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June 09 Issue - Employee Monthly Magazine KudosThibault Cantat receives ParisTech Best Thesis AwardThibault Cantat earned the ParisTech Best Thesis Award for 2008. Cantat’s thesis, “A Joint Theoretical and Experimental Approach to New Carbene Ligands: Applications in Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis,” was chosen by a judges’ panel. The panel awarded a prize of 3,000 Euros (about $4,200) to three laureates whose research contributed to the progress of scientific knowledge, the understanding of problems in society, or the emergence of technological innovation. ParisTech, a consortium of 11 of the most prestigious French research institutes and universities in the vicinity of Paris, covers all the fields of science, engineering, and technology. Cantat, who studied chemistry at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and received his doctorate from the Ecole Polytechnique, joined the Lab as a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Condensed Matter and Thermal Physics (MPA-10) and Physics and Chemistry of Materials (T-1), where he uses experimental and theoretical approaches to study chemical behaviors of early actinides. Jaqueline Kiplinger of MPA-10, and Philip Hay and Enrique Batista, both of T-1, are his mentors. Juan Duque wins engineering awardJuan Duque, a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (C-PCS) group, was selected to receive the 2009 Ralph Budd Award for research in Engineering at Rice University. The award is given annually to the graduate student judged to have the best doctoral thesis in the School of Engineering for that year. Duque’s thesis is “Electrochemistry and Self- Assembly of Complex Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Nanostructures.” Steve Doorn of C-PCS was his LANL mentor for the thesis research. Barsoum joins LANSCE as sixth Wheatley ScholarMichel Barsoum, distinguished professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University, joined LANSCE’s Lujan Center as the sixth John Wheatley Scholar. Los Alamos established the Wheatley Scholar program in 1997, in honor of one of its illustrious researchers, John Wheatley. Barsoum is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and an Academician in the World Academy of Ceramics. He has more than 200 papers and 16 issued and pending patents. His textbook, Fundamentals of Ceramics, is in its second printing. Barsoum discovered and characterized the “MAX” phases in ceramics, a new class of machinable ternary carbides and nitrides with remarkable toughness and thermal properties. During his one-year Wheatley Scholar term, Barsoum will help develop programs in neutron-scattering instrumentation, particularly for advanced materials, composites, and ceramics. Laocharoensuk, Watkins to meet with Nobel laureatesLaboratory researchers Rawiwan Laocharoensuk and Erik Watkins will attend the 59th Meeting of Nobel Laureates (June 28 to July 3) in Lindau, Germany. These meetings give 500 of the world’s best young researchers the opportunity to interact with Nobel Laureates. Laocharoensuk, a Laboratory postdoc and Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, works in Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy and the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies. She holds a doctorate in chemistry from Arizona State University and a bachelor’s degree from Prince of Songkla University in Songkhla, Thailand. Watkins has made significant contributions to the surface reflectometer at Los Alamos Neutron Science Center. He is pursuing a doctorate in biophysics from the University of California, Davis and holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Gallegos wins UNM outstanding student awardLaboratory student Iris Gallegos of Program Management II received a 2009 Raza Excellence Outstanding Student Award from the University of New Mexico’s El Centro de la Raza. The award recognizes students who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to the Raza community both on and off campus and who have dedicated time and effort to helping and improving the lives of Hispanos and Latinos. She was honored at an awards ceremony in April at the University of New Mexico. Other Headlines
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