information about

their backgrounds and areas of expertise can be found in the fol-

lowing pages. With the addition of these new colleagues, nearly

one third of the current DMSE faculty members have joined the

department within the past four years. This rejuvenation has result-

ed in the establishment of major research programs in several new

and emerging areas, including biomaterials and nanotechnology,

the creation of new experimental facilities for research and the

recruitment of a large number of graduate students.

The Fall of 2002 saw the arrival of the largest number of new grad-

uate students in recent decades. With some 76 new graduate stu-

dents, the total graduate student population during this academic

year stands at 215. A new Nanomechanical Technology Laboratory,

housing state-of-the-art experimental tools for mechanically prob-

ing engineering and biological materials and surfaces was created

along the infinite corridor in Building 8. This highly visible facility

was officially opened on March 18, 2002 during the DMSE Visiting

Committee meeting. Additional information about this laboratory

and about the opening ceremony is given later in this issue.

Our campaign to fund new faculty chairs was successful. A senior

professorship and a junior faculty career development professor-

ship, both named in honor of Professor Merton C. Flemings, were

Lab Renovations: 04

New Faculty: 07

Honors: 08

Transitions: 09

Subra Suresh, Head of the

Department of Materials Science

and Engineering and

Ford Professor of Engineering.

structure

established in November. These professorships were made possible

by significant contributions from Toyota Corporation and the

Singapore-MIT Alliance as well as private donations from a large

number of friends and alumni of the department.

DMSE faculty members and students continue to receive prestigious

awards and other internal and external recognition. DMSE faculty

also continue to lead major activities and programs within the

Institute and occupy prominent leadership positions in the activities

of many professional societies and technical organizations. The

Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology, a major new research activity

funded by the US Army, has programs in which seven DMSE facul-

ty members have active participation. The Center for Materials

Science and Engineering with significant DMSE involvement has

successfully renewed its funding from the National Science

Foundation for another six years. Overall funding for research con-

ducted by DMSE faculty and students has increased by approxi-

mately seventy-five percent compared to three years ago.

During the past year and a half, a major effort has been underway

to establish a new undergraduate curriculum in materials science

and engineering. A significant feature of this new curriculum is the

seamless integration of lectures and laboratory modules and the

closer coupling of fundamental topics with relevant practical appli-

cations. The new curriculum has received formal approval at the

Institute level and will be introduced to the incoming sophomore

class during Fall 2003. As part of this curriculum revision effort, a

new Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory is also scheduled to be

inaugurated at the beginning of the fall semester. This new labora-

tory will be located along the Infinite Corridor, across from the

Nanomechanical Technology Laboratory.

Ongoing projects include our planned renovation in conjunction

with the space exchange with the Department of Physics which

entails relocation of DMSE Headquarters and the construction of a

new Departmental conference room (the Chipman Room) and con-

tinued expansion of the Undergraduate Lab.

We were saddened by the death of our dear friend and colleague,

Professor August F. Witt, who lost his battle with cancer last

October. Through his Freshmen Chemistry subject, 3.091, Gus

inspired and educated nearly half of MIT undergraduates over three

decades. Gus retired last July and saw his last student defend her

thesis in September. A memorial service to celebrate Gus’s life and

accomplishments will be held on May 12, 2003, at 3:30 in the MIT

Chapel. A fund to provide emergency financial assistance to under-

graduates has been established in Gus’s name.

Other retirements this year included Prof. Fred McGarry and Patrick

Kearney. An appreciation of Prof. McGarry can be found later in

these pages. Pat Kearney joined the Department in 1960 and

worked first as a Research Technician for Prof. W. David Kingery

and Prof. Robert Coble in the ceramics group. After that, he worked

as a Technical Instructor in 3.081 for approximately 15 years.

Although he retired in September 2002, he has continued to work

part-time with students in 3.081 and in the Chiang Lab. We thank

him for his many years of dedicated service.

The field of materials science has been receiving much public atten-

tion; members of our field have been consulted in connection with

the fall of the World Trade Center, the break-up of the Columbia

space shuttle, technological advances in communications devices

and power supplies, and even on the most valued invention (the

toothbrush, according to a survey from the Lemelson-MIT

Foundation). Many of Technology Review’s 100 young scientists

to watch come from the field of materials science, including our

own Angela Belcher. We are proud to play this role in technology

today and to continue to educate tomorrow’s leaders. An archive of

articles and interviews can be found on our website:

http://dmse.mit.edu/news/spotlight_archive.html.

I look forward to the pleasure of seeing many of you this year. If our

paths cross at commencement, an alumni reunion, a professional

society meeting, or the DMSE reception at the December Materials

Research Society Meeting in Boston, please seek me out and, as

always, feel free to call or e-mail me with your suggestions,

thoughts, updates, and feedback.

With warmest wishes,

Subra Suresh

77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 8-309

Cambridge MA 02139-4307

617.253.3320

email: ssuresh@mit.edu

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Academic InitiativesU N D E R G R A D U A T E

C U R R I C U L U M

In Fall 2003, DMSE will significantly revise its curriculum by intro-

ducing all new core subjects.

The curriculum revision will provide a fresh, exciting experience for

our undergraduates, with a new set of integrated core subjects and

labs. The new subjects will cover both theory (fundamentals) and

practice (how these fundamentals are related to the real world), and

all the lectures in the new core will include examples and applica-

tions. For instance, in the first semester students will discover why

viruses and proteins have such complex structures, why silicon is

such a good material for making electronic devices, and why rub-

ber is stretchy, to name just a few. Coordinated laboratory work

during the semester will allow students to test the concepts that

they have learned.

The Department’s goal is to present core material in a new, inte-

grated format. The sophomore and junior core will consist of two or

three subjects running concurrently throughout the semester.

Subject material will be strongly coordinated, so that students can

better appreciate the interconnections between topics and

approach the material from different perspectives. Central to the

plan is an integrated Math, Physical Models, and Computation sub-

ject that will provide a rigorous basis for the topics under study.

There will be a strong emphasis on real-life examples, all the way

from how the properties of materials are determined (for instance,

what makes glass transparent and metals opaque?) to how materi-

als are used (how do you build an artificial human organ or a laser,

for instance).

D I S T I N G U I S H E D L E C T U R E R

S E R I E S

DMSE has continued this well-received series. In November, Prof.

Colin Humphreys gave a lecture entitled “The Magic Of Materials:

From Metals with a Memory to Brilliant New Lasers.” Room 6-120

was filled to overflowing. Professor Humphreys is Goldsmiths

Professor of Materials Science at Cambridge University as well as

Head of The Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride, Director of the

Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre, and President of the UK

Institute of Materials.

