Four Laboratory technical staff members are being honored for outstanding research and leadership at the 2005 Fellows Prize colloquium and celebration on Tuesday in the Physics Building Auditorium at Technical Area 3.
Neil Harrison of Los Alamos' High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MST-NHMFL) and Robert Roussel-Dupré of Atmospheric, Climate and Environmental Dynamics (EES-2) received the 2005 Fellows' Prize for Outstanding Research. Rick Luce of the Research Library (STB-RL) and Bob Little of Material Science (X-7) received the 2005 Fellows' Prize for Leadership.
The colloquium is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m., and is open to all Lab personnel. Linton Brooks, National Nuclear Security Administration administrator, is scheduled to present certificates and $3,000 checks to the recipients.
Harrison and Roussel-Dupré will each give a 15-minute presentation summarizing their prize-winning research.
The Fellows' Prize for Research honors individuals for outstanding research performed at the Lab, published within the past 10 years, and exerting a significant disciplinary or programmatic impact. The Fellows' Prize is open to all full-time staff members; however, fellows and postdoctoral researchers are ineligible for consideration.
The Fellows' Prize for Leadership commends individuals exhibiting outstanding scientific and engineering leadership. The prize is open to any currently employed Lab technician, technical staff member or manager, with the exception of fellows.
"The awards are an important way of acknowledging some of the truly spectacular scientific research and scientific leadership," said Rusty Gray of Structure/Property Relations (MST-8), coordinator of the Fellows' Prize committee.
Laboratory employees nominate staff members for the Fellows' Prize. A committee of Laboratory Fellows reviews the nominations and recommends its selection to the director. This year, the committee received nine nominations for the Fellows' Prize for Research and 15 nominations for the Fellows' Prize for Leadership.
For more information, see the week of Dec. 5, 2005 Los Alamos NewsLetter (Adobe Acrobat Reader required). Also, see the all-employee memo from Laboratory Director Bob Kuckuck (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
