The Commencement Engineering Reception

will be held Monday, May 21, in the Becton Plaza from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm. Come to bid farewell to all our graduates and to rejoice together with their parents and friends.

 

Award to undergrad AIChE co-president: 

Jasqueline Pena '01ChE, co-president of the Yale AIChE student chapter, has been awarded the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Award for Academic Excellence. After graduation, Ms. Pena will be employed as a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California.

 

Prof. Reed's advisee wins again and yet again: 

The project on "Conductance Quantization in Au Nanocontacts" that Mariangela Lisanti, a high school student, developed last summer and fall at Yale under the guidance of Prof. Mark Reed, EE, become the winner of the Top First Place Winner and received the Best of Category Award in physics at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. She will receive $5,000, a mobile computer with the Intel Pentium III processor, and $1,000 for her high school in Westport, CT. Her project on the use of single atoms or molecules to fabricate electronic devices also made her one of two winners of the Glenn T. Seaborg Nobel Prize Visit Award which consists of a trip to the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm in December. Earlier this year, her project won Ms. Lisanti a $100,000 Siemens Westinghouse Science & Technology Competition Scholarship and a $100,000 Intel Science Talent Search Award.

 

Minors in Yale labs over the summer: 

The Yale Office of Environmental Health and Safety, OEHS, reminds that, because of safety and legal concerns, no persons under 16 may enter any Yale research laboratory during the summer unless they are participating in an organized education program sponsored by their school or municipality and approved by the head of the Yale department in which the program will take place, by OEHS, and by the Office of New Haven Affairs. The same applies to 16-18 year-olds, although the latter may be in Yale labs if they are part of a mentoring relationship involving a faculty member or researcher. However, the 16-18 year-olds must complete required safety training and adhere to OEHS restrictions. Faculty members should get in touch with Adrian Goodwin, 785-3550, prior to the arrival for summer research of all persons under 18.

 

Repealed by Congress but not at Yale: 

The Yale Office of Environmental Health and Safety will continue to observe the OSHA Ergonomic Standard (developed over 10 years, approved by the past administration, and repealed by the current one). "Any means for reducing the frequency and severity of injuries, and the associated lost time, can only be beneficial to the departments and to the Institution," writes OEHS director Elan Gandsman in the current issue of Yale's Safety Bulletin.

 

Former EE faculty member led a full life: 

Herbert J. Reich who taught electrical engineering at Yale from 1946 to 1972 passed away April 16 in Haverhill, MA, at the age of 100. The late Prof. Reich had done pioneering research in radio and had directed research on vacuum tubes and electronic devices. He had published 60 technical papers in major journals and had been an editor of technical books for McGraw-Hill Book Co. and Van Nostrand Publishing Co. In 2000, he received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He had been an airplane pilot, had studied music, and had been a tenor soloist with choirs and madrigal groups. Twenty years ago he had organized the Groveland Madrigal Singers and continued as its host until his death. Until three years ago, the late Prof. Reich narrated slide shows of mountain scenery at local nursing homes and elderly residential establishments.

 

Updating Yale ID cards: 

Updating stickers will become available in June at the Business Office.

 

Until we meet again: 

With this issue the Engineering Bulletin ceases publication until the fall. Have a wonderful summer. :)

* Our Prize Winners

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