Before coming to ORNL Barbara gained job experience working as an assistant in a high school library; as an assistant at the Michigan State University Archives; as a Job Placement Counselor for Manpower, Inc; as the head librarian of a hospital library, University of Cincinnati Medical Center Libraries; as the head librarian and media specialist and placement director of Bowling Green Business College in Bowling Green, Kentucky; and as a customer and sales representative for Information Handling Services, Inc. for the state of Tennessee. Barbara has also gained special avocational experience and training in career development, having been specially selected to attend the Career/Life Training Seminar taught by Richard Nelson Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute?, the most noted reference resource in the career planning field. She has also had special training in crisis counseling and mediation.

Barbara joined ORNL in 1978 as a technical editor and writer for the Metals and Ceramics Division. In 1980 she was appointed the Affirmative Action Coordinator for ORNL and in 1982 became the Staffing Manager for ORNL, coordinating all hourly and nonexempt hiring and all internal staffing issues, including management of the Foreign National Office. In 1987, she was asked to take over the libraries for Energy Systems and in 1989 became the Director of the Information Services Division. In 1993 she became the Director of Central Information Services organization. In 1994 she was appointed the Ethics Director for both Energy Systems and ORNL. In 1996 she was asked to head the new Information Management Section for the Computing, Information, and Networking Division.

Barbara has a special interest in leadership development, having taught courses in Leadership, Ethics, Career Planning, Supervisory Training, AA/EEO, Interviewing, Customer Service, and Conducting Performance Reviews over the years. She has been actively involved in development of the Leadership ORNL program and in the Leadership Action Consortium. She has received the Division's "SPIRIT" Award and an ORNL Leadership Award at Awards Night. She completed the Executive Development Program at the University of California in Berkeley in October 1999.

Barbara is a member of the American Society for Information Science, the National Management Association (Board Member), and the Oak Ridge Rotary Club (Membership Development Committee). Barbara also participates in community activities and several church activities. When she has time she enjoys running, reading, traveling, and cooking. Her husband is a full professor of journalism at the University of Tennessee and her son is a technical writer for Oracle Co. in San Jose, California.

Up until recently, Faye Brewer was a P&E Maintenance Program Manager responsible for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling expenditures to maintain buildings, roads, and grounds at ORNL facilities located at Y-12. She is currently the Work Center Manager, Reservation and Support Services Department. In this position, Faye is responsible for lab-wide support services, including waste/salvage pickup, grounds/fence maintenance, furniture moves and salvage, forestry management, insulator support, and carpentry/utility mechanic support.

Faye received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Western Michigan University and an MBA from Bristol University. In 1994, she received the Certified Manager designation. Faye is a member and current chairperson of the ORNL Committee for Women and a member of the LMER Chapter of the National Management Association (NMA).

Lisa K. Brown is the Associate Director of Procurement for ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) Project. The SNS is a collaborative project involving six Department of Energy facilities in the design and construction of what will be the most powerful spallation source in the world for neutron scattering research and development. Lisa is responsible for guidance and direction of day-to-day procurement operations for the SNS Project Office as well as the coordination and oversight of activities with the Project's Partner Laboratories [Argonne (Illinois); Brookhaven (New York); Lawrence Berkeley (California); Los Alamos (New Mexico); and Thomas Jefferson (Virginia)]. Prior to this assignment, Lisa served in several different managerial positions in the Lockheed Martin Energy Systems central procurement organization (servicing K-25, ORNL, and Y-12) supervising both service and commodity buyers in a wide-array of work assignments. Lisa gained first-hand procurement experience as she began her Procurement career in an entry-level buying position and progressed to a subcontract administrator before entering Procurement management. Prior to joining the Procurement organization, Lisa served as a Finance Officer in the Finance Division of the Y-12 Plant for various operating and production divisions. Lisa's employment with the Company began in 1984 in the Company's Central Engineering Organization.

Lisa, along with the Evaluation Team that she led, was selected as a recipient of an "Operations and Support Award" at the annual Lockheed Martin Awards Night 1999 for the successful planning, solicitation, selection and award of the architect engineer/construction management subcontract for the SNS Project. This contract acquired the lead contractor to oversee design and construction activities for SNS for the life of the Project. Lisa is a graduate of the "ORNL Leadership" Program and is a member of the ORNL Leadership Action Consortium.

Lisa has a Bachelor of Science Degree from the College of Business of The University of Tennessee (UT). Academically, Lisa ranked as the top graduate in her graduating class in the College of Business. Lisa is a member of the East Tennessee Chapter of the National Contract Management Association. She is currently serving on the planning committee for the Business Opportunity Conference, sponsored by the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce, to be held in August 2000.

Lisa is an active member of First Baptist Church, Oliver Springs, where she serves on the Personnel Committee and is an assistant Sunday School teacher in the Children's Department. Lisa resides in Oliver Springs with her husband, Larry, and their daughter, Krysta. An East Tennessee native, Lisa's blood truly runs "BIG ORANGE" (as she is an avid UT fan).

Marilyn Brown is the Deputy Director of ORNL's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program. During her 15 years at ORNL, she has researched the design and impacts of policies and programs aimed at accelerating the development and deployment of sustainable energy technologies. Prior to coming to ORNL in 1984, Dr. Brown was a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to teaching graduate and undergraduate seminars on technological change, resource geography, and statistical analysis and modeling, she received two NSF grants and funding from other sources to support her research on the diffusion of energy innovations. She has a Ph.D. in geography from the Ohio State University where she was a University Fellow, a Masters Degree in resource planning from the University of Massachusetts, and a BA in political science (with a minor in mathematics) from Rutgers University. She has authored more than 140 publications and has received awards for her research from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, the Lockheed Martin Corporation, the Association of American Geographers, the Technology Transfer Society, and the Association of Women in Science. Dr. Brown sits on the boards of several energy and environmental organizations, including the Alliance to Save Energy and EPA's Board of Scientific Counselors. She has served on advisory committees to NSF, EPA, LBNL, the University of Tennessee, and the Iowa Energy Center. She is currently on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Technology Transfer and Applied Geographic Studies. She has recently been co-leader of the influential report "Scenarios of U.S. Carbon Emissions."

