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In Brief...Foreign Journalists Tour Fuel Cell CenterA group of prominent international journalists visitedMines in May as part of a U.S. State Department tour focusedon Colorado’s emerging “new energy economy.” The ColoradoFuel Cell Center on the Mines campus was one stop onthe tour.The 13 journalists, who represented major radio andtelevision stations and newspapers in Switzerland, Germany,Korea, China, Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic and Estonia,listened to presentations by Robert Remick, Robert Kee,Tony Dean and Neal Sullivan.“Meeting with the foreign journalists provided an excellentopportunity to get a different perspective on fuel cells,” saidRemick. “In the U.S., we concentrate on the fuel efficiency aspects of fuel cells—for example, getting 50 percentmore electricity for the same amount of fuel or getting twice the miles per gallon equivalent of a standardgasoline fueled vehicle. “The foreign journalists on our tour were much more interested in the ‘green’ aspects offuel cells—like low carbon dioxide emissions and no criteria air pollutants. However, top on the list of questionsasked by the foreign journalists were, ‘When can I buy a fuel cell?’ and ‘How much will it cost?’ and in that, theyshare common ground with their U.S. counterparts,” Remick added.In addition to visiting some of the state’s top research institutions, the journalists met with Colorado businessleaders and entrepreneurial start-up companies.The new CTLM addition has been completedand the Academic Networking and ComputingDepartment has moved there from its formerhome in the Green Center.A team of three Mines engineers, KongHan, Bernard Levy and Chester Van Tyne,received SAE International’s Arch T. ColwellMerit Award during the recent SAE 2007 WorldCongress in Detroit. The team was recognizedfor their paper “Bauschinger Effect Responseof Automotive Sheet Steels.”A research group in the Advanced Coatingsand Surface Engineering Laboratory(ACSEL), consisting