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Alison Tomlin has been named Argonne's Maria Goeppert Mayer Distinguished Scholar for fiscal year 2003.
Tomlin is a senior lecturer for the Department of Fuel and Energy at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. At Argonne, she will work with the Chemical Dynamics Group of the Chemistry Division and collaborate with the Mathematics and Computer Science Division.
"I plan to visit Argonne in several stages," Tomlin said, "probably for about three months at a time over the next few years." She expects to begin in spring 2003.
Tomlin's research interests include modeling pollution emissions from combustion processes and developing air pollution models that track the dispersion and transformation of pollutants as they travel through the atmosphere. As an MGM scholar, her objectives will be to develop accurate and efficient methods of applying reduced chemical models and analyzing global uncertainty in simulations of these phenomena.
The MGM Distinguished Scholar Award is named for Argonne physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963. The award was established to recognize outstanding achievements by female scientists and engineers and to enable the scholars to conduct innovative research using Argonne resources.
Tomlin is a member of the Combustion Institute. In addition to the MGM award, her research has earned her a five-year advanced fellowship from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council.
Jill E. Morgenthaler (OTD) has been appointed Argonne's chief of staff.
Morgenthaler will monitor the progress of appointed directorate officers, executives and staff members, and make sure Directorate projects move forward. Her responsibilities include ensuring that members of the Directorate and Management Council have the resources needed to complete their assigned tasks, providing necessary assistance with staff projects, reporting staff progress to the laboratory director and identifying concerns.
Before coming to Argonne, Morgenthaler served in the U.S. Army from 1976 to 1981, and now is a colonel and brigade commander in the U.S. Army Reserves. She also has experience as an international trade specialist with the U.S. Department of Commerce and as a special events manager for a software publishing corporation.
In 1991, Morgenthaler joined Argonne as a special events manager in the Office of Public Affairs. In 1997 she transferred to the Electronics and Computing Technologies Division as a business development officer and continued there until her recent appointment.
Morgenthaler resides in Des Plaines and has delivered award-winning speeches as an active member of the Argonne Toastmasters Club.
She holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Pennsylvania State University, a master's in international policy studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a master's in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.
The Idaho section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) invites Argonne-West employees to celebrate National Chemistry Week Oct. 20-26.
The annual event unites ACS local sections, industries, schools and individuals in communicating the importance of chemistry to our quality of life. This years' theme is "Chemistry Keeps Us Clean."
The event will be celebrated nationwide by 188 ACS local sections, industrialists, educators and promoters of chemistry awareness. Locally, Mary Adamic (NT) and other volunteers will visit schools in the region and perform hands-on activities with students. Last year, more than 5,000 area students were reached directly by Idaho section chemistry week activities.
The celebration will kick off with a presentation by Arlo Luke, president and CEO of Varsity Contractors, Inc., at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, in the University of Idaho Idaho Falls Center Auditorium at 1776 University Place.
Other scheduled events for National Chemistry Week:
Throughout October, a chemistry week
display will be available in the Idaho Falls Public Library Junior Department. Publications
containing experiments that use household materials will be available adjacent to the junior
department reference desk.
A display will be set up in the
Argonne-West L&O Building lobby Oct. 21-25, with handouts, activity schedules and promotional
materials.
Saturday, Oct. 26, at 2 p.m. John
Sutter, professor of chemistry at Idaho State University, will perform a chemistry show in the
Idaho Falls Public Library Large Conference Room.
On Saturday, Nov. 2, from 9:30 a.m. -
4 p.m., local ACS section members and chemistry students from Idaho Falls High School will perform
more than 30 hands-on experiments and demonstrations in the Idaho Falls Public Library's large
conference room. The experiments will include a "Glo-germ" hand washing activity and demonstrations
of silver cleaning, water hardness, cleaning agent comparisons and the popular "making slime."
For more information about Idaho section chemistry week activities, contact the Idaho section coordinator Mary Adamic (NT) at ext. 3-7858.
The winners of the second week's ACA raffle were Vito Berardi (ECT-CTT), Donald Graczyk (CMT-AC) and Arthur Ruthenberg (PHY).
Each of the winners received $25, and their division coordinators were given $10.
"Last year, Argonne-East employees donated $404,000 to the Argonne Combined Appeal," said Argonne Director Hermann Grunder. "We should try and break that record this year."