M . E N G . C U R R I C U L U M

Beginning Academic Year 2003–2004, there will be significant

changes in the DMSE M.Eng. program. The Master of Engineering

(M.Eng.) degree is a 12-month program of study which instructs

students both in the fundamentals of materials science and in their

application to real engineering problems and systems.

Reflecting the myriad uses of materials science and engineering in

modern industry, DMSE’s M.Eng. program provides instruction in all

areas of the field. Students will work with colleagues and faculty

supervisors to design a program of study that suits their interests

and goals. Sample programs are:

• Materials for Micro and Nano-Systems

• Computational Materials Science and Engineering

• Biomaterials and Materials for Biotechnology

Students will begin the program in September and finish in August.

This schedule change will better accommodate needs of students

and industry, and allows better integration of the program with the

Department’s other activities.

Prof. Humphreys accepting a token of thanks from Prof.

Suresh. The Department frequently presents visitors with items

made by artists in the MIT Glass Lab.

N A N O L A B O P E N I N G

In March of 2002, DMSE opened a new NanoMechanical

Technology Laboratory, equipped with state-of-the-art machines

for the study of the mechanical properties of surfaces and devices

at the atomic and molecular scale. This lab is the most prominent

and visible laboratory along MIT’s Infinite Corridor and its glass

walls and plasma screen displays of educational and research infor-

mation inform passersby of its activities.

The laboratory has “unique capabilities for studying the properties

of the tiny world,” said Subra Suresh, head of the Department. For

example, it is home to the Institute’s first nanoindenters, machines

that probe and measure the properties of surfaces of engineering

and biological materials. At least a dozen faculty from more than

five departments will be actively involved in the “NanoLab.”

The NanoLab is expected to play an important role in the activities

of the newly announced Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies,

directed by Prof. Ned Thomas. In addition to research, the lab also

will be key to a number of educational activities; lab components

will be added to a variety of DMSE subjects and preliminary plans

are under way to link the NanoLab to the WebLab, the online

microelectronics lab developed by Prof. Jesus del Alamo.

The NanoMechanical Technology Laboratory was made possible by

a combined donation of $500,000 from Harold Hindman (S.B.

1939 in chemistry; S.M. in mechanical engineering) and George

Burr (S.B. 1941 in physics), co-founders of Instron Corporation; a

pledge of $500,000 in cash and equipment from Instron

Corporation itself; and an equipment grant of $500,000 from the

Department of Defense to purchase the nanoindenter. Additional

funding came from the Institute and the Lord Foundation of

Massachusetts Inc.

The DMSE Visiting Committee was present at the Opening

Ceremony.

President Vest, Harold Hindman, and Prof. Suresh during the

“NanoLab” dedication.

Visiting Committee. with Prof. Suresh

MIT faculty at the NanoLab Opening.

Space Initiatives

U N D E R G R A D U A T E L A B

DMSE expects to open a new

Undergraduate Teaching

Laboratory on Sept. 2, 2003.

The Lab opening coincides with

the introduction of the new

curriculum in Materials Science

and Engineering. The Lab will

be located on the Infinite

Corridor, opposite the

NanoLab, and will occupy about 2000 square feet. It will contain a

range of equipment including facilities for biomaterials research,

chemical synthesis, and processing of materials; equipment for the

characterization of electronic materials; an optical bench; and a

scanning electron microscope. It will be used by undergraduates at

all levels, from sophomore labs to senior thesis and UROPs.

B I O M O L E C U L A R M A T E R I A L S

L A B

Prof. Angela Belcher’s group

includes students from many

backgrounds (chemistry, mate-

rials science, molecular biology,

and engineering) and her lab

houses equipment necessary to

perform experiments in molec-

ular biology and materials syn-

thesis. This combination of personnel and equipment allows a

unique approach to solving problems in the emerging field of nan-

otechnology. Belcher’s primary interest is interfaces, including the

interfaces of scientific disciplines as well as the interfaces of materi-

als. Her group uses nature as a guide to make novel electronic and

magnetic materials and to pattern materials on nano length scales.

Natural materials are both strong and tough and display exception-

al nanostructural regularity. By understanding how nature makes

these materials, the group is designing new materials with these

desired features. They pioneered a novel, non-covalent self-organi-

zational approach that utilizes evolutionarily selected and engi-

neered peptides to specifically recognize and bind electronic and

magnetic building blocks. They’ve been successful in using these

evolutionarily selected peptides to control physical properties of

nanocrystals and subsequently use molecular recognition and self-

assembly to design biological hybrid multi-dimensional materials.

B I O M A T E R I A L S A N D

I M M U N E S Y S T E M

B I O - E N G I N E E R I N G L A B

Prof. Darrell Irvine joined DMSE and Biological Engineering in Jan.

2002. His work in the design of biomaterials as therapeutic devices

or model systems for the study of the immune system is well under

way in a new laboratory, 8-410, renovated in spring of 2002: the

renovated space includes a wet chemistry lab, tissue culture facility,

and fluorescence microscopy room. The integration of these facili-

ties allows the complete chain of research—synthesis of new mate-

rials and fabrication of devices, culture of these devices with lym-

phocytes and other cells, and characterization of the resulting sys-

tems all in a single space. In addition, the physical location of the

lab, situated roughly between shared materials characterization

facilities in the Center for Materials Science and Engineering and

biochemical characterization facilities centered in the Biotechnology

Process Engineering Center and the Center for Biomedical

Engineering, provides convenient access to the broad range of

resources needed for this work.

M I C R O S T R U C T U R E D E S I G N

L A B

In the newly renovated

8-006, students directed

by Prof. Chris Schuh are

working to engineer the

next generation of struc-

tural materials. The facili-

ty is equipped with

advanced processing

capabilities to “engineer” interfaces in materials, and to produce

nanocrystalline metals and alloys, as well as “nanocomposites.”

Additionally, computational capabilities are used for modeling, to

explain the physics underlying these new materials.

M E C H A N I C A L L Y A C T I V E

M A T E R I A L S Y S T E M S L A B

Dr. Van Vliet’s group studies transformations in material structure

and function by imposing and modeling mechanical deformation at

the atomic and molecular scales. This approach encompasses a wide

range of material systems and mechanically coupled phenomena,

including defect nucleation in ionic crystals, superelasticity in metal-

lic alloys, and environmental degradation of nanoscale composites,

as well as molecular interactions such as conformational ligand-

receptor binding on cell surfaces. The living cell is an interesting

example of a material system which processes mechanical stimuli

via chemical and structural modifications: cell function depends

directly on the local mechanical environment. They explore this

mechanotransduction by creating real-time images of individual, liv-

ing cell surfaces and cell substrates via nanoNewton-scale mechan-

ical contact forces. This sub-nanometer investigation of the cell and

its local environment contains topographical, chemical, and kinetic

data that relate the cell’s integration of mechanical cues. Renovation

work is under way for a lab on the second floor of Building 8.

