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October 09 Issue - Employee Monthly Magazine KudosPadilla, Bowles receive Who’s Who in Technology awardTom Bowles of Science, Technology, and Engineering and Belinda Padilla of Technology Transfer (TT) Division received the New Mexico Business Weekly Who’s Who in Technology Award. The award recognizes and spotlights the accomplishments of 26 people who are keeping the state on the cutting edge of technological advances. Honorees are selected from both the public and private sector and represent different industries and key roles within technology. Padilla is a program manager in TT Division and leads a team responsible for the Laboratory’s entrepreneurial programs and efforts to stimulate new regional business development based on technology and expertise. Bowles is currently on leave from the Laboratory as science advisor to Governor Bill Richardson. He was elected an American Physical Society Fellow in 1993, a Los Alamos Fellow in 1994, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2006. Bowles was the chief science officer at the Lab from 2004 to 2006. He has served on a number of Laboratory, national, and international committees, was a recipient of a Laboratory Distinguished Performance Award, and received the Markov Prize from the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Student Symposium winners namedFour students and mentors were recognized as distinguished performers at the 2009 Student Symposium. Students Christina Hanson of Applied Modern Physics, Cynthia R. Rivera of Industrial Hygiene and Safety, Tanya Vandenbusch of Theory, Simulation, and Computation, and Michael Jablin of the Lujan Center at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center received Distinguished Performance awards. David R. Montoya of High Performance Computer Systems, David Poston of International and Nuclear Systems Engineering, Steve Valone of Structure and Property Relations, and Harshini Mukundan of Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy were recognized as Distinguished Mentors. Several other students were recognized at the symposium. To read the complete list of Student Symposium winners go online to http://www.lanl.gov/education/symposium/. Proffen elected to NSSA committeeThomas Proffen of the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center was elected communicating secretary for the Neutron Scattering Society of America, a position on its Executive Committee. The Society, which is active in neutron user technical meetings and education and training, is an organization of persons who have an interest in neutron scattering research in a wide spectrum of disciplines. Proffen is the neutron powder diffractometer instrument scientist at the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center. He received his doctorate in crystallography from the University of Munich. LANSCE Director’s Excellence Award PresentedSven Vogel of the Lujan Center at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center received the 2009 LANSCE Director’s Excellence Award for his achievements in publishing papers with scientists from around the world on phase transformations in metals, alloys, and geomaterials. Among other projects, in studies led by H.R. Wenk of the University of California, Berkeley, Vogel investigated the texture memory effect in metals and rocks. Former LANSCE Deputy Director Roger Pynn established the LANSCE Director’s Award in 1999, to recognize the scientific excellence and leadership of a Laboratory staff member strongly involved with LANSCE, either through his or her own research program, collaborations with LANSCE users, or programmatic development of the scientific program at LANSCE. Whicker honored by Air Monitoring Users GroupJeff Whicker of Environmental Data and Analysis received the Mark D. Hoover/George J. Newton award for outstanding and continuing contributions to the technology of radioactive aerosol measurements from the national Air Monitoring Users Group. Whicker is a founding member of the group, which provides air-monitoring practitioners with a forum to exchange relevant information, discuss mutual issues and problems, and develop sound technical and unified consensus strategies for air-monitoring practices and regulatory compliance. Other Headlines
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