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Summer 2000
Vol. 17, No. 1
IN THIS ISSUE:
Message from the Dean
Project Profiles
• Swift Project Keeps Penn State Among
Space-Science Leaders
• High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Effort Includes
Penn State Contingent
Faces of Penn State
• Abhay Ashtekar
• Gordon Garmire
• Peter Mészáros
• Larry Ramsey
• Alexander Wolszczan
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the Cover: Chandra
X-ray image of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) made with
the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). NASA selected it as
the first image produced by the Chandra observatory to be released
to the public. The ACIS X-ray camera was conceived and developed for
NASA by Penn State and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under
the leadership of Gordon Garmire, Evan Pugh Professor of Astronomy
and Astrophysics at Penn State. In recognition for his contributions
to the Chandra observatory, Garmire has been granted a block of guaranteed
observing time. Other astronomers worldwide submit competitive proposals
to NASA to obtain observing time on the ACIS X-ray camera. See stories
about discoveries made with Chandra's ACIS
X-ray camera. |
Research Rundown
• Research in Hubble Deep Field Affirms Galaxies
as
Sites for Early Star Birth
• Team of Astronomers Finds Most Distant Object
• Chandra Images a Young Supernova
• Chandra Uses X-Rays to Gauge Wind Near
Black Hole
• ACIS X-Ray Camera Productive Aboard
Space Telescope
• First Results Reported as HET Enters Early
Operations
• Feigelson Works with Group
to Discover Young Stars
• Sloan Survey Discovers 'Methane Dwarf'
• Brown Dwarf 'Missing Link' Discovered
Outreach
• Programs Reach to Community
Honoris Causa
• Mészáros Awarded
Rossi Prize, Named Simon Guggenheim Fellow
• Ewing Named Simon Guggenheim
Fellow, Receives Two Awards for Outstanding Research
• Fedoroff Nominated
for Science Board
• Walker Named a Fellow
of the British Royal Society
• Penrose Named Honorary
Fellow of Britain's Institute of Physics
• Zhang Named Simon Guggenheim
Fellow
• Higson Earns Noll Award
for Teaching
• Ono Selected for Presidential
Award, Appointed Louis Martarano Professor, and Awarded
Packard Fellowship
• Five Recognized as Distinguished Professors
• Chan Elected to National
Academy of Sciences
• Wolszczan Receives
Gold Medal Award
• Five Professors Honored
With Faculty Scholar Medals
• Diehl, Eides Named
American Physical Society Fellows
• Desjarlais and Li Receive
Early Career Development Award
• Schafer Selected for
Early Careers in Prevention Science Award
• Crespi Honored with
Downsbrough Faculty Development Professorship in Physics
• Sloan Foundation Names Belmonte
and Dolgopyat Fellows
• Strickman Receives
Humboldt Award
• Rao Honored With International
Conference and Indian National Award, and Awarded
Two HonoraryDegrees
and Prize for Innovation
• Workman Appointed Paul
Berg Professor of Biochemistry
• Robinett Honored With
Atherton Award
• Matthews Named Fellow
by AAAS
• Putt Rewarded With Support
Staff Award
• Eberly College Staff Members
Honored
Features
• American Chemical Society Places Landmark
on Campus
• Photo Features
New Faculty
• Squire Booker,
assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology
• Dmitry Dolgopyat,
assistant professor of mathematics
• Alexander Dranishnikov,
professor of mathematics
• Peter Eklund, professor
of physics
• David Hunter, assistant
professor of statistics
• Joseph Kiesecker,
assistant professor of biology
• Jouni Kuha, assistant professor
of statistics
• Mark Levi, professor of
mathematics
• Robert Vaughan, professor
of mathematics
New Department Head
• Andrew G. Ewing, holder
of the J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Natural Sciences, professor
of chemistry,
and adjunct professor of neuroscience and anatomy
Alumni & Philanthropy News
• Greetings
• Grand Destiny at Midpoint
• Obituaries
• Alumni Notes
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