W.E. Spicer Young Investigator Award

Outstanding Student Poster Awards were presented to:

• Cori Demmelmaier, University of California Santa Barbara - XAS Investigation of the Precursor to the Phillips Catalyst, (Materials Science Poster 22)
• Wei-Sheng Lee, Stanford University - Is One Mode Enough? The Existence of Multiple Bosonic Modes Coupling in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 Poster (Materials Science Poster 17)
• Christopher Lentini, Chapman University - Sorption and Structural Incorporation of Hg(II)and Zn(II) onto Nanoscale Iron Oxyhydroxides (Environmental Science Poster 8)
• Alexandra Zidovska, University of California Santa Barbara - Two-Dimensional Columnar Phase of Cationic Liposome-DNA Complexes for Gene Delivery: Hexagonally Ordered Cylindrical Micelles Embedded within a DNA Honeycomb Lattice Poster (Bio/Life Sciences Poster 11)

William E. Spicer

Recipients of the William E. Spicer Award: Adrian Cavalieri (Max Planck) and David Fritz (SSRL) 2006 Stéphane Richard (Salk Institute) 2005 N. Peter Armitage (Johns Hopkins University) 2004

William E. Spicer (1929-2004) was an esteemed member of the international scientific community as a teacher and researcher in electrical engineering, applied physics and materials science. Bill spent the past 40 years as a professor at Stanford where he pioneered the technique of ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy and its subsequent expansion into the use of synchrotron radiation. In 1972, Bill together with Sebastian Doniach founded the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Project which evolved into today's SSRL. He was a prolific author with over 700 works and the recipient of many honors and awards including the Lifetime Mentor Award by the AAAS in 2000, reflecting his tireless effort on the behalf of under-represented minorities and women. Though retired for some years, Bill continued to actively advise students at SSRL up until his death.

In honor of his many contributions, professional and personal, to our community, SSRL and the SSRL Users' Organization established the W.E. Spicer Young Investigator Award in 2004. The Spicer Award will be presented at the annual SSRL users' meeting to a new investigator who has made important technical or scientific contributions that benefit from or are beneficial to SSRL or to the lightsource community overall. The award, which is open to senior graduate students and those within seven years of entry into their professional scientific field at the time of nomination, will consist of a certificate and $1,000 (awardee names are added to a plaque displayed in the SSRL User Research Administration Office).

All SSRL users and staff are eligible for this award (joint or group awards are not encouraged).  Nomination packages should include a letter of nomination as well as the candidate's curriculm vitae and publications; supporting letters are encouraged. Nomination packages should summarize the technical or scientific contributions of the candidate and need to be received by the August 1, 2006 deadline to be considered. Nominations can be forwarded to Cathy Knotts via e-mail, regular mail or fax:

Cathy Knotts
Manager, User Research Administration
SSRL SLAC
2575 Sand Hill Road, MS 99
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Tel. 650-926-3191
Fax. 650-926-3600

Nominations received by the August 1, 2006 deadline will be reviewed by the selection committee. The Award will be presented at the Users' Meeting Dinner on Thursday, October 12, 2006. The awardee will be asked to give a presentation on his/her research during the Young Investigators' Session on Friday, October 13, 2006.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to forward your nomination and for your continuing support of the SSRL Users' Organization.

NOMINATIONS DUE BEFORE AUGUST 1st.