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 Fall 1997 -- Vol 15, No. 1

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IN THIS ISSUE

Research Rundown

• Penn State Students Build New Telescope's First Scientific Instrument
• New Species of Ocean-Bottom Animal Discovered Living on Frozen Natural Gas
• Scientists Discover How Genes Work Together to Control Neural Development
• Powerful X-Ray Camera Ready to View Universe in a Different Light
• New Extra-Solar Planet Discovered: Circular Orbit Suggests It Formed Like Planets in Our Solar System
• Retrospective: First Extra-Solar Planet was Discovered by a Penn State Astronomer

Honoris Causa

• Nei Elected to National Academy of Sciences and Japan Society of Human Genetics
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Andrews as Fellow
• Workman Is Penn State's First Howard Hughes Investigator
• Ewing Earns Graduate Faculty Teaching Award
• Weiss Named Guggenheim Fellow
• Liu, Xi, and Chaudhuri Receive National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards
• Mueller Receives Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
• Burago and Natan Named Sloan Foundation Fellows
• Husband-Wife Team Win Major Science Book Award Grand Prize
• Banavar Honored with Faculty Scholar Medal
• Fedoroff Receives Sigma Xi Medal
• Katok Named Shley Professor
• Ramsey Honored by Discover Magazine
• Rao Given His 20th Honorary Doctorate Degree
• Allara Honored by AAAS
• Statistical Association Honors Babu
• Andrews Receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of Parma in Italy
• Wayne Named Distinguished University Teacher

• Philip C. Bevilacqua
• W. Nielsen Brandt
• Craig E. Cameron
• Shyamoli Chaudhuri
• Stéphane Coutu
• Vincent H. Crespi
• John R. Desjarlais
• Timothy E. Glass
• Jenny Xiaoe Li
• Ken Ono
• Joseph Reese
• Billie J. Swalla

Alumni and Philanthropy News

• Alumni and Friends
• Private Support, 1996-97
• Message from the Alumni Board President
• Martarano Establishes Penn State's First Endowed Fund for International Cooperative Education
• Critical Support for New Faculty
• Chu, Tatum, and Webster Honored as Alumni Fellows
• Balog Named Distinguished Alumnus
• Outstanding Science Alumni Awards
• Distinguished Service Awards

• Ernest H. Coleman
• Howard W. (Jake) Jacobson
• Jeffrey S. Lannin
• Arthur C. Manning
• Joseph B. Morris
• Langhorne H. Brickwedde
• Warren W. Miller
• Ernest C. Pollard

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