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Tuesday, April 02, 2002

First Laboratory Postdoctoral Distinguished Performance Awards announced

Jackie Kiplinger of Structural Inorganic Chemistry (C-SIC) and Eddy Timmermans of Atomic and Optical Theory (T-4) are the first individual winners of the Postdoctoral Distinguished Performance Awards, announced recently by William Press, deputy director for science and technology. Jennifer Hollingsworth and Alexandre Mikhailovski both of Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (C-PCS) garnered the small team award.

The Postdoctoral Distinguished Performance Award recognizes outstanding and unique contributions by Laboratory postdocs that result in a positive and significant impact on the Laboratory's programmatic or organizational efforts or status in the scientific community.

Kiplinger is recognized for her work in elucidating the nature of metal-ligand multiple bonds in actinide complexes. Timmermans is recognized for his work in super fluid behavior in fermi gasses.

The team of Hollingsworth and Mikhailovsk is recognized for its work in the area of synthetic chemistry of nanoscale semiconductor particles and work on optical characterization of those nanoparticles using spectroscopic methods, including ultrafast and near-field optical spectroscopies.

The call for nominations for the first Postdoctoral Distinguished Performance Awards, which include a certificate or plaque and a monetary prize, went out from Laboratory Director John Browne late last fall. All Laboratory postdocs were eligible, upon nomination by a Lab manager, supervisor, mentor or peer.

A committee of six technical staff members, chaired by David Forslund of the Advanced Computing Laboratory (CCS-1), reviewed the nominations and made recommendations to Browne who then made the final decisions.

An awards banquet is scheduled for April 23. All the winners also will have the opportunity to present their work during a colloquium later this spring. Check the Daily Newsbulletin for dates.

For more information about the Postdoctoral Distinguished Performance Awards, contact Mary Anne With, Institutional Oversight, Postdoctoral Program (STB-DSTBP), at 5-5306 or write to with@lanl.gov by electronic mail.

--Judy Goldie

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