Dr. Virginia H. Dale is a senior scientist in the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where she has been a staff member since 1984. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee. She received her B.A. (1974) and M.S. (1975) in mathematics from the University of Tennessee. She obtained her Ph.D. (1980) in mathematical ecology from the University of Washington. Her primary research interests are in environmental decision making, forest succession, land-use change, landscape ecology, and ecological modeling. She has worked on developing tools for land management, vegetation recovery following the eruption of Mount St. Helens; forest development subsequent to disturbances; effects of air pollution and climate change on forests; tropical deforestation in southeast Asia and the Brazilian Amazon; and integrating socioeconomic and ecological models of land-use change. She has published over 120 scientific articles and 2 books Tools to Aid Environmental Decision Making (with M.E. English) and Effects of Land-Use Change on Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations. She currently is on the National Academy of Sciences Ecosystems Panel and the editorial board for three journalsEcosystems, Landscape Ecology, and Ecological Economics. She was a member of the "Committee of Scientists" appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture and of the Ecosystems Panel of the National Science Foundation. She has served on the Environmental Protection Agency's Scientific Advisory Board and on the Governing Board of the Ecological Society of America. She also was a member of the Department of Defense's Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program's Ecosystem Management Project.

Kowetha Davidson, Life Sciences Division -- Kowetha Davidson is a Texas native, the obtained her undergraduate degree from Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas and her Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville after beginning her graduate school career at the University of Colorado. She has been employed at ORNL for 24 years. She started her employment in the former Biology Division where she conducted research in radiation and chemical carcinogenesis. Her current work involves chemical-specific risk assessment and toxicity evaluations.

Dr. Davidson is also Education Coordinator for the Life Sciences Division, where she coordinates all levels of educational activities for the division from high school to postdoctoral appointments and college/university faculty participation. Dr. Davidson is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology, Inc., a member of the Society of Toxicology, a member of the ORNL/ORAU Institutional Review Board, and a member of the 1999 Lockheed Martin Corporate Gifts and Grants Committee. She is a member of the NAACP, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Joyful Reconcilers, a church-based interracial women's group dedicated to racial reconciliation, and Oak Valley Baptist Church.

Amy Dindal received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Penn State University in 1992. Over the last eight years, she has been in the Sampling and Analysis Group of the Chemical and Analytical Sciences Division, working in the general area of characterization and validation of air sampling systems. She has also worked extensively on development and deployment of field analytical systems. Current work involves serving as ORNL's Technical Lead for the Site Characterization and Monitoring Technologies Pilot of EPA's Environmental Technology Verification Program.

Amy and her husband Jamie have a 13-month old son named Carson and 4-year old yellow lab named Norman. The family enjoys hiking and camping together.

Originally from Ohio, Jeanne Dole is a Tennesseean by choice. She is sure that her twenty-four years of battling red clay qualify her for native status.

Jeanne is the group leader for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Publishing Services. She has 16 years experience in writing, editing, publishing, and managing technical publications organizations. Jeanne is an Associate Fellow in the Society for Technical Communication. She holds a B. A. in English from Moravian College and an M. A. from Virginia Tech. She became a Certified Manager through the Institute of Certified Managers in 1995. Jeanne and her husband, Les, have two grown children—one a computer scientist and one a costume designer.

Lynn Duncan received her BS and MBA from Florida State University. She has worked as a high school home economics teacher, a junior college instructor, and a systems analyst for the Florida Department of Highway Safety. She came to Oak Ridge mid-career and joined Union Carbide-Nuclear Division in February 1979 in what was then the Computer Science Organization at K-25. For the next ~14 years she worked in various roles as a programmer/analyst, first supporting manufacturing applications at Y-12 and then conducting database R&D projects within the Energy Division and DSRD. She held positions of increasing responsibility and authority, progressing from team leader to group leader to department head. During this time period she was active in the Digital Equipment Corporation User Group (DECUS) and the South East Area Local User Group (SEALUG), serving once as SEALUG president, and provided numerous presentations and training sessions at national DECUS meetings. In 1992, she was one of three finalists and a corporate honoree in the Science & Technology category of the YWCA Tribute to Women.

In 1993, Lynn was selected as the Personnel Management Improvement Committee coordinator and soon thereafter also became the Values Coordinator for Energy Systems and Energy Group, which at the time included ORNL, K-25, Y-12, Paducah, Portsmouth and Pinellas. At the conclusion of that special assignment, Lynn returned to the Lab and joined the Chemical Technical Division. She spent 1997 and 1998 on another special assignment as the Human Resources Functional Leader for the Delta Project (SAP) and was part of the small team that brought phase I of SAP/HR on-line. She was also on the HR Reengineering Steering Committee and a part of the Design Team that generated the basis for what has developed into PADS. Back in CTD again, Lynn leads the R&D Services Section with responsibility for business and administrative support functions including finance, human resources, safety, training, and quality. She currently serves on the ORNL Values committee, the ORNL Reengineering Steering Committee, and the Human Performance Improvement Implementation Team. She was recently certified by Performance Improvement International to teach "Human Error Reduction from an Individual Contributor Perspective."

Throughout her career Lynn has "made the rounds", working two times each at all three Oak Ridge sites and twice at two local off-site locations. She has been on weekly and monthly payroll, and has performed as an individual contributor, technical leader, supervisor, and manager. She has been a researcher struggling to balance technical challenges, pending milestones and limited funding; and at other times has been part of the overhead burden. She's witnessed the changes from UCCND to Martin Marietta to Lockheed Martin, and now to UT-Battelle. Based on this breadth of experience, and having seen a lot of change, Lynn still contends that "ORNL is the best place to work."