0504

Funding Initiatives

F E L L O W S H I P S

The Tenaris Group of Companies, with major engineering opera-

tions in Europe and South America, now sponsors up to two stu-

dents per year in the DMSE M.Eng. degree program. The student

applicants are chosen by Tenaris from their units in Italy, Argentina,

and Mexico, and must meet all the usual admissions criteria for the

program. Tenaris provides full tuition, living expenses, insurance

costs, etc. for the entire duration of the student’s participation in

M.Eng. The company has also offered to provide projects for stu-

dents to work on at their industrial sites (if acceptable to our facul-

ty and appropriate to the student’s academic program) with col-

leagues at the industrial sites available to co-supervise such projects

in collaboration with DMSE faculty.

G I F T S

DMSE has received a gift to establish an annual prize for under-

graduate students as part of the newly-endowed Horace A. Lubin

Fund. This gift has been made by Michael D. Lubin in honor of his

father. The DMSE Undergraduate Committee will determine selec-

tion criteria and plans for establishing and awarding this prize.

F L E M I N G S C H A I R S

Professor Subra Suresh announced that fundraising efforts over the

past two years have yielded successful results. With a major contri-

bution from Toyota Corporation, additional funding from MIT

through the Singapore-MIT Alliance, and contributions from friends

and alumni of the Department, DMSE will be establishing two new

chairs: The Merton C. Flemings-SMA

Professorship and The Merton C.

Flemings Career Development Chair.

These professorships recognize Professor

Flemings’ significant contributions to

DMSE, MIT, and the international materi-

als community.

Flemings has been connected to DMSE for

over 50 years; he is an alumnus of the

Department (S.B. 1951, S.M. 1952, Sc.D.

1954, all in Metallurgy). He joined MIT’s

faculty in 1954. He established and was

the first director of the Materials Processing Center at MIT in 1979,

served as Head of the Department of Materials Science and

Engineering from 1982 to 1995, and was Co-Director at M.I.T. of

the Singapore-M.I.T. Alliance. He is currently Director of the MIT-

Lemelson Program.

Flemings is widely recognized for major contributions to the scien-

tific understanding of solidification, a process important to the qual-

ity of many materials, from steel to semiconductors. The distin-

guishing feature of his career is his ability to translate these scientif-

ic advances into significant improvements of commercial metal pro-

cessing techniques, and to invent new and better processes.

The Merton C. Flemings-SMA Professorship will be administered

through the School of Engineering and will be held by a senior

member of the DMSE faculty. Prof. Eugene A. Fitzgerald will be the

first Merton C. Flemings-SMA Professor. Fitzgerald researches the

current limitations of electronic materials, especially those created

by imperfections in materials such as point, line, and planar defects.

The Merton C. Flemings Career Development Chair will be directly

administered by DMSE and, while efforts will be made to continue

to add to its endowment, funding is sufficient to launch it at this

time. Caroline A. Ross will be the first Merton C. Flemings Career

Development Associate Professor of Materials Science and

Engineering. Ross performs research in the magnetic properties of

thin films and small structures, particularly for data storage

applications.

I S N

Last spring, MIT learned that the Army selected its proposal for an

Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN). The Army funded this

project for five years for $50 million to which industry will contribute

an additional $40 million in funds and equipment. DMSE’s Prof.

Edwin L. Thomas directs the new Institute which will create light-

weight molecular materials to equip foot soldiers of the future with

uniforms and gear that can heal them, shield them, and protect

them against chemical and biological warfare. The ISN is staffed by

close to 150 people, including 35 MIT professors from 7 depart-

ments in the schools of engineering, science, and architecture and

planning. In addition to MIT personnel, the ISN also includes spe-

cialists from the Army; E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.,

Wilmington, Del.; Raytheon Co., Lexington, Mass.; and physicians

from Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s

Hospital. The ISN focuses on six key soldier capabilities: threat

detection, threat neutralization (such as bullet-proof clothing), con-

cealment, enhanced human performance, real-time automated

medical treatment, and reduced logistical footprint (i.e., lightening

the considerable weight load of the fully equipped soldier). One ISN

goal is to reduce the weight of a soldier’s equipment from today’s

125-145 pounds to 45 pounds.

Prof. Merton C. Flemings

donor list

Lynore Abbott 1991Thomas Abell G 1994Harold Ackler G 1997Richard Adams, Jr. G 1987Anoop Agrawal G 1986Balkishan Agrawal G 1980Michael Ahrens 1990Sergio Ajuria G 1992Adrian Albrethsen G 1963Benjamin Allen G 1957Lisa Allen G 1982Paul Allen 1937Samuel M. Allen G 1975Steven Allen G 1959Ronald Allred G 1983Pedro Almeida 1988Bernard Alperin 1952Louis Alpert G 1934James Alward G 1977Daniel Anderson 1970Elizabeth Anderson 1984Lindsay Anderson G 1993Tryggve Angel 1951Theodore Ansbacher 1960Frank Ansuini 1963William Arbiter 1950Kenneth Arndt G 1996Scot Arnold G 1989Arthur Aronson 1958Crystal Arthur 2002Robert Ashbrook, Jr. 1983Patrick Aubourg G 1978Donald Avery G 1962Arthur Ayvazian, Jr. G 1959Frank Bachner G 1966JKenneth Bain G 1983Chester Balestra G 1971Ronald W. Ballinger G 1978Robert Balluffi G 1950Ralph Barer G 1948Elizabeth Barnes 1985Lauren Barrett 1985Edward Bartholomew, Jr G 1951George Basta, Jr 1950Renato Bautista G 1957Wayne Beasley G 1965Gordon Beckhart, Jr G 1985Nancy Beckman 1984Cynthia Bedell G 1993George Beer G 1940Craig Belnap G 1995John Benjamin G 1965Mark Benz G 1961Susanne Berg 1983Lewis Berger 1950Courtney Berman 2000Herbert Berman 1961Celia Berry 1978Grant Beske G 1965Halton Beumer G 1973Dennis Bickford 1971George Biehl 1970Kathryn Black 1995Frederick Blackall G 1975Bryan Blackwell G 1996

