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Lab's diversity director receives award for educational leadership
Marion Timm, the Laboratory's Diversity (DV) Office director, has received the Hilda Davis Award for educational leadership from the National Association for Women in Education.
Timm, who joined the Lab last year, will be recognized at an awards luncheon during the organization's Advancing Women in Higher Education national conference in Baltimore on March 6.
"I'm honored and privileged, and I'm appreciative of the fact that people have taken notice of my 25 years in higher education," Timm said.
Timm came to Los Alamos from the University of California, Irvine, where she was assistant executive vice chancellor. She is a nationally recognized diversity expert. Timm ran UC, Irvine's Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity and held similar jobs at the University of Vermont, the state University of New York at Stony Brook and the University of New Mexico.
The National Association for Women in Education is a professional association that addresses issues in higher education, with particular attention to the interests, scholarship and broad advancement of women educators and students.
The award is named after 92-year-old educator and organizational leader Hilda Andrea Davis.
A 1925 Howard University graduate, Davis was an English and Latin school teacher who later earned advanced degrees in arts and human development, became a dean of women and associate professor of English at Talladega College in Alabama, and was president of both the Association of Deans of Women and the National Association of College Women.
--Steve Sandoval
Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation director named
Susan Herrera has been named executive director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation.
The Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation (see April 18, 1997, Newsbulletin) is an independent, philanthropic corporation organized by the Laboratory and the University of California last year to foster and support educational and outreach opportunities in Northern New Mexico.
Herrera, former director of the Northern New Mexico Community College Foundation, has more than 30 years of nonprofit management experience, most notably in fundraising and grant writing. During the past eight years, she has been actively involved with the Northern New Mexico nonprofit community. Herrera, who has extensive government and legislative experience, also served as director of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
"I'm honored to have been chosen for this position, and I'm looking forward to working with nonprofit and educational institutions throughout Northern New Mexico to implement the ambitious giving goals of the foundation," said Herrera.
"We are extremely happy that Susan has agreed to accept this position," said Tom Garcia, acting deputy director for business administration and outreach at the Lab and president of the foundation. "The foundation is strategically positioned to make a major impact on Northern New Mexico educational and community outreach projects this year."
Fellows Prize recipient presents colloquium for standing-room only crowd
PHOTO: Ricardo Schwarz, left, of Structure/Property Relations (MST-8) chats with 1997 Fellows Prize recipient Richard Hughes of Neutron Science and Technology (P-23) shortly after the end of Thursday's Fellows Prize Colloquium in the Materials Science Laboratory Auditorium. Hughes detailed his work in quantum information physics, for which he won the prize, before a standing room-only crowd. Director John Browne and Science and Technology Base (STB) Programs Director Al Sattelberger presented Hughes with a certificate and check for $3,000 during the colloquium. The Fellows Prize is the highest technical honor bestowed to individuals at the Laboratory and is given for outstanding research performed over the past 10 years that has had a significant impact in that researcher's discipline or program. Hughes became the 21st person to receive the prestigious prize in the program's 10-year history. Photo by Fred Rick
'Face to Face: A Look at Modern Ceramics'
A Director's Colloquium on the field of modern ceramics will be held at 1:10 p.m. Tuesday in the Physics Building Auditorium.
Barry Carter, the Bernd T. Matthais Scholar in the Laboratory's Center for Materials Science (CMS), will describe the interface of art and science as it comes into play in the study of ceramic materials.
"Ceramics began as a combination of art and science over 5,000 years ago and continues as such today. Sometimes the art uses science; often the science becomes an art," Carter said. "In my talk, I will illustrate how microscopy is helping us to understand better how the structure of interfaces in modern ceramics materials influences the morphology, properties and behavior of those interfaces in technological applications. In doing so, I hope to demonstrate the art of this science. The talk will include something on optics and perhaps a little on optical illusion. I'll look at the interface of materials and the material of interfaces.
"Interfaces are not only ubiquitous, but in many fields of research and life, interfaces are 'where it all happens.' Change, particularly dramatic change, usually occurs at interfaces," Carter said.
The Bernd T. Matthias Visiting Scholar position grew out of a program former Laboratory Director Don Kerr instituted in 1984 to support outstanding scientists to come and interact with Laboratory researchers. Candidates for the position are selected by staff at the Center for Materials Science and approved by the Laboratory director.
Carter is a professor of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Minnesota.
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