Away from the Lab, Lynn operates a catering business, with plans for opening a bed & breakfast after retirement. She resides in Oak Ridge with her husband and teenage son.

Linda Edwards has been a member of the Energy Division since joining ORNL in 1986. She started as a group leader secretary and now is administrative secretary to one of the division's resource managers. She recently received an Energy Division nonexempt award for Exceptional Contribution in Administrative Support for her work on the Energy Division internal web site. Linda has an A.S. in Secretarial Science from Roane State Community College (1981). She is married and has two daughters, Michelle (age 7 years) and Shelley (age 2 years).

Charmaine Foltz - Life Science Division. Charmaine attended veterinary school at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, graduating in 1986. She spent 3 years in practice in both Wyoming and Colorado prior to entering a post-doctoral fellowship program at Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland. During her post-doc she was trained in the veterinary specialty field of laboratory animal medicine, becoming a board certified Laboratory Animal Veterinarian in 1993. She has worked at both Louisiana State University Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a clinical veterinarian and am currently the Head for Life Sciences Laboratory Animal Resources Section.

Barbara J. Frame is a development staff member in the Composites Materials Technology Group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After earning her degrees from the State University College in Oneonta, N. Y. (B.S. in Nuclear Engineering) and the State University in Buffalo, N.Y. (B.A. in Chemistry), she joined Lockheed Martin in 1980 as a materials engineer working on the characterization and development of composites and other materials for the Advanced Gas Centrifuge Program. Since 1985, Barbara has worked in composite materials and process development areas as a hands-on oriented project manager and development engineer. She has directed numerous composite materials characterization, process development and prototype fabrication activities associated with flywheels, pressure vessels, thick composites, and other high performance composite hardware. She has also performed or contributed to the failure analyses of composite structures. Related experience includes test development, adhesive bonding, polymer coatings, resin formulation, laminate design and tooling. Barbara has won a Corporate award for technical achievement in 1988 for her role as project manager for the design and construction of a composite pressure hull for use in the Navy Advanced Unmanned Search System (AUSS) vehicle, and again in 1992 as a part of the team responsible for the execution of the Seawolf Propulsor Program. She was also selected as a YWCA Tribute to Women finalist for the Science and Technology Category in 1994 and 1997. Barbara has recently been heavily involved in programs to develop high performance wet-filament wound composites using cyanate ester resins and the application of electron-beam curing technology to the manufacture of thick composites for flywheel applications.

Fay Frederick is the manager of the Compliance Resource Group in the ORNL Chemical Technology Division. In that role, she is responsible for the Self-Assessment Program; the Corrective Actions Program; and the majority of ORNL's Environmental, Safety, and Health Compliance Training.

Before coming to ORNL, Fay worked as a Fire Prevention Specialist in the Safety Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. At ORNL, before assuming her current duties, she served as a technical trainer in the Office of Environmental and Health Protection; as training manager for the Waste Management and Remedial Actions Division; and as manager of the Compliance, Assessments, and Training Section for the Waste Management Operations Division.

Fay has more than 12 years of experience in compliance, Conduct of Operations, configuration management, self-assessment, and training and has managed and administered several programs and projects. She is the author of numerous publications relating to her areas of expertise. She has directed assessments and training programs for the three U.S. Department of Energy sites and the eleven operating units in Oak Ridge, both for Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation and for Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc. She has ensured that these organizations are compliant with all DOE Orders as well as with all federal, state, and local laws and regulations. She has also assisted with ORNL Community Day, Hazardous Materials Pickup Day, and the EnvironMENTAL Fair, activities that reach out to the local community.

Fay has been recognized by her management, auditors, and peers for developing, implementing, and documenting exceptional compliance, assessment, and training programs as well as for her talent for reducing cost. She has recently been inducted into the Who's Who Environmental Registry for her contributions to environmental and training management. She has received numerous awards, the latest of which being a Columbus Initiative Award for cost savings and an Energy Systems Awards Night Award for Operations and Support.

A long time resident of Tennessee, Fay Frederick grew up in Claxton. She attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, from which she received a B.S. degree in Industrial Education and completed graduate studies in safety education and service. She currently resides in Farragut with her husband Alan, who works in the Metals and Ceramics Division. She is the mother of two sons, Brian and Bradley. She is active in The Environmental Business Association, The National Environmental Training Association, The Training Resources and Data Exchange, and the American Society of Training and Development.

Eva Freer is a Development Staff member of the Real Time Systems Group in the Instrumentation and Controls Division. She received her Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1990. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Memphis State University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering.

Her recent experience includes acting as the technical leader for the 10 member team who developed the FBI's Electronic Fingerprint Image Print Server (EFIPS) system. This system provides electronic transmission from state or federal agencies via secure network and printing of fingerprint cards for criminal identification and background checks. Prior to this, she was principal investigator for development of the Beamformer and Signal Processing System (BSPS) of the U.S. Navy's Acoustic Measurement Facilities Improvement Program (AMFIP). This is a $26 million dollar system developed over 7 years which continuously processes data from > 2,000 underwater acoustic sensors (hydrophones) at a continuous aggregate data rate of 165 megabytes per second.

In 1998 she received the Distinguished Technology Achievement Award given by the Association for Women in Science. She was the co-recipient of an American Museum of Science and Energy Technology in Tennessee Award in 1997 for her contributions to the AMFIP effort.