Arthur Blanchard 1965Ilan Blech G 1964John Blendell G 1979Robert Block 1956David Bloom G 1952John Blum G 1979Joseph Boling 1964Laura Bonney 1986James Booth G 1972John Borland G 1981Ford Boulware 1936Romeo Bourdeau G 1956Harvey Bowen G 1971Terry Bower G 1965George Bradley 1952William Bradley G 1965Charles Brandt G 1987Anton Brasunas G 1950Geoffrey Brazer 1969Siegfried Brenner 1951Frank Briber, Jr 1943Peter Bridenbaugh G 1968Harold Brody G 1965Edward Bronstien 1951Brigitta Brott 1984William Brower, Jr G 1969Caryl Brown G 1995Frederick Brown 1949Harold Brown 1947Julie Brown 1988Norman Brown 1942Paul Brown G 1961William Brown 1967Gordon Bruggeman G 1960David Brunco 1988Henry Brush 1987Allan Bufferd G 1965Henry Butler 1958Richard Bye, Jr G 1978Kevin Byrd 1990Raymond Cairns, Jr G 1962Alan Campagna G 1970Geoffrey Campbell 1984John Campbell G 1957Rowland Cannon, Jr G 1975Altaf Carim 1982Douglas Carlson G 1989Toby Carlson 1958Dennis Carney G 1949Eugenia Carroll 1979Jeffrey Carter 1962Eva Casamento G 1992Louis Castleman G 1950Benjamin Chadwick 1932Chang-ShungChai G 1980Danielle Chamberlin 1996Bertha Chang G 1995Julius Chang G 1989Anil Chaudhry G 1983Stephen Checkoway 1962Eva Chen 2001Katherine Chen G 1996Albert Cheng 1992Kwan Cheng G 1981Pao-Luo Cheng G 1988

William Chernicoff 1997Albert Chestnut 1939Josephine Cheung G 1993Jean-Philip Chevaillier G 1982Tien-Hon Chiang G 1981Russell Chihoski 1954Gilbert Chin G 1963David Chipman G 1955Maria Chiu 1998Yung Choi G 1976Manoj Choudhary G 1980Uma Chowdhry G 1976Anita Chuang G 2001Kuo Chuang G 1965Stephen Chwastiak G 1963William Clancy 1963Mireille Clapp G 1978Harold Clark G 1982Robert Clark 1974Jason Claude 2002Harold Cleary 1954Lianna Cleland 1986Thomas Clevenger G 1961Harvey Cline G 1965Sherry Clough G 1998William Coblenz G 1981Mark Coggin G 1995Harvey Cohen 1972Morris Cohen G 1936Richard Cole G 1952Aliki Collins G 1987Gary Colton 1949Robert Colton 1953Leslie Compton 1993George Conard G 1952Joel Conwicke G 1969Edgar Cook G 1968David Cooke G 1982Hope Cooper 1990Steven Cooperman G 1992Normand Corbin G 1982Christopher Coronado G 1994Donald Corrigan G 1966Leslie Coughanour G 1947Jeanne Courter G 1981Thomas Courtney G 1964David Cranmer G 1981Kelly Craven 1986John Crichton G 1938Philip Crimmins 1952Mary Crooks G 1978Gorham Crosby 1934John Currie 1950John Dabney G 1961Harish Dalal G 1970Mark D’Andrea, Jr G 1962Ralph Davison G 1970Daniel Dawson G 1973Nicholas De Cristofaro G 1976Anacleto De Figueredo G 1993Jason De Santis 1992

David De Witte 1969Nancy Dean G 1992Thomas Decker G 1964Maureen Delaney 1986Chrysanthe Demetry G 1993Paul Denney G 1980Joseph Dennison, Jr 1947Katherine Derbyshire 1990James Deucher 1974Alan Devoe 1988Joseph Dhosi G 1959Riccardo Di Capua 1972Lester Diamond 1981Elaine Dickerson 1996Philip DiMascio G 1989M Dix, Jr 1967Robert Dixon 1968Satoshi Doi G 1978Leonard Dolhert G 1985Peter Domalavage G 1980Alan Donaldson 1959Alfred Donlevy G 1963Thomas Donnellan G 1988Mary Doswell G 1982Richard Douglass 1957Susan Drake 1982Joseph Driear G 1980James Drummond G 1970Michael Drzewinski G 1986Andrew Dubner G 1990Denis DuBois 1961Walter Duffin G 1967David Duhl G 1964Bradford Dulmaine 1972Robert Dulsky 1961David Dunand G 1991Edmund Dunn G 1976Daniel Dutilloy G 1959Saskia Duyvesteyn 1992Thomas W. Eagar G 1975Lawrence Eaton G 1960Andreas Echtermeyer G 1988George Economos G 1954William Edmiston 1962Athena Edmonds 1984William Eisen G 1968Kimberley Elcess G 1988Claus Emmer 1967Jim Eng 1935Alan English G 1963Nancy Enright 1996Eugene Erbin G 1953Bahri Ersoz G 1944Erten Eser G 1978Brian Fabes G 1988Daniel Fairweather 1977Michael Falcon G 2000Tso Yee Fan 1981Martha Farah 1977Matthew Farinelli G 1999Walter Fasse 1988

!MIT and DMSE thank our generous alumni/ae for their support

of MIT and its programs during the year ending June 30, 2002.

The year of graduation refers to the date the most recent Course 3 degree was conferred.

Graduate degrees are indicated with a “G.”

Donors

Michele Feenstra 1990Robert Feigelson G 1961Graham Fernandes 1993John Feroli 1946Ralph Feuerring 1943Howard Fiedler G 1953Davis Fields, Jr G 1957Reginald Fisk 1943Eugene Fitzgerald, Jr 1985Norman FitzGerald G 1933John Flaherty 1963Bertram Fleischer G 1958Merton Flemings G 1954Frederick Fletcher G 1972Sharon Fletcher 1988Patricia Foley G 1982Douglas Fong G 1998Mark Foringer 1987Bryan Fortson 1982Gordon Forward G 1966Franklin Foster G 1939Augustine Fou G 1995David Fox G 1994Frank Fradin 1963Robert Frank G 1989Gerald Frankel G 1985Robert Freed G 1978George Freedman 1943Conrad Frey 1952Edward Frey, Jr 1980John Fries, Jr G 1949Douglas Fuerstenau G 1953Edward Funk G 1951Rosendo Fuquen Molano G 1982Michelle Gabriel G 1983James Gado G 1985Ronald Gale G 1978Maria Galiano 1987Diana Garcia G 1994Sharon Gardner 1979Terry Garino G 1987Stephen Garrison G 1986Stefan Garvin G 1950John Gassner, Jr G 1985Robert Gates G 1989Paul Gault 1982Frank Gayle G 1985Dale Geiger G 1972Stanley Gelles G 1957Gordon Gemmell G 1956Richard Gentilman G 1973Nicole Gerrish G 1999Jean Giandomenico 1982Thomas Gibbs G 1964Heidi Gibson G 1993Martin Gilkes 1997Ralph Gilliland G 1968Emilio Giraldez Pared G 1986Joseph Glasgow 1950William Gleason 1950Stacy Gleixner 1992David Glen G 1974Loren Godfrey 1961Brage Golding, Jr G 1966Jon Goldman G 1971Joseph Goldstein G 1964David Gollob G 1980Stephen Goodman 1960Warren Goodnow 1961

