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Vinod Sikka received the Director's Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology at UT-Battelle's Awards Night on Nov. 16, 2007. He also received ORNL's Inventor of the Year Award. Sikka's work with nickel aluminides, infrared-based process heating and computationally designed stainless steels and cast irons has resulted in 41 patents and commercial products with sales in the billions of dollars. Honored with a Director's Award for Outstanding Team Accomplishment were participants in the international effort to sequence the poplar tree genome: Stan Wullschleger, Udaya Kaluri, Lee Gunter, Frank Larimer, Philip LoCascio, Tonming Yin, Gwo-Liang Chen, Ed Uberbacher and team leader Gerald Tuskan. The Director's Award for Laboratory Operations was bestowed on Ronald Crone for leadership in the High Flux Isotope Reactor's recent successes. Jeff Christian received the Director's Award for Community Service for his effective communication of building technologies research and development—most notably, zero-energy housing—to the public. ORNL Director Thom Mason, John Budai and Krzysztof Rykaczewski have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society. Saed Mirzadeh received the American Nuclear Society's 2007 Seaborg Medal Award, named for Glenn T. Seaborg, the Nobelprize winning nuclear chemist who co-discovered plutonium and many transuranium isotopes and chaired the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971. Ho Nyung Lee is one of eight Department of Energy scientists to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The PECASE award, one of the nation's top honors for young scientists, was presented Nov. 1, 2007, in a White House ceremony. Lee, an experimental physicist in ORNL's Materials Science and Technology Division, focuses on controlling interfaces in artificially layered complex oxides and on understanding collective phenomena arising from the atomic-scale coupling within complex transition-metal-oxide superlattices and across heterogeneous interfaces. Herb Mook, a leading ORNL neutron scientist, and Peter Cummings, a Vanderbilt University chemical engineering professor who directs the Nanomaterials Theory Institute of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at ORNL, have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Amit Goyal has received the "Pride of India" Gold Award, one of 24 natives of India to receive this prestigious award. Thirty-two ORNL researchers and technology transfer managers won six awards, including project of the year and three excellence in technology transfer awards, from the Southeast Federal Laboratory Consortium. Winning inventions were a new superconducting wire, a method for finding defects in semiconductors, a device that uses acoustics to detect chemical residue from a distance, high-temperature electronics for use in oil drilling and a high-power search engine. Frank Kornegay was honored by the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department of Purdue University as a distinguished alumnus.
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