Patti Garland is a chemical engineer and program manager in the Buildings Technology Center in the Energy Division. She works on heating, ventilating, and air conditioning technologies to improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions relative to conventional technologies. Patti has made significant technological contributions to her field on a national and international level and is the U. S. representative on internaitonal technical councils and working groups. Patti serves as a powerful role model for women and has spent countless hours of volunteer service in our schools and community. Her many elected offices include being the first female Chairperson of the Knoxville AIChE and is currently the National Secretary for the Society of Women Engineers. In January, Patti was a recipient of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans (TOYA) 2000 Award. The TOYA Program has honored ten young Americans annually since 1940. Other outstanding recipients have included John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Howard Hughes, Orson Wells, Elvis Presley, Susan Butcher, and Christopher Reeves. Previous ORNL winners are Alvin Weinberg, Robert Charpie, Kathy Alexander, and Philip Jardine. Patti is currently serving on assignment in Washington, D. C.

Nancy Getsi is a web application developer in the Computing, Information, and Networking Division. She's led, or been a member of, the technical teams that developed Swap Shop, PRISM, KeyWeb, and PADS. In addition to web development, Nancy enjoys writing articles concerning software development issues and recently had an article published in a New York City based technology magazine for women, "Silicon Salley" (www.siliconsalley.com). 2000 is a special year for Nancy. In April she will celebrate 30 years cancer-free. She is currently under the microscope again as a participant in the "Long Term Childhood Cancer Survivor Study", a joint research effort by the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota. She is married and the mother of 3 children (2 teenagers), who are all experts at testing her mental reflexes on a daily basis.

A 1976 undergraduate of Dartmouth College, Dr. Robin Graham received her PhD in forest ecology in 1981 from Oregon State University with Dr. Jerry Franklin. Following her degree, she worked for Weyerhaeuser Company in the State of Washington in the Timberlands R&D Division. She was responsible for vegetation management research both in the nurseries and in the western plantations. In 1986 she joined the Environmental Science Division (ESD) of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Between 1986 and 1993 she worked on a variety of research topics including NEPA assessments, use of satellite imagery to detect forest productivity and deforestation, and the impacts of global warming on forests. From 1993 to 1998 she was the Systems Integration taskleader of the Bioenergy Feedstock Development Program. The mission of this Department of Energy program is to develop and demonstrate environmentally acceptable, commercially viable, bioenergy feedstock production systems. Dr. Graham's task was responsible for integrating information from the other tasks within the program to provide guidance to public, industries or government organizations interested or engaged in bioenergy research. Its objective is to demonstrate the potential for and constraints to bioenergy feedstock economic competitiveness and to assess the extent to which social goals such as clean water, protected soils, jobs, national security can be satisfied with bioenergy feedstocks. Between 1995 and 1997 she also served as an Activity leader on the International Energy Agreement working on non-technical barriers to bioenergy systems.

An ESD groupleader from 1992 to1996, she accepted the position of Section head of the Ecological and Earth Sciences Section in fall of 1998. In this role she supervises a research staff of 50 PhD and Master-level researchers working on projects as far ranging as the physiological response of trees to elevated carbon dioxide to electromagnetic detection of unexploded ordnance to the development of a seafloor simulator to investigate the biogeochemistry of methane hydrate formation under deep sea conditions.

Married since 1980 to John H Graham, assistant manager of the City of Maryville's Water Quality Control Department, Robin has two daughters - Ada, a freshman at Farragut High School and Catherine, a fifth grader at Green Math and Science Magnet School in downtown Knoxville. She loves to sing choral music, hike and cross-country ski.

In 1992, Sherry Hempfling came from the University of Tennessee and joined the Records Office in the Metals and Ceramics Division at ORNL. Over the past 8 years, she has progressed in M&C from a database processor to the group secretary for the ESH group in 1994, to her current position since1996 as a group secretary for two Research and Development Groups (X-Ray Research and Applications Group and the Theory Group).

In her professional development and continuing education, Sherry began working on her Bachelor of Science degree in 1995. In May of 1997, she graduated with a degree in Organizational Management from Tusculum College. She recently has been accepted into the Graduate Program at Tusculum College to work toward a Masters of Arts degree in Adult Education.

In 1999, Sherry was awarded the National Management Association Secretary of the Year Award for her exceptional productivity, her enthusiasm for continuing improvement, her eagerness to embrace new challenges, and for her ability to encourage and inspire all those around her.

Sherry is a member of the Oak Ridge Leadership Action Consortium, of the M&C Administrative Support Committee, and of the M&C Emergency Squad. In 1999, she was a canvasser for the Savings Bond Drive. Sherry is also involved in Knoxville community projects. One of Sherry's most recent and rewarding, self-gratifying projects was participation as a Habitat for Humanity volunteer. She worked on Knoxville's First Wheelchair Accessible Habitat House, built by TeamCovenant and other volunteers. She was instrumental in building exterior/interior walls, roofing the house, applying siding, painting, and hanging the kitchen cabinets and was awarded a gold pin in the shape of a hammer by the owner of the house for her dedication to the project. In earlier community service activities, Sherry was involved in Boy Scouts of America for eight years in various positions such as Den Leader, Webelo's Leader, Assistant Pack Leader, Roundtable Committee member, and Unit Commissioner.

Suzanne Herron is manager of Management Information and Project Controls. She reports to Ed Temple, SNS project director. During her 22 years in DOE programs, Ms. Herron has worked in 13 different organizations and has acquired a variety of experience in engineering management, program and project management, business management, technical services, and construction/plant start-up. She also has more than two years experience in strategic and long-range planning in the private sector.

Ms. Herron has a B.S. in mathematics and an M.S. in industrial and systems engineering from Ohio University, where she taught project management as a teaching assistant. Before coming to Oak Ridge, she worked as a computer programmer for Goodyear Atomic Corporation. She later held engineering and supervisory positions with Goodyear as well. She began her career in Oak Ridge as a development group leader and has continually expanded her technical expertise and project management skills. Her most recent technical assignment was as a program manager for the Environmental Restoration Division, where she was responsible for the development and management of incentive task order projects and for leading a multicorporation team.

