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Award: The NMT-9 team responsible for supplying heat sources to the Galileo mission was recently awarded the National Space Club's Nelson P. Jackson Aerospace Award for outstanding contribution to planetary exploration. Team members are Roy Zocher, Tim George, Gary Rinehart, Theresa Cull, and Art Herrera.

Pollution Prevention Award: Bob Grundemann and Susan Ramsey of Power Source Technology (NMT-9) and Scott Ferrara of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory won a Pollution Prevention Award this year for improvements they made to the plutonium residue solidification process.

New Division Review Committee member: Dr. William (Bill) F. Weston, (Boeing Company, Rocketdyne Division), has agreed to serve as a member of the Division Review Committee. The next review is planned for May 8­11, 2001. The committee will accomplish the work of the review that was scheduled for May 2000 but was postponed as a result of the Cerro Grande fire. Weston joins Dr. Richard A. Bartsch (Texas Tech University), Dr. Rohinton K. Bhada, Dr. Darleane C. Hoffman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Dr. Todd R. LaPorte (University of California, Berkeley), Dr. W. Lamar Miller (University of Florida, Consultant), Dr. Anthony (Tony) D. Rollet (Carnegie Mellon University), Dr. Ned A. Wogman (Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Consultant), and Dr. Susan Wood (Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Committee Chair).

New SLC Members: Eleven NMT scientists and engineers were nominated for this year's selection of the Science Leadership Council in NMT, and five have been selected. SLC members are all accomplished senior scientists within NMT who have demonstrated significant scientific and technical achievements and hold peer recognition, external reputation, and visibility in their respective scientific and technical fields. All non-managers, the SLC is charged with providing leadership in directing the division's efforts in scientific and technical research. The newly selected members are Gary Eller, Laura Worl, Robert Margevicius, Ed Garcia, and John Park.

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