Hispanic engineering organization honors two Argonne researchers
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ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 27, 2007) – Two researchers from the U.S. Department of
Energy's Argonne National Laboratory won coveted 2007 achievement awards
from the Hispanic Engineer National
Achievement Award Corporation (HENAAC).
Juan Carlos Campuzano, an Argonne
Distinguished Fellow, was named a recipient
of an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and Monica C. Regalbuto, head
of Argonne's Process
Chemistry and Engineering Department, won a Professional
Achievement Award.
The HENAAC Awards, presented annually for the past 18 years, recognize some
of the nation's top engineers, scientists and technologists of Hispanic heritage.
The winners are selected, in part, based on their professional accomplishments
and potential as a role model for young people in the Hispanic community.
Campuzano, Regalbuto and other 2007 award winners will be honored at the 19th
annual HENAAC conference, to be held Oct. 11-13 in San Diego.
As an Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Campuzano holds the highest of all ranks
at the laboratory. The title is comparable in stature to an endowed chair at
a top-ranked university and recognizes exceptional contributions in a person's
field. Only two dozen Argonne employees currently hold the rank.
Campuzano, who works in the Synchrotron
Radiation Studies Group in the laboratory's
Materials Science Division, is credited with landmark advances in the field
of high temperature superconductivity.
"Dr. Campuzano's accomplishments in condensed matter physics span surface
science, correlated electron materials and angle resolved photoemission," said
George W. Crabtree, director of Argonne's Materials Science Division. "His
research in high-temperature superconductivity has laid many of the foundations
of our knowledge of this forefront field. He has built a world-renowned program
at Argonne integrating experiment and theory, trained and mentored an outstanding
group of young condensed matter scientists and dramatically expanded the reach
of photoemission as an experimental tool to probe correlated electron behavior
in solids."
Campuzano came to Argonne in 1987 after serving in several research positions
at university laboratories in the United Kingdom. During his tenure at Argonne,
he also served as a member of the physics faculty at the University
of Illinois at Chicago.
His widely cited work has won Campuzano numerous awards and honors, including
the University of Chicago Medal for Distinguished Performance at Argonne National
Laboratory and election as Fellow of the American
Physical Society. He has
received funding of more than $3 million in competitive grants from federal
agencies.
Campuzano earned a Ph.D. degree in physics, an M.Sc. degree in physics and
a B.S. degree in applied mathematics and physics, all from the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Additional information about Campuzano and his work is available at http://www.anl.gov/Science_and_Technology/Distinguished_Fellows/campuzano.html.
As head of the Process Chemistry and Engineering Department, Regalbuto leads
approximately 30 scientists, engineers and support staff in the development
of technologies for the recycling and safe disposal of spent nuclear fuel.
"Monica is at the forefront in conducting and directing research essential
to the nation's energy security," said Diane Graziano, acting director of Argonne's Chemical
Engineering Division. "Energy supply alternatives to fossil fuels,
including nuclear and renewables, will be required to meet the steeply growing
demand for energy while minimizing the consequences of carbon dioxide production
and global warming. The nuclear separations technologies being developed by
Monica and her team are providing solutions to the complex problems of spent
fuel and proliferation that are currently constraining the expansion of nuclear
energy."
Graziano called Regalbuto "a world class engineer, leader and role model."
Regalbuto joined Argonne in 1988. In 1996, she became a senior research engineer
at BP Amoco, where her responsibilities included developing new technologies
for cleaner fuels. She returned to Argonne in 2001 and has been at the laboratory
since.
Regalbuto is the author of more than 40 journal articles, reports and presentations.
She has been awarded four patents and has 15 patent applications pending. She
is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the American
Chemical Society, the American
Nuclear Society and the Society
of Women Engineers.
She was a founding member of the Hispanic/Latino Club at Argonne and is
active in the club's outreach efforts to elementary and secondary schools.
Regalbuto holds a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from the University
of Notre Dame. She also has an M.S. degree in chemical engineering from Notre
Dame and a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Instituto
Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico.
More information about the work being done by Regalbuto and her team at Argonne
on spent nuclear fuel can be found at http://www.cmt.anl.gov/Science_and_Technology/Process_Chemistry/UREX+.shtml.
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For more information, please
contact Steve McGregor (630/252-5580 or media@anl.gov)
at Argonne.
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