Every week in October there will be a new raffle. To participate, employees should sign and return their ACA forms and envelopes to their coordinator, even if they don't plan to contribute. The envelopes and forms should have come in a package through interoffice mail at the beginning of October. Every Friday, the coordinator will turn in the envelopes collected for the week to be entered into a drawing.
The next two weeks will follow the same guidelines as the first two - winners receive $25 and coordinators receive $10. The third week, however, there will only be two winners, and the fourth week just one winner will be drawn.
ACA provides donations to 20 agencies. Most of these agencies use the money locally, in the Chicago area, to help our neighbors.
Details can be found on the ACA Web site.
Argonne's Directorate has renewed funding for 17 research projects under the competitive grants component of the laboratory directed research and development (LDRD) program.
The projects are recommended to the Directorate by a peer review committee. More information on the LDRD program is available online.
New projects approved under this component of the LDRD program will appear in a future edition of Argonne News.
Renewed projects include:
Raymond Klann, TD, Improvement of
Coated Gallium Arsenide Fast-Neutron Detectors
Ronald Kulak, RAE, High Fidelity
Modeling of the Human Spine on Parallel Computing Platforms
George Crabtree, Ulrich Welp, Jeffrey
Eastman Wai-Kwong Kwok, MSD; Luis Nunez, Michael Kaminski, CMT; John Hull, Kenneth Kasza, ET,
Processing and Magnetic Manipulation of Layered Particles for Novel Cancer Treatment Applications
Hugh O'Neill, Kenneth Brubaker,
Michael Vogt (ES); Fred Stevens, BIO, Gas Phase Decontamination Technology for Sensitive Equipment
Sreenath Gupta, ES; Claude Reed, TD,
Laser Ignition System for Natural Gas Reciprocating Engines
Hassan Arafat, Ralph Leonard, CMT;
Kenneth Nash, CHM, A New Process for the Removal of Hazardous Organic Compounds from Contaminated
Groundwater using an Environmentally Friendly Solvent Extraction Technology
Nela Zavaljevski, RAE; Fred Stevens,
BIO, Support Vector Machine Algorithms to Merge Protein Structural Analysis and Machine Learning
Paula Moon, ES; Deborah Stevens, MCS;
Giselle Sandi-Tapia, CHM, Computational Modeling of Clay-Polymer Nanocomposite Membranes
Mark Knickelbein, CHM, Sam Bader, MSD,
Magnetically Stabilized Metal Clusters
Lin X. Chen, David Tiede, Albert
Wagner, CHM; Larry Curtiss, MSD, New Photonic Materials Based on the Self-Assembly of
Nano-Structured Metallo-Organic Building Blocks
David Kaufman, ET; Stephen Streiffer,
MSD, Band Gap Engineering of Transparent Conducting Oxides
John Hryn, ES; Michael Pellin, MSD,
Molten Oxide Electrolysis: A Basis for Carbon-Free Steel Production
Robert Botto, CHM, Designer
Nanocomposites for Hydrogen Storage
Boldizsar Janko, George Crabtree,
Wai-Kwong Kwok, MSD, Spin Polarized Nanostructures at Interfaces of Superconductors and Diluted
Magnetic Semiconductors: New Prospects for Tunable Quantum Dot Arrays
Jerry Moore, Michael Pellin, MSD,
Trace Measurement of DNA Adducts by VUV Soft Ionization
Edmond Berger, Carlos Wagner, HEP,
Extra Space-Time Dimensions
Liaohai Chen, BIO, Advanced Biological
Sensors Based on Fluorescent Conjugated Polymers
A Halloween party will be held Thursday, Oct. 24, from 4-8 p.m. in Argonne-East's Building 213 Cafeteria. (The party has been rescheduled from the date shown in the Oct. 21 Argonne News.)
The party will feature costume and door prizes. Beverages will be available for purchase. There will be a $3 cover charge.
All non-Argonne employees who wish to attend the party must obtain visitor passes at the Argonne Information Center before 4 p.m., and will be subject to search.
The party is sponsored by the Argonne Club and Sodexho Marriott.
More than 30 people from 20 countries spent the last two weeks at Argonne-East participating in a training course titled "Emerging Nuclear Security Issues for Decision Makers."
Subjects in the course included nuclear security and the nuclear fuel cycle; combating nuclear terrorism; increasing safeguards and security at nuclear facilities; emergency response planning; and nuclear security-related international cooperation programs.