Shelia Hillard is a Fire Inspector and Emergency Medical Technician with the ORNL Fire Department. Shelia came here from the Knoxville Fire Department in 1995. In 1987 she was selected to become one of the first women ever hired within the Knoxville Fire Department. During her time of service there, she trained and acquired Hazardous Materials Specialist along with being licensed as an Emergency Medical Technician. Prior to entering the fire service, Shelia worked in the Emergency Communication Center for the Knox County E-911 and also the Knoxville Police Department Communication Center. She is currently enrolled in an open learning program with the University of Cincinnati, seeking an Associates Degree in Fire Science Technology.

Barbara Hoffheins, of ORNL's Instrumentation and Controls (I&C) Division, is currently serving a two-year assignment as a technical advisor to the DOE Office of Nonproliferation and National Security, Office of Research and Engineering(NN-20). In this capacity, she is responsible for recommending and managing R&D projects in the Microtechnologies area. The mission of this area is to develop cutting edge technologies to support treaty verification monitoring and remote, unattended monitoring. Many of the projects involve using miniaturization techniques and novel sensing concepts to develop instruments that have laboratory levels of sensitivity and selectively, and at the same time can be easily and reliably deployed and operated in the field.

Ms. Hoffheins has been a member of the I&C staff since 1983. She has worked in the areas of instrument and sensor development and she has three patents covering her sensor developments. Also, she and her teammates won two R&D 100 awards for sensor development accomplishments. Before leaving to work at DOE Headquarters, Ms. Hoffheins was a group leader for five years. She holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Tennessee Technological University and an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee.

Sheila (Tompkins) Holbert has been an employee of ORNL for 19 years, beginning her career in 1981 as a Security Inspector. In 1983, she was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, where her responsibilities included operating the Central Alarm Station and serving as a Training Officer. She was later promoted to Captain in 1990, providing Logistical Support and conducting Special Assignments for the Protective Force. Prior to her position with ORNL, she was employed by the City of Knoxville as a Police Officer. Sheila graduated with a 4.0 GPA from Roane State Community College in 1991, receiving her AS in Police Science, Security Option, and earning a Certificate of Security Management. Having joined the ORNL Security Department in 1992, she is currently a member of the Office of Laboratory Protection's Security Operations Team, primarily responsible for physical security issues and the ORNL Operations Security (OPSEC) program. Sheila is an active member of her church where she serves as organist and assistant Sunday School teacher. Her hobbies include music, sports, and horseback riding. She resides in Halls with her new husband, Curt, and two teenage daughters, Melanie and Heather.

Tammra Horning, of ORNL's Engineering Technology Division, is the project manager responsible for overall project coordination and planning for the Parallex Project. As part of the DOE Fissile Materials Disposition Program, she leads a multi-national team of experts investigating the disposition of excess weapons plutonium using Canadian nuclear power reactors.

In early January 2000, the Parallex Project completed a significant milestone - DOE completed its one-time shipment of a small quantity of mixed oxide (MOX) nuclear fuel to Canada. The shipment was part of a U.S. non-proliferation effort to ensure that former Russian surplus weapons plutonium is put in a form that would make it very difficult to use in a weapon again. The fuel from a parallel effort on-going in Russia will be shipped to Canada later this year, marking the first time that weapons-grade plutomium will be exported from Russia. The Parallex experiment will provide technical information on the performance of Canadian Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) reactors to burn MOX fuel. This shipment received significant attention at the US Congressional and Canadian Cabinet levels. The U.S. MOX fuel elements were fabricated at DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory and will be irradiated in the Atomic Energy of Canada, Limited, test reactor in Chalk River, Ontario. Bochvar Institute in Moscow is fabricating the Russian fuel elements.

Tammra received a B.S. degree in mechanical/environmental engineering and an M.S. degree in nuclear engineering from Ohio State University and an MBA from the University of Washington. Her experience includes work in the areas of commercial nuclear utility licensing, systems/design engineering, nuclear fuel cycle design and analysis, operations/events analysis, nuclear non-proliferation studies, performance indicator development, and software/information systems design. Tammra worked in the commercial nuclear power industry for 14 years, prior to joining ORNL in 1990.

Sharon Lantz began working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in May, 1989, in the Analytical Chemistry Division for J. Michael Ramsey. The Division merged with Chemistry to form the Chemical and Analytical Sciences Division in early 1994. She has remained with Mike Ramsey's Laser Spectroscopy and Microinstrumentation Group which has grown from seven to between 32-36 group members. Her job has evolved from Group Secretary to her current position as Project Management Specialist. In addition to her various duties, Sharon has served as conference secretary for several American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry meetings, most recently assisting Mike Ramsey with his duties as Chair of the Division. She has also served as secretary for numerous other conferences hosted by staff members, as well as assisting with the Spallation Neutron Source Conceptual Design Review meeting held in 1998 in Oak Ridge. She serves as Division Staffing Representative as well as one of the Division Contacts for Organization Management. Prior to her employment at ORNL, she has worked for UT-Knoxville, TVA, and at NASA-Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Sharon is a native of Newport News, Virginia. She has two sons, ages 29 and 26, and lives in West Knoxville. In her spare time she enjoys involvement with several church activities at Cokesbury United Methodist Church and is actively involved in western square dancing.

Gay Marie Logsdon is a technical writer and editor in the Computing, Information, and Networking Division. During her 12 years at ORNL, she has contributed to a wide variety of award-winning projects, including environmental reports, scientific articles, laboratory manuals and procedures, and publicity material. She currently develops information for the ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center, an environmental data center sponsored by NASA. In recent years, she has been invited to speak about ways to increase the visibility of Web sites, and she has taught technical writing to scientists. She serves as the vice president and program manager of the East Tennessee Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. Of the third generation of a pioneer family born in the West, Gay Marie Logsdon grew up in Spokane, Washington. She majored in English and dabbled at drama at Washington State University in between studies in Wales and Japan. She earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English with a focus on linguistics and medieval literature at the University of Texas at Austin. During her studies, Gay Marie developed a penchant for Irish Gaelic and spent a year in the old country itself. She later taught English linguistics and literature at the University of Tennessee and developed writing seminars as a freelancer. After a biblical length of years, she married and surprised her husband by producing twin daughters. Gay Marie enjoys reading to her daughters, singing in her church choir, and dreaming of ways to landscape her yard.