Robert Goodof G 1973Joseph Goodwill 1956Harry Goodwin 1937Alan Gordon 1987Scott Gore 1982Lester Gott 1941William Gourdin G 1977Christine Govern 1996Pamela Graham 1987Susan Grampp 1988Dodd Grande G 1987Lisa Granick 1983Maisha Gray 1999Amy Grayson 1997Mark Green G 1988Martin Green G 1978Barry Greene G 1966Richard Greenwalt 1951Abbie Gregg 1974Karen Greig 1996William Griffith G 1950Vernon Griffiths G 1955Michael Groleau 1990Allen Grove 1990Jacob Gubbay 1956John Gullotti 1978Honglin Guo G 1998Amita Gupta 1991Rita Gupta G 1994Joseph Gurland G 1951John Haggerty G 1966Raymond Hakim G 1968Ernest Hall G 1977Eugene Hall G 1954John Halloran G 1977Mary Hamilton 1997Thomas Hamilton 1956Craig Hammes 1975Erika Hanley-Onken 1995William Hannan, Jr G 1947Rodney Hanneman G 1964Steven Hansen G 1978Stanley Hanson 1976Marvin Happ G 1956Yutaka Hara G 1987Robert Hard G 1957Anne Hardy G 1988Marnie Harker G 1997James Harris G 1969Michael Harris 1985Ronald Harris 1953Susan Hartfield-Wuns G 1988Hans Hartmann G 1964William Hartrick 1954Glen Hartzler G 1966Wayne Hasz G 1984Frank Hatch 1935Anya Hawrylchak 1998George Haymaker, Jr 1959Francois Haymann G 1968Andreas Hegedus 1979Herman Heideklang G 1965Robert Hentschel G 1936Hamlet Herring G 1983Laurence Hicks G 1933Nelson Hicks 1960Loriann Higashi 2000Lloyd Hihara G 1989Gregory Hildeman G 1978

David Hill G 1970Genevieve Himle 1981Charles Himmelblau G 1975Donald Hixson G 1974Lan Hoang G 1996Diane Hodges Popps 1995Ronald Hollander 1974Kenneth Holmes 1955Mon-Fen Hong G 2000Richard Hood G 1981William Hosford, Jr G 1959Charles Houska G 1957Robert Howard, Jr G 1947Simone Hruda G 1992Peter Hsieh G 1999YuLun Hsin 2002Can Hu G 1980Helen Huang 2001Edward Hucke G 1954KerriAnn Hue 2002Nancy Huelsmann 1982Carl Hunermund 1993Albert Hung 2001Gordon Hunter G 1984George Hurley G 1965James Huss G 1990Jennifer Hyman 1987Jeri Ikeda G 1992Tadashi Imai G 1997Henry Inouye G 1952Emi Ishida 1988Farris Jabara 1966Ann Jacob 1989Scott Jacobsmeyer 1992Murray Jacobson 1948Paul Jacobson 1960Donald Jaffe G 1953Bor Jang G 1982John Jensen, Jr G 1971Jimmy Jia 2002Eva Jiran G 1990Earl Johns G 1985Eric Johnson 1967Harry Johnson 1932Stanley Johnson 1936Thad Johnson 1993Timothy Johnson G 1987Walter Johnson 1951William Johnson 1942James Johnston G 1953Tamala Jonas G 1993Eric Jones G 1987Kenneth Jones G 1968Bertrand Journet G 1986Kenneth Jow 2002Janet Jozwiak 1982Andreas Judas 1989Debra Judelson 1973Debra Kaiser G 1985Rachel Kaminer 1989Robert Kane G 1968Junichi Kaneko G 1967Christopher Kantner 1997Firoze Katrak G 1979Theodoulos Kattamis G 1965Allan Katz 1969Joel Katz G 1984Maurice Katz 1942Robert Katz G 1969

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E D I T O R :

Rachel A. Kemper, DMSE Communications Coordinator

P R I N T I N G :

Arlington Lithograph

A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S :

Thanks to Tech Talk for allowing us to reprint their

March 2002 article on the NanoLab and Professor Witt’s

obituary. Thanks to Prof. Dave Roylance for the appreci-

ation of Prof. Fred McGarry. Thanks to Jeff Dunn, Kristin

Gullage of Children’s Hospital Boston, Garry Maskaly,

Karlene Maskaly, Steve Malley, and Gerry Hughes for

photographic support. Betsy Cullen Photography pro-

duced the picture of Prof. Stormer and the image used

on the front cover and on pages 8 and 9. Thanks to

Maryann Czerepak of MIT’s Publishing Services Bureau

for good advice and last minute help.

R E C E N T A D D I T I O N S T O

T H E D M S E F A C U L T Y

We are pleased to announce that Angela Belcher, Randolph E.

Kirchain, Christopher A. Schuh, and Francesco Stellacci have joined

our faculty this fall.

Angela Belcher

Most recently, Professor Belcher was

a faculty member in the Department

of Chemistry at the University of

Texas at Austin. She is now the John

Chipman Career Development

Associate Professor of Materials

Science and Engineering in our

Department and the Biological Engineering Division. She holds a

Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Santa

Barbara.

Randy Kirchain

Professor Kirchain is Assistant

Professor of Materials Science and

Engineering. Previously, he was

Assistant Director of the Materials

Systems Laboratory at MIT. Professor

Kirchain holds a Ph.D. from our

Department. His research deals with

the development of methods to model the cost of manufacture and

the sustainability of current and emerging materials systems and has

focused on automotive manufacturing systems.

