AWARDS
And The Winners Are...

Lynn Boatner (left) and Hu Longmire received the Grand Prize in the 2003 Advanced Materials and Processes cover competition for their metallograph. Winning metallograph showing features formed by the physical separation of two large titanium carbide grains.

ORNL Corporate Fellow Lynn A. Boatner received the AACG Crystal Growth Award, the highest honor bestowed by the American Association for Crystal Growth, for "novel research in the area of crystal growth that has advanced the application of single crystalline materials and enhanced the appreciation of crystals both scientifically and aesthetically." Boatner and Hu Longmire received, the Grand Prize for their entry in the 2003 Cover Competition of Advanced Materials and Processes, an ASM International publication (see image below). An entry by Boatner, Allison Baldwin, and ORNL Corporate Fellow Stan David in the 2003 ASM/IMS International Metallographic Competition received the First Place Award in the Light Microscopy Category; their paper is titled "Three-dimensional Metallographic Reconstruction of Solidification Microstructures in Stainless Steel Single Crystals."

Michael Ramsey , an ORNL corporate fellow, earned the 2003 American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation. The award, sponsored by the Dow Chemical Foundation, recognizes valuable contributions and achievements in analytical chemistry.

The Welding Institute of the United Kingdom presented an award to Sudarsanam Suresh Babu for his contributions to the advancement of welding technology.

Robust wireless technologies for extreme-environment communications, developed at ORNL, received the Excellence In Technology Transfer Award of the Year at the Southeastern Region of the Federal Laboratory Consortium awards ceremony, held in September 2003 in Charleston, South Carolina; the Southeast Region covers nine states and more than 40 federal laboratories. The winning researchers were Stephen F. Smith, Gregory R. Hanson, Michael R. Moore, John P. Jones, Jr., Roberto Lenarduzzi, Michael S. Emery, Gary W. Turner, Milton N. Ericson, Timothy E. McKnight, James O. Hylton, James A. Moore, Alan L. Wintenberg, William B. Dress, and Paul D. Ewing . There were four other ORNL winners. Recognized for Excellence in Technology Transfer were Nancy J. Dudney, John B. Bates, Bernd J. Neudecker, Ashok Choudhury, Chris F. Luck, and Greg R. Gruzalski, for "Thin-Film Rechargeable Lithium Batteries," and Thomas Thundat, Z. Hu, Russ Miller, Protiveris Rep, and Sebastian Kossek, for "Microcantilever-Based Biosensors." Honorable Mention winners were Michael Ramsey, Stephen C. Jacobson, Roswitha S. Ramsey, and Ashok Choudhury, all of ORNL, and Michael R. Knapp of Caliper, Inc., for "Lab-On-A-Chip," and Baohua Gu and Gilbert M. Brown, for "New Ion Exchange and Regeneration Technology for Water Treatment."

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