Julia Luck is a Laboratory Technologist in the Solid State Division with 22 1/2 years company service. She has a B.S. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Julia began working at the Lab as a summer student when the Lab was operated by Union Carbide Corporation. She worked in two Divisions as a summer student, then hired into the Solid State Division full time. While in the Solid State Division, Julia has worked in four different groups. Her present job involves sample preparation for viewing in an electron microscope, equipment purchase and maintenance, purchase orders, film development, and chemical management and disposal. She is also the division Property Representative, which involves inventories, excessing property, and interfacing with the Property department when necessary. She has attended several short courses on sample preparation and has presented a poster at a conference in Kentucky. Julia has trained many Post-Docs and visitors on different methods of sample preparation.

She has been involved with the Girl Scouts as they performed many community services: cleaning out streams, planting seedlings on Sharp's Ridge to prevent erosion, singing and performing skits for nursing homes, helping sort packages at Christmas for the Boys and Girls Clubs, and many others. She is also very involved with her Church, especially working with the Youth Group. Julia has planned and served meals for the Volunteers of America, been involved with many summer service trips in and around Knoxville, including the Knoxville Work Camp during which she paint houses, free of charge, for those who are not able. She has traveled to Mexico to work in an orphanage for six years, which, she says, gave her more than she ever hoped to give. She has also been involved with FISH.

Julia has been married to Chris, also employed by Lockheed Martin in the Solid State Division, for 21 years. They have two daughters. Carrie, 17, will be attending ETSU this fall, and Angela, almost 14, will be starting high school at Farragut this fall. In her spare time, Julia enjoys reading; flower gardening; family time, which is rare; antique shopping; all kinds of crafts; and spending time with friends.

Betty Mansfield holds both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biology with honors from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Ms. Mansfield began work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 1977. In this position, she studied metabolic activation of carcinogens, DNA adduct formation, and gene expression following carcinogen exposure and chemically-induced cancer-cell regression to near normal. She and her collaborators, Reinhold Mann and James Selkirk established and validated a two-dimensional gel electrophoresis laboratory and data-analysis system, which was used at both ORNL and at the NIH National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences.

In 1989, she became founding editor of the DOE Biological and Environmental Research program-sponsored newsletter Human Genome News (HGN) and task leader of the Human Genome Management Information System (HGMIS) at ORNL. Subscribers to HGN now number nearly 13,000, and others read the newsletter on the HGMIS Web site www.ornl.gov/hgmis. HGN articles about Human Genome Project goals, progress, and resources inform the broader research community and interested public about rapidly developing events that can aid research in many areas and impact the way science will benefit and influence society. As of December 1999, HGMIS web pages are receiving 6 million text file hits per year from some 150,000 users each month.

For the work carried out by the HGMIS team, she was one of twelve recipients (selected nationally) of the DOE Biological and Environmental Research Program Recognition Awards presented at the 50-year anniversary of the DOE BER Program on May 22, 1997. The other two awardees in the genomics category were Charles DeLisi, initiator of the HGP, and J. Craig Venter, inventor of EST gene expression and shotgun sequencing technologies, and founder of Celera Genomics. She has made presentations about the HGP to minority, medical, education, and civic groups and is a member of the NIH Genetics Resources On the Web consortium.

Nancy Markham works in the Engineering Technology Division as administrative support to the division training officer. She has been with the company 23 years, having started as a typist with Union Carbide. She has also worked as a word processor when ETD operated a Word Processing Center. During her 23 years, Nancy has participated in several activities for deaf employees including participating as the guest speaker at an Affirmative Action Disability Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

Nancy was born in Harriman, Tennessee, but grew up in Knoxville where she attend the Tennessee School for the Deaf from kindergarten through 12th grade. She received the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf award and the Ethel Poore Award at her high-school graduation. She also was the salutatorian of her graduating class. After high school, Nancy attended the Cooper Institute in Knoxville where she completed a 12-month general clerical course with high honors. During her last two years of high school, she taught sign language to deaf children at the Sunshine Learning Center.

Nancy is married to Fredrick Markham who is an employee of Lockheed Martin Energy Systems. They have one daughter, Martha, who is 15 years old, and a son, Andrew, who is 11. Nancy is very active in the deaf ministry at the First Baptist Church of Knoxville. She serves on the Nominating Committee and Facilitation Committee for the deaf congregation. She is also involved in the deaf choir and drama group, has taught a children's Sunday School class, served as song leader in the worship service, and participated in deaf ministry work in Corbin, Kentucky. In addition, Nancy has attended the Southern Baptist Conference for the Deaf and was a member of the deaf choir that performed at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville. She also performed with the deaf choir at Dollywood at Christmas and Deaf Awareness Day during 1998 and 1999. Just recently she hosted three students from the Tennessee School for the Deaf as part of "Job Shadowing" day.

Dr. Gloria Mei's work in the Operations, Environment, Safety and Health Directorate focuses on radiation safety related technical services. Dr. Mei joined ORNL in January 1990 and her first four years at ORNL were spent conducting technical studies and upgrade programs in radiation protection. She presently supervises six professionals and technicians to support ORNL operational divisions in the areas of shielding calculation, radiological job review, radiation source control and other radiological engineering disciplines.

Before coming to ORNL, Dr. Mei served 3 years with Teledyne Isotopes Incorporation as the technical manager of the Radon Department and the advisor to the Dosimetry and Radiological Services Department. Dr. Mei moved to the United States in 1983 and earned her Ph.D. degree in nuclear engineering from the Kansas State University in 1986. Before that she was a senior engineer in the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research in Taiwan.