Chris Schuh

Professor Schuh is Assistant Professor

of Materials Science and Engineering;

Professor Schuh was most recently at

Lawrence Livermore Laboratories and

holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern

University. His research is principally

in microstructural design, with

emphasis on the microstructure-property relationship in engineered

materials. His group studies “grain boundary engineering” which

allows dramatic improvement to metals and alloys in terms of crack-

ing, creep, and corrosion resistance.

Francesco Stellacci

Professor Stellacci is Assistant

Professor of Materials Science and

Engineering. He holds a doctorate in

Materials Science Engineering from

the Politecnico di Milano and comes

to us from the University of Arizona where he was a post-doctoral

researcher working on three-dimensional optical memories and

creation of nanoscale electronic devices.

Krystyn Van Vliet

Krystyn J. Van Vliet has recently

accepted a position as Assistant

Professor of Materials Science and

Engineering in our Department. Dr.

Van Vliet conducted her doctoral

studies in our Department. She is

pursuing post-doctoral research

investigating cellular and molecular mechanics at a Harvard Medical

School associated facility before joining our ranks in September

2003.

P R O M O T I O N

We are pleased to announce that W. Craig Carter will be promot-

ed to full professor, effective July 1. Prof. Carter’s research encom-

passes interface and surface science, computational materials sci-

ence with a particular focus on mesoscale modeling and materials

properties, and ceramics and ceramics processing. He has served

MIT and DMSE in numerous capacities, including the Committee

on Academic Performance and its Subcommittee on Pass/NR and

AP Credit, chairing DMSE's graduate student hosting weekends for

two years, and currently serving as a Sophomore Advisor and as a

member of our Undergraduate Committee. He received the

Graduate Teaching Award for the School of Engineering in 1997

and is highly regarded for his incorporation of computer simulations

into classroom teaching.

Around DMSE

Angela Belcher, Associate Professor of Materials Science and

Engineering and Biological Engineering, is included in Popular

Science magazine’s list of “scientists who are shaking up their fields

and whose work will touch your life.” Prof. Belcher, who joined MIT

in fall 2002, is regarded as one of the country’s most innovative sci-

entists. Her work with biomaterials integrates the fields of inorgan-

ic chemistry, materials chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology

and electrical engineering.

Prof. Belcher also won the very prestigious World Technology

Award in the Category of Materials. These awards “honor those

innovative individuals (or, at times, co-equal teams) and companies

from across the globe who most contribute to the advance of

emerging technologies of all sorts for the benefit of business and

society. They especially seek to honor those innovators who have

done work recently which will have the greatest likely future signif-

icance and impact over the long-term... and who will likely become

or remain ‘key players’ in the technological drama unfolding in

coming years. These Awards are about those individuals and com-

panies whose work today will ....create the strongest ‘ripple effects’

in the future... in both expected and unexpected ways.”

Yet-Ming Chiang, Kyocera Professor of Ceramics, was awarded

the 2002 YankeeTek Innovator of the Year Award. He is co-

founder and Chief Scientist of A123 Systems, a new spin-off from

MIT, developing a revolutionary, low-cost battery technology. The

company’s technology will enable portable machines and digital

devices to run much longer and charge faster. The technology’s

small format, long run time, and fast charge enables new applica-

tions in the laptop, cell phone and PDA markets.

Thomas W. Eagar, Lord Foundation Professor of Materials

Engineering and Materials Systems, presented the General Electric

Distinguished Lecture, “Advanced Materials: Steel to Buckyballs,”

on December 6th at the invitation of the Materials Science and

Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Recognized for his “advances in welding and joining of metals,

ceramics and electronic materials, alternate manufacturing process-

es, and for leadership in curriculum review and teaching,” Prof.

Eagar is one of 291 members who recently became Fellows of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science. Fellows are

recognized for the efforts in advancing science or fostering applica-

tions that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.

Professor Linn Hobbs received the 2002 Arthur C. Smith Award for

“sustained notable contributions to the undergraduate program at

MIT”.

Prof. Hobbs has been elected to the Board of Directors of the

American Ceramic Society.

Darrell J. Irvine, Karl Van Tassel Assistant Professor of Biomedical

Engineering, is one of the 2003 recipients of the Arnold and Mabel

Beckman Young Investigator Awards. These awards are intended to

provide research support to promising young faculty members in

the chemical and life sciences. Prof. Irvine was recognized for his

research on “Organized Co-Cultures for Direct Observation of

Dynamics in Regulatory T Cell Function.”

Klavs F. Jensen, Lammot duPont Professor of Chemical

Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

was elected to Membership in the National Academy of

Engineering. The citation read, “For fundamental contributions to

multi-scale chemical reaction engineering with important applica-

tions in microelectronic materials processing and microreactor

technology.”

Last June, Professor Ronald M. Latanision was named to the

Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board by President Bush. This is

not Prof. Latanision’s first experience with public service; previous-

ly, he had worked on a Department of Energy review of the con-

tainment of nuclear waste and as a science advisor to the U.S.

House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology.

Professor Christine Ortiz received a Presidential Early Career

Award for Scientists and Engineers which was presented at the

White House in Washington, DC this fall. Her sponsoring organiza-

tion was the NSF.

Subra Suresh, Ford Professor of Engineering and Head of the

Department, was elected to Membership in the National Academy

of Engineering. The citation read, “For development of mechanical

behavior theory and experiment for advanced materials and appli-

cations, and for demonstrating fruitful new avenues for structural

study.”

Prof. Suresh will also serve as a member of the Materials Section

Peer Committee of the National Academy of Engineering during

2003–2006.

Prof. Suresh delivered the R.B. Trull Distinguished Lecture in

Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in March 2002. The

title of his lecture was “The Size Dependence of Mechanical

Properties.”

Faculty Honors

In December 2002, Prof. Suresh delivered the General Electric

Distinguished Lecture at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The

lecture was on “Nanoscale Contact at Surfaces: Engineering and

Biological Materials.”

Claude Lupis, Visiting Lecturer, was made a Fellow of the American

Society for Metals, or ASM International. The citation reads “For

seminal contributions to the application of thermodynamic princi-

ples to chemical metallurgy, and for the development of economic

analysis for large-scale metallurgical systems”.

John Cahn, former DMSE faculty member and long-time friend of

the Department, is the recipient of the 2002 Bower Award and Prize

for Achievement in Science, a high honor given by the Franklin

Institute in Philadelphia. A staff member at the National Institute for

Standards and Technology since 1977, Dr. Cahn blazed new paths

in physical metallurgy. In so doing, he has opened the way to revo-

lutionary improvements in many fields of investigation, from physics

and chemistry to demography and economics. From greatly

improved understanding of thermodynamic principles to his key

role in the discovery of “quasicrystals,” Dr. Cahn’s work has had an

enormous impact.

