2000 Newsletter
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Graduate/Undergraduate News
2000-01 Student Enrollment
For the academic year 2000-2001, the total number of undergraduate students is 87. This fall the Department will have 14 incoming graduate students bringing the total to 53 for the M.S. and Ph.D. programs.Departmental Student Awards
The following exceptional students were recognized in 1999-2000: Distinguished Service Award--Carrie McGivern; Myrtle K. Maier Scholarship--Anna Tauke; William R. Savage Memorial Award--Joseph Evans; Waldo Edward and Martha Althaus Smith Award--Antonio Boveia; James A. Van Allen Award--Benjamin Moehlmann; Goertz/Nicholson Memorial Scholarship--Salvatore Mancuso; John and Stacey Wahl Scholarships--Suat Ozkorucuklu, Xuejun Cao. Congratulations on a job well done.
 Student Anna Tauke with faculty advisor Prof. Yasar Onel. |
Student Accomplishments
This spring Anna Tauke was selected by the National Science Foundation as one of ten U.S. undergraduate physics students to spend the summer at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. Anna, a junior from Dubuque, is working toward an electrical and computer engineering degree as well as her physics degree. She is also a UI Presidential Scholar, Undergraduate Scholar Assistant, and member of the UI Honors Program and Hawkeye Marching Band.Suat Ozkorucuklu has won the second prize of the George Michail Memorial Poster Award at New Perspectives 2000, the graduate students' conference at Fermi National Laboratory in Batavia, IL.
Jason Hiner was selected by the UI Council on Teaching for the University's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for his excellence in teaching. The award carries a $1,000 prize.
Jon Olesberg received a Graduate Deans Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2000. The award is made when a dissertation stands well above other nominations for the Spriestersbach Prize. The award carries a prize of $500.