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Science Matters , the MRL newsletter highlighting MRL education and research programs. Previous editions/issues of Science Matters can be found here.
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Science Matters , the MRL newsletter highlighting MRL education and research programs. Previous editions/issues of Science Matters can be found here.
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MRL Education Programs are pleased to announce the following graduate
students awards for 2008 for which each recipient will receive a certificate
of appreciation and a cash prize: The MRL Education Programs Service Award is
given to a graduate student who provides consistent support in multiple programs,
including participation as an undergraduate intern mentor, a volunteer in our
school programs and/or as a ScienceLine answerer. This year the
award is shared by Alan Kleiman (Chemical Engineering) and Nick Strandwitz
(Chemistry). The Excellence in Mentoring award is given to a graduate student
who provides undergraduate mentoring above and beyond the call of duty. We are
very pleased to present this award to Wei Tang (Chemical Engineering) and Aubrey Cano
(Marine Science) for their dedicated support of undergraduate research.
Finally, the ScienceLine Award is given to a student who provides consistent,
reliable and thoughtful answers to our young ScienceLine users. This year our
ScienceLine Award goes to Mark Wistey (Materials, Electrical and Computer Engineering).
Diversity is one of the
key initiatives within the MRL and one way that the MRL supports these goals
is through MRL Diversity Fellowships. These are designed to reflect and
reward graduate students who share this strong commitment to
diversity. The awardees of the 2008 MRL Diversity Fellowships are
(pictured left to right): Brent Melot (Materials - Seshadri),
Juliana Bernal-Ostos (Materials - Stucky), Andres Garcia (Chemistry & Biochemistry - Nguyen)
and Mananya Tantiwiwat (Physics - Nguyen).
MRL Education
Programs wishes to thank the following people (pictured at right)
for their outstanding contributions to promoting science education
in K-12 schools. From left to right first line: Professor Helen Hansma,
Biophysicist, Professor Frank Spera, Earth Science professor
(both recognized for their 10 year contributions to Scienceline),
Kimberly R. Kline, graduate student from the Earth Science Department, Andrew J.
Bonham, graduate student at BMSE with Professor Norbert Reich,
Anthony Karmis, graduate student from the Department of Physics, Claudia
Gutierrez-Mazzotti, ScienceLine Coordinator, and Sheila Morrissey,
graduate student from the Earth Science Department.
Three UCSB MRL
interns received awards for their undergraduate research at the national
SACNAS (Society for the Advancement of Chicano and Native American Scientists)
conference in Salt Lake City on October 9-12, 2008. Ricardo
Alamillo (Chemical Engineering, on the left in picture) was recognized
in the Engineering Division for research he completed at the University
of Chile as part of the MRL's Cooperative International Science and
Engineering Internships REU program, while Diego Herrera
(Biology, on right in picture) and Lourdes Velasquez (Biology, center in picture)
were recognized in the Opthamology and Vision and Physics and Astronomy
Divisions for their research projects in UCSB’s California Alliance for
Minority Participation (CAMP) internship program.