O B I T U A R Y

August F. Witt, internationally

noted for his research in electron-

ic materials and his devotion to

teaching undergraduates, died

Oct. 7 of gastric cancer at his

home in Winchester.

Professor Witt was born in

Innsbruck, Austria, in 1931. From

1953-54 he did graduate

research in nuclear chemistry

with Madame Joliot-Curie, a

1935 Nobel laureate, in Paris. In

1958 he worked on radiation chemistry at the Atomic Energy

Research Establishment in Harwell, England. He received his Ph.D.

in 1959 in physical chemistry from the University of Innsbruck.

Professor Witt came to MIT in 1960 as a research associate in what

was then the Department of Metallurgy, working on surface chem-

istry problems related to mineral flotation. In 1962 he was appoint-

ed to the faculty as an assistant professor and his primary research

focus became the processing and characterization of electronic

materials. He was promoted to professor in materials science in

1972.

In 1974 he received NASA’s Outstanding Scientific Achievement

Award for his work as a Skylab co-principal investigator for advanc-

ing materials processing in space. In 1976 Austria presented him

with the Exner Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Science and

Technology. Professor Witt was a member of the American

Association of Crystal Growth (past President 1975-1981), the

American Ceramic Society, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi. He chaired

NASA’s Electronic Materials Working Group from 1982-89.

In 1990 he was the first recipient of the Amar Bose Award for

Sustained Efforts in Undergraduate Teaching as well as being

named TDK Professor in Materials Science and Engineering. In 1992

he received the Space Processing Award from the American

Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In 1993 he became Ford

Professor of Engineering and was also elected to a 10-year term as

a MacVicar Faculty Fellow.

“As a researcher, Professor Witt has made major contributions to

the understanding of the processing and characterization of elec-

tronic materials,” said Professor Merton C. Flemings, former head

of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. “He is

widely and warmly respected for his outstanding commitment to

students and for his enthusiastic and innovative teaching, especial-

ly in the first-year course, 3.091, Introduction to Solid State

Chemistry, which he headed for over two decades. Half of MIT’s

undergraduates over that time have been his students.”

“Professor Witt was an outstanding teacher and faculty colleague

in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering since

1962,” said Professor Subra Suresh, current head of the depart-

ment. “His passion for undergraduate teaching and his strong

concern for the welfare of the MIT undergraduates were

extraordinary.”

For many years, Professor Witt was a member of Austria’s national

saber fencing team and was national saber champion in 1956. He

tied for first at the Academic World Championships in 1954. He was

also a meticulous gardener, had a passion for classical music, and

was an avid Boston sports fan.

Professor Witt is survived by his wife Karin (Morawski), sons Karl of

Winchester and Thomas of Boston, and daughter Andrea (Witt)

Sendlenski, and Andrea’s husband Michael Sendlenski of

Winchester. A funeral Mass was held at Saint Mary’s Church in

Winchester on Oct. 12. The August F. Witt Student Fund will pro-

vide emergency financial assistance to undergraduates in the

Department of Materials Science and Engineering. A memorial serv-

ice will be held in the MIT Chapel at 3:30 on May 12, 2003.

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Prof. August F. Witt

R E T I R E M E N T

Prof. Fred McGarry retired

from MIT this past June, after

more than 50 years at the

Institute as an undergraduate,

graduate student, Research

Assistant, Instructor, Assistant

Professor, Associate Professor,

and Professor. Prof. McGarry is

a Vermont native, and gradu-

ated from a joint undergradu-

ate program between MIT

and Middlebury College in

Vermont. He continued at

MIT for graduate studies, earning an SM degree and becoming

associated with Prof. Al Dietz, an early pioneer in the use of com-

posite materials for construction. Fred then joined the faculty as a

member of the Materials of Construction Division in Civil

Engineering, eventually—as he put it—negotiating the academic

minefields to Professor rank. In 1975, he moved to the Materials

Science and Engineering Department, maintaining a joint appoint-

ment with Civil Engineering.

Prof. McGarry’s scholarly activities have centered on polymer engi-

neering, to include fiber-reinforced composites. He is well known

for many pioneering contributions in this field, perhaps most

notably the development of rubber toughening in thermosetting

resins. This is a vital part of modern composites technology. He

worked effectively with industrial colleagues in this effort, and a

very strong association with the plastics industry has always been a

part of Prof. McGarry’s work at MIT. Several industry-leading firms

have employed him for many years as a principal consultant and

sponsored his on-campus research.

His very active research and consulting career did not keep him

from making many contributions to teaching and administration at

MIT. He has always taught double the usual teaching load for

Departmental faculty, and several of his subjects, such as 3.91

Mechanical Properties of Plastics and 3.92 Composite Materials,

have been foundational subjects for graduate students in this field.

His administrative activities have included a term as Secretary of the

Institute Faculty, Chairman of the ROTC and Parking Committees,

Director of the Program in Polymer Science and Technology (PPST),

and Director of the MIT Summer Session.

Prof. McGarry’s contributions to MIT and to the plastics industry are

truly outstanding. His dedication, encyclopedic knowledge, and col-

legiality will be deeply missed by his many colleagues and friends.

We all hope he will be here often in emeritus status, with only

slightly reduced activity, for many years to come.

N E W C H A I R

A P P O I N T M E N T S

On November 26, Professor Thomas Magnanti, Dean of the School

of Engineering announced the appointment of Subra Suresh as a

Ford Professor of Engineering, succeeding the late Professor August

Witt who held this Ford Professorship.

Ford professorships are awarded to outstanding faculty members in

the School of Engineering who are recognized as leaders and inno-

vators in their chosen disciplines. The Ford Professorships were

established in 1962 with a grant from the Ford Foundation. At that

time, the School appointed five faculty members to Ford chairs:

Professor Morris Cohen, Professor Robert Fano, Professor Harold

Mickley, Professor Ascher Shapiro, and Professor David White.

Over the years, appointment as a Ford Professor has continued to

be highly selective and the roster of past and present Ford

Professors is indeed a distinguished one.

Anne M. Mayes will be the Toyota Professor of Materials Science

and Engineering. Mayes’ research aims to create new nanostruc-

tured polymeric materials for technological use. Her zeal for teach-

ing is widely known and has been recognized as a MacVicar Fellow.

Gerbrand Ceder will be the R. P. Simmons Professor of Materials

Science and Engineering. Ceder uses both experimental and com-

putational methods to study first principles computations, predict-

ing the properties of materials from basic physics. His results are

used in materials research and design.