In 1991 Dr. Mei was appointed an adjunct associate professor by the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is also a certified health physicist of the American Board of Health Physics and a technical assessor of the Department of Energy Laboratory Accreditation Program. Dr. Mei is the author or co-author of over 40 professional journal articles, book chapters, and laboratory reports. Topics include radiation shielding, radiation dosimetry, health physics instrumentation, environmental monitoring, and risk analysis.

Dr. Mei's husband is a technical manager at Duke Energy Company. They have two young adult children. She feels that balancing her professional life and personal life has been challenging but rewarding.

Peggy Richardson has been a member of the ORNL Fire Department since 1984. Prior to coming here, Peggy spent four years as a firefighter in the United States Air Force. Since being hired as a fire protection inspector, fifteen years ago, Peggy has advanced to the rank of Fire Captain. She is currently responsible for the Portable Fire Extinguisher Program and serves as the Fire Department Safety Officer. Peggy has a son serving in the United Stated Navy at Norfolk Virginia.

Sharon Robinson has twenty years experience working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University in 1980. She obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering at the University of Tennessee in 1985 and 1992, respectively. She has held a number of positions in the Chemical Technology Division at ORNL, spanning from research to program planning to management. She began her career in applied research in nuclear processing and reprocessing and environmental technologies. For the last six years, she headed the Engineering Development Section of the Chemical Technology Division, an applied development group focused on innovative separation processes for mitigation of environmental problems. This culminated in the deployment of new technologies for consolidation and treatment of the high-activity tank waste at ORNL. She has recently been named Separations Science and Technology Program Manager and co-director of the newly established Center for Separations and Chemical Processing at ORNL. In this role, she has coordinated a series of national workshops where technical experts from industry, academia, and government identify future research needed to address separations problems in the chemical and related industries. The workshop results are used to direct research and development for the DOE Office of Industrial Technologies. She is the ORNL representative for the Petroleum Environmental Research Forum. She is active in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers: is a director for the Separations Division, has been a director for the Nuclear Division, is on the steering committee for the Center for Waste Reduction Technologies, and is on the national Research and New Technologies Committee.

Rhonda Rogers grew up in Rockwood and loves living in East Tennessee with all of the natural beauty it has to offer. "When it came to deciding on what college to attend, for me it was a "no-brainer" ... I had always planned on attending Roane State Community College (RSCC). What a blessing to have such a wonderful resource right here in the community." After graduating Summa Cum Laude from RSCC, Rhonda attended Tennessee Technological University (TTU) in Cookeville, TN. As a senior at TTU, Rhonda worked in Martin Marietta's Engineering Division as a co-op student. After receiving her B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 199 1, Rhonda began her career at K-25 as a Computer and Engineering Consultant assigned to several divisions. Rhonda now works at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the Office of Laboratory Protection as a Security Specialist. She primarily manages ORNL security systems that protect special nuclear material, classified matter, and government property. In addition, she administers the Security Department Network, maintains the Security Department web page, and is a member of ORNL's Emergency Cadre.

Rhonda and her husband, Marty, have two daughters, Mikenah Grace (3 1/2 years old) and Macy Nicole (18 months old). They reside in Lenoir City and are active members of Central United Methodist Church. "I am very proud of my husband who received a M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee with Honors and has started his own business. Thanks to Marty's flexible schedule, he takes care of our two daughters during the day while I pursue my career. I think it is great that our daughters have quality, one-on-one time with their Dad. Our children are our future, and we have to invest in them."

Dr. Marina Ruggles, a development staff member of the Engineering Technology Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, specializes in mechanics of materials and high temperature material behavior. She earned her bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of New York. Her master's degree in mechanics and doctorate in mechanical engineering came from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N. Y. Dr. Ruggles has published over 20 technical papers in refereed journals and over 20 technical reports. Dr. Ruggles is an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an Associate Technical Editor of the ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology.

Andrea L. Sjoreen is a Group Leader in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Computational Physics and Engineering Division (CPED). At ORNL her main responsibilities have been designing, implementing, and documenting models to assess the effects of accidents at nuclear power. The models she has developed are used for planning and during response to radiological emergencies by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Ms. Sjoreen has also worked with groundwater flow and transport models on parallel computers and in database design. She has been employed at ORNL since 1980. Previously she was employed at the Indiana State Geological Survey and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Ms. Sjoreen has a B.S. in Geology from the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle and an M.S. in Geophysics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Therese K. Stovall joined the Metals and Ceramics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1995. She has provided technical support to the Department of Energy's Combined Heat and Power Challenge program and has contributed to laboratory evaluations of a variety of insulation materials, focusing her efforts on evacuated insulation panels.

Therese was a member of the Engineering Technology Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1978 to 1995. During this time, she contributed to a number of programs. She supported the Advanced Neutron Source program and managed the Ice Storage Test Facility, a commercial ice storage testing program sponsored by the Electric Power Research Institute. Although Ms. Stovall was a part-time employee, she was able to meet milestones by carefully coordinating test schedules and by making herself available to the West-coast sponsors via her home phone and computer. She received the MMES President's Award for Continuous Improvement for a waste minimization project associated with this project. She received a patent for a load management method using wallboard containing a phase change material.

Ms. Stovall served as a member of the Hood River Conservation Project Advisory Council. Her work in the energy conservation field included development of the Residential Conservation Service Model Audit. She served as a Technical Support Representative for HUD's District Heating Program, helping city planners in Baltimore, Springfield, and Allentown identify and assess district heating applications. She coauthored the PRESTO turbine cycle analysis code which received a Certificate of Recognition from NASA.

Therese Stovall received her B.S.M.E. with distinction from Purdue University in 1977, where she participated in the co-op program. She received her M.S.M.E. from the University of Tennessee in 1988 and is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Tennessee. She is also a member of ASME, ASTM, and ASHRAE. Within ASTM, she chairs two task groups in the C16 Insulation Materials Committee.