"This course is the first of its kind offered by the Department of State and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)," said Harold Myron, director of Argonne's Division of Educational Programs. "Argonne has had enormous cooperation with the Nuclear Safeguards Section of the IAEA. The technical course directors from the IAEA and Argonne, William Meehan and Charles Roche (TD), have organized an excellent program for the participants."
Course presenters came from a number of institutions including Argonne; the U.S. Department of Energy; the University of Chicago; Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and the U.S. Customs Department.
The course was sponsored by the IAEA and the U.S. Department of State and was coordinated by Argonne's Division of Educational Programs.
Argonne is challenging high school students to design interactive exhibits that demonstrate the scientific principles of synchrotron X-ray science. The best designs will be used for displays at the lab's Advanced Photon Source (APS).
The APS is a world-class research facility that uses high speed electrons to produce ultra-bright X-ray pulses for research in many disciplines including materials science, chemistry, biology, physics, environmental science, planetary science, geology and nanoscience.
The APS and Argonne's Division of Educational Programs are sponsoring the competition for student teams from high schools in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. The students' assignment is to design and build a prototype educational exhibit related to the science behind the APS.
In the first round of the contest, teams will submit ideas and preliminary designs for exhibits. Up to 10 teams will advance to the second round. The second round teams will receive a $250 grant for parts to build a working prototype of their exhibit. In the final round, prizes will be awarded to up to three teams that have produced the best designs and prototypes. The winning exhibits will be constructed by Argonne and displayed in the APS atrium.
Winners will be announced April 18, 2003. An awards reception and a demonstration of the winning prototypes will be held May 16, 2003.
"We needed new exhibits, and we thought, why not have the people they are aimed at design them for us? The experience will be valuable for the students, exposing them to science, engineering and design, and we will end up with a much better product," said Murray Gibson, associate laboratory director for the APS.
"This contest will be an exciting way to engage future scientists and science teachers in a project which will improve their understanding of science and the way scientists work," said Argonne's Fred Hartline.
Argonne's Preventive Health and Wellness Program will present a seminar about menopause Wednesday, Oct. 23, at noon in Argonne-East's Bldg. 200 Auditorium.
About one out of eight women will develop a thyroid disorder in her lifetime, and many of the symptoms of thyroid disease overlap those of menopause. In the presentation "Thyroid Dysfunction vs. Normal Menopause," speaker Jamie Stalker, a doctor in Argonne's Medical Department, will help women decide whether to obtain thyroid screening. Stalker is board certified in internal medicine and received her medical doctorate from Rush University.
A representative from MetLife will visit Argonne-East Tuesday, Oct. 22, to meet with individual employees for insurance comparisons and quotes for the "METPAY" group automobile and homeowners insurance program.
MetLife insurance is a voluntary benefit available to regular Argonne employees and Argonne retirees. Participants enrolled in the program can insure their cars, homes and other personal property at group rates.
To schedule an appointment, call Craig Riddick at (630) 810-0346, ext. 143.
Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 27. Clocks should be reset one hour earlier.
Classic Lincolns, Chevys and Fords drew car-lovers to Argonne-East's fifth annual employee car show, held in the Building 360 parking lot during lunch time Sept. 25.
"It's interesting to see what others in the lab own, what their hobbies are," said Clarence Clark (ASD), one of the show's organizers. Clark owns an assortment of classic cars at various stages of restoration including two Model As and parts of another, one Model T, five Studebakers and a '67 Firebird convertible.
Clark plans the event each fall with fellow enthusiast Walter Czyz (IPNS), who owns a '57 Thunderbird and a '66 Mustang convertible. Czyz encourages owners of any special interest vehicle - not just classic cars - to participate. This year's show involved more than 35 participants with a variety of classic, modified and limited-production automobiles.
Carl A. Bebrich (DIS), retired September 20 with 15 years of service.
Michael A. Essling (BIO), retired September 30 with 44 years of service.
Ronald G. Ghilardi (PFS), retired September 30 with 13 years of service.
Richard Mattas (TD), retired September 30 with 28 years of service.
Robert A. Paddock (DIS), retired September 30 with 27 years of service.
Roselee Pausche (BIO), retired September 20 with 14 years of service.
Ankur Purohit (TD), retired September 30 with 27 years of service.
Audrey Salzbrunn (ASD), retired September 6 with 13 years of service.
Sandra L. Slade (MSD), retired September 30 with 32 years of service.
V. Svirtun (ASD), retired September 30 with 40 years of service.
Jerry R. Ward (RPS), retired September 30 with 34 years of service.
Thomas J. Yule (TD), retired September 20 with 34 years of service.