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John Canik
received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering this year from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  John also earned an M.S. from the University of Wisconsin, and a B.A. in physics and computer science from New York University.  He received several awards as a student, including the Samuel F. B. Morse Medal and the David W. Grainger Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, and has nine publications, with two as first author.  (cont...)
 
  Chris Griffin     

Chris Griffin joined the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division as a Wigner Fellow working with Rick Sheldon in December 2007. He received his Master’s degree in 2004 in Mathematics and his Ph.D. in 2007 in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Pennsylvania State University. (cont...)

     
               
  Paul Kardol    

Paul Kardol joined the Environmental Sciences Division as a Wigner Fellow working with Aimee Classen in February 2008. He received his Master’s degree in 2000 in Landscape Ecology / Animal Population Biology from the University of Utrecht. Paul earned his Ph.D. in Ecology in 2007 from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) / Wageningen University. (cont...)

     
Henry Lin

Henry Lin joined the Biosciences Division as a Wigner Fellow working with Ram Datar in January 2008. He received his B.S. in 2002 in Bioengineering from University of California, Berkeley, where he worked in Professor Arun Majumdar’s group on the development of array-based microcantilever biosensors.
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Chris Mann
is one of the most recent recipients of ORNL’s Wigner Fellowship.  In 2006, he received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the University of South Florida. Chris completed an MS and BS in Physics with Astrophysics (2002 and 2001), from the University of Birmingham, England, UK. (cont...)

 
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Petro Maksymovych
received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, working at the Surface Science Center under the directorship of Prof. John T. Yates, Jr. Peter earned his B. Sc. in chemistry from the Kiev Taras Shevchenko University in Ukraine. (cont...)

 
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Michael McGuire
received his Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University in 2006. Prior to this he earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from the University of Mississippi. During his academic career he received several awards, including the Michael A. McGuire Award for Academic Excellence, a Taylor Medal, and a Graduate Achievement Award from the University of Mississippi, and a Cornell University Fellowship. (cont...)
 
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Roger Melko completed his Ph.D in physics this year from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Roger has also attained the M.A. in physics from the University of California and the M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in physics from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. In addition to several scholastic awards as both an undergraduate and graduate student, (cont...)

 
   
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Kevin Shuford received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Florida in 2003. Kevin is a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University, where his studies were in nanophotonics Currently, Kevin has 14 publications, including a book chapter, with nine as first author. He has also received several university fellowships and awards for his achievements in chemical physics and inorganic chemistry. (cont...)

 
             
  Athena Safa-Sefat  

Athena Safa-Sefat joined the Materials Sciences and Technology Division as a Wigner Fellow in December 2007. She is in Correlated Electron Materials Group, working with David Mandrus. She received her B.S. in 2001 and her Ph.D. in 2005 at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario), in Solid State Chemistry. Her doctorate thesis was completed under John Greeden’s supervision and on the magnetic and electronic transitions of vacancy-doped oxide materials. (cont...)

     
 
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Paul Snijders joined the Materials Science and Technology Division as a Wigner Fellow in January 2007.  He received his Ph.D in 2006 in low dimensional condensed matter systems from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. As a student, Paul was a 2006 recipient of the Wayne B. Nottingham Prize at the Physical Electronics Conference. (cont...)

 

 
 

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