Therese is married to another ORNL employee and they are the proud parents of three wonderful boys; she has worked on a part-time schedule since her oldest son was born in 1983. She served as a cub scout den mother until her boys outgrew that part of the scouting program, whereupon she segued into traditional soccer mom activities. She is currently the director of the youth choir and a member of the adult choir at All Saints Catholic Church. Ms. Stovall serves as a board member of Knoxville Catholic High School and as a board member of the Ulster Project (a project devoted to promoting peace in Ireland by bringing Irish Catholic and Protestant teenagers together with American teenagers to learn tolerance and respect for each other). She is a regular volunteer in the grade school clinic and library and is participating as a mentor for an undergraduate engineering student through the MentorNet Program.

Patricia Szczygiel works in the Chemical Process Technology Section of the Robotics and Process Systems Division. She received her Associates Degree in Chemical Engineering Technology from the State Technical Institute at Knoxville in 1980. She has worked for the Oak Ridge Complex for twenty years, having started at K-25 under Union Carbide.

Patricia began her career as an Engineering Aide in the Centrifuge Division in an operations group testing gas centrifuge machines. She was also involved in the research and development of components testing for advanced gas centrifuges. Transferring to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1985, Patricia began working in support of the development and testing of nuclear fuel recycling equipment for the Consolidated Fuel Reprocessing Program. She worked in the Chemical Technology Division in support of the Final Waste Forms Project. Currently, she works with the testing of solvent extraction contactors for the Solvent Extraction Flowsheet Development Project.

Patricia has done volunteer work for the Spina Bifida Association of East Tennessee, serving as past treasurer and helping with fund raising.

Karen Thacker is secretary to the Division Director of the Robotics and Process Systems Division (RPSD). She has been with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for 24 years, eight of those in the RPSD division office. Karen was introduced to the Fuel Recycle Section of the Chemical Technology Division, now the RPSD (located in Building 7601) on her very first day with the Company as a member of the secretarial pool. She's been there ever since at some level of clerical support to various members of the division.

Karen served as a member of the ORNL Administrative Advisory Council for three years.

Karen graduated from Roane County High School and received a degree in Secretarial Automation from Knoxville Business College. Karen, her husband (Mike), and two children (Matthew, 21, and Rita, 16) are all lifelong residents of Kingston. Karen's proudest achievements and greatest source of enjoyment have been and continue to be her children.

Dr. Nermin A. Uckan is the Program Leader for Next Step Options and Senior Staff Member at ORNL, and Adjunct Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK). This year marks Dr. Uckan's 25th year in ORNL's Fusion Energy Division. During these years she served in numerous roles, including the recent Program Management for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Design Activity.

She serves on various national and international advisory committees, professional societies, and technical journal editorial boards. She has broad background and experience in the physics and engineering of magnetic fusion energy, and has worked on plasma transport, plasma performance, plasma waves and current drive, burning plasma physics, plasma engineering, physics-safety interface, magnetic configurations (mirrors, EBTs, tokamaks), and various fusion reactor studies. Dr. Uckan is presently conducting research in plasma engineering, burning plasmas, fusion reactor studies, and fusion energy development. She has published more than 200 technical papers/reports on these topics, as well as her widely used work on measures of plasma performance and physics design rules and requirements for tokamak experiments/reactors.

In addition to her full-time responsibilities at ORNL, she joined the engineering college faculty at UTK during 1982-90 as a professor of nuclear engineering (part-time) where she developed and taught a number of undergraduate (three introductory) and graduate (three MS level, three Ph.D. level) fusion physics, engineering, and technology courses. She has prepared numerous volumes of course notes/reports.

She received her B.S. (1968) and M.S. (1969) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey. At the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as a NATO scholar, she received a M.S. (1973) in Nuclear Engineering, M.S. in Computer Information and Control Engineering, A.M. (1973) in Mathematics, and Ph.D. (1975) in Nuclear Engineering - Plasma Physics. Dr. Uckan is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and a member of the American Physical Society and Association for Women in Science. She has received numerous awards and recognition for her academic work and research. She was the recipient of two Outstanding Achievement Awards at the University of Michigan (1973 and 1975), Distinguished Achievement in Science Award from the Association for Women in Science (1986), and Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award from American Nuclear Society for her contributions to fusion science and engineering (1994). She is listed in the International Who's Who in Energy and Nuclear Sciences (1983). She lives in Oak Ridge with her husband Dr. Taner Uckan (ORNL I&C Division).

Katie Vandergriff has worked in the Robotics and Process Systems Division since 1987. She began working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) after two years in the Engineering Co-Op Program. She is currently working with the Robotics Division office to develop an updated web site for RPSD technologies. Prior to this assignment, she was the project manager for several successful military robotics development projects. She managed the Future Armor Rearm System (FARS) project, which developed an automated resupply vehicle for the U.S. Army's main battle tank, and the follow-on project to develop and demonstrate advanced robotic technology for artillery ammunition resupply. She is one of the few women in the world to have driven, loaded, and fired the Army's M1 tank.

Katie is active at the national level with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and serves on the National Board on Pre-College Education. She has authored several publications pertaining to robotics and education. She received the 1998 "Outstanding Leader and Advocate" Award from the American Women in Science, and was selected from nominees from across the country to serve in the first Leadership Development Initiative (LDI) Program - a year-long internship - within ASME.

She received her B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University and is currently working part time at ORNL. Her interests include a side business in portrait photography, restoring her 1879-vintage farm house, and chasing her three pre-school children - Maranda (4), Elisa (3), and Houston (2). She is also a board member on the East Tennessee Chapter of the Down Syndrome Awareness Group, and assists her husband, David, with teaching Sunday School at Powell First Baptist Church.

ORNL Women's History Month 2000