[Phys-L] Re: The awards

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

This is old hat, as I was the beneficiary of such, or similar, award.
Bill Walker * received a grant to study reflectivity of halide salts in
the vacuum UV back in ~ 1956.  As a UG student lab helper, ~ $0.75/hr, I
supervised the shop's construction of a vacuum evaporator and assisted
in the assembly of the spectrometer. I then performed the first
measurements of a salt.  We used a grazing incidence spectrometer,
inherited from Berkeley, a differential pumping discharge, and a
salicylic acid coated MPT.


I'm pleased the grants have continued, but disappointed they have become
more restricted.  Everything gentrifies.  UCSB was a only a single
college then (Letters and Science); no grad school.  Hence my
introduction to research at the young age of 18 or 19.  I think the
grant was for a few thousand dollars, maybe only one.

* recently retired from UCSB.


bc, who peaked too early.

Ludwik Kowalski wrote:

> Perhaps somebody on our list is going to be interested in the
> announcement below.
>
> Ludwik Kowalski
> Let the perfect not be the enemy of the good.
>
>    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> * * * * *
> From: Research Corporation <RCbooks@rescorp.org>
> Date: Fri Jun 3, 2005  18:29:02 America/New_York
>
> Frederick Gardner Cottrell, inventor of the electrostatic precipitator
> and the founder of Research Corporation, once said ìBet on the
> youngsters; they are long shots, but many will pay off.î Research
> Corporation is doing just that with its Cottrell Scholar Awards
> program. The awards, in the amount of $100,000, are made to teacher
> scholars in the physical sciences at Ph.D.-granting institutions.
> Eligibility is limited to scientists in the third year of their first
> tenure-track position. The program requires applicants to submit two
> proposalsñone for research and one for teaching. The research proposal
> is assessed for originality, feasibility and the prospect for
> significant fundamental advances to science. Ongoing contributions to
> education, especially at the undergraduate level, aspirations for
> future accomplishments in teaching, and the proposed strategies to
> achieve educational objectives are factors in the assessment of the
> teaching proposal. To learn more about the Cottrell Scholar Award,
> visit our website www.rescorp.org/csa/csa.htm.
>
> A congratulatory announcement appears in the June 3, 2005 issue of
> Science magazine (opposite ìNetwatchî). The full-page notice (which
> includes a listing of this yearís awardees) can also be seen on
> Research Corporationís website at www.rescorp.org/csa/sciencead.pdf
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