W. Craig Carter will be the Lord Foundation Associate Professor of

Materials Science and Engineering. Carter applies theoretical and

computational materials science to microstructural evolution and

the relations between material properties and microstructure.

As noted previously, Professor Eugene A. Fitzgerald has been

appointed the Merton C. Flemings-SMA Professor of Materials

Engineering and Professor Caroline Ross has been appointed

Merton C. Flemings Career Development Associate Professor of

Materials Science and Engineering.

Prof. Fred McGarry

U N D E R G R A D U A T E

S T U D E N T A W A R D S

Afua Banful, of Kia Accra, Ghana, was named Outstanding Junior

in the DMSE Class of 2003.

Lauren Frick, of North Huntingdon, PA, received the Award for

Outstanding Service to the DMSE Community for her role as an

active and innovative President of SUMS (the Society of

Undergraduate Materials Scientists).

Robin Ivester, of Charleston, SC, was recognized for the

Outstanding Senior Thesis, “Fabrication and Magneto-Mechanical

Characterization of Ni-Mn-Ga Ferromagnetic Shape Memory

Composites for Energy Absorption and Damping.” Her thesis advi-

sors were Sam Allen and Bob O’Handley.

Jamie Mak of Getzville, NY, received The Meredith Thoms

Memorial Scholarship in the amount of $2000 from the Society of

Women Engineers.

Trisha Montalbo, of State College, PA, was named Outstanding

Student in the DMSE Class of 2002.

Trisha Montalbo was also recognized for having a Perfect 5.0

Cumulative Grade Point Average and was made a member of Phi

Beta Kappa.

Tiffany Santos, of Valdosta, GA, was recognized for her

Outstanding Senior Thesis on “Ferromagnetic Europium Oxide as a

Spin-Filter Material.” Her advisor was Dr. Jagadeesh S. Moodera of

the Magnet Laboratory.

Tiffany Santos received honorable mention from the Association of

MIT Alumnae’s senior academic award and also received an

Undergraduate Materials Research Initiative (UMRI) Award from

the Materials Research Society (MRS); these awards are designed to

introduce undergraduates to the excitement of discovery through

research in materials science and engineering by providing funds for

research and subsequent awards.

Steven Tobias, of Plainview, NY, was named winner of the Best 3B

Internship Report for his report entitled, “Study of the Structure and

Electrical Transport Properties of near Stoichiometric Indium

Monoselenide.” His advisor was Prof. August Witt.

G R A D U A T E S T U D E N T

A W A R D S

Heidi Burch was a 2002 Materials Day Poster Session winner

(supervisor: Prof. Yoel Fink) for her poster, “Toward Development

of an Edible Photonic Crystal.”

Augustine Urbas was also named a Materials Day Poster Session

winner for his presentation on “Block Copolymer Photonic Crystal

Active Materials.”

Amy Grayson, a PPST/DMSE Grad student advised by Michael

Cima and Robert Langer was co-winner of PPST’s new Institute-

wide OMNOVA Signature Award for Excellence in Polymer

Research for her research on “A Resorbable Polymeric

Microreservoir Device for Drug Delivery.”

Abel Hastings (M.Eng. 2002) was awarded the FEF (Foundry

Education Foundation) Scholarship for an Outstanding Student with

an Interest in Metals Casting.

Christopher P. Henry received honorable mention for his presenta-

tion at the International Society for Optical Engineering’s (SPIE)

annual conference in San Diego, CA.

Ryan J. Keshner was awarded a 2003 Beckman Institute

Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign. In the fall, he will start work in the areas of optics and

photonics with Profs. Jennifer Lewis, Paul Braun, and Pierre Wiltzius.

Jinsang Kim, Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering in June

2001 IUPAC award for the best Ph.D thesis in the chemical sciences.

Hartmut Rudmann received an MRS Graduate Student Award at

the Dec. 2001 MRS meeting in Boston. These awards honor and

encourage students whose academic achievements and current

materials research display a high order of excellence and distinction.

MRS seeks to recognize students of exceptional ability who “show

promise for future substantial achievements in materials research.”

Gianni Taraschi was named an MRS Gold Medal winner at the Fall

2002 meeting in Boston. These Awards are made to graduate stu-

dents who authored or co-authored symposium papers which

exemplify significant and timely research. Taraschi’s talk and paper,

“SiGe-on-Insulator and Strained-Si-on-Insulator: Fabrication

Obstacles and Solutions,” was co-authored by A.J. Pitera, L.M.

McGill, Z. Cheng, M.L. Lee, T.A. Langdo, and E.A. Fitzgerald. The

method pioneered and demonstrated in the paper is being reviewed

by industry as a substrate fabrication technique for future high-per-

formance electronics. Dr. Taraschi successfully defended his thesis in

Dec. 2002 and received his Ph.D. from Course 3 in Feb. 2003.

Another 2002 winner of MRS Graduate Student Presentation Gold

Medal was Krystyn Van Vliet. Dr. Van Vliet graduated from Course

3 in Aug. 2002.

Nicole Zacharia is the 2002 winner of the John Wulff Award for

Excellence in Teaching.1110

“In the future, we will see that nanoscience will produce the most

important technology ever created,” said Horst Stormer, 1998

Nobel Laureate in Physics and Professor of Physics and Professor of

Applied Physics at Columbia University and Adjunct Physics Director

of Lucent Technologies. His talk, “Small Wonders: The World of

NanoScience,” was this year's John Wulff Lecture for an audience

of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.

While he was in town, Stormer took the opportunity to drop by the

Magnet Lab, site of some of the research which led to his Nobel

Prize. He pointed out that he had been looking for signs of an elec-

tron crystal but discovered the fractional quantum Hall effect.

“Don't throw those accidents out,” he cautioned, “they can be very

important.”

He explained that materials properties are determined at the

nanoscale and that manipulation at this scale is like using “the most

fantastic Lego set in the universe.” Researchers have used

nanoscience to build the fastest

and quietest transistors yet.

However, while atoms can be

moved and items can be built at

this scale, “true science is self-

assembly at the nanoscale,” said

Stormer. He concluded by say-

ing, “Mother Nature is a master

of this. We are still freshmen.”

The Wulff Lecture honors Prof.

John Wulff, a DMSE professor

from 1937 to 1973 and the first

instructor of 3.091, Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. The only

restriction given to the Wulff Lecturers is to entertain while com-

municating the state-of-the-art to undergraduates. Prof. Stormer

ably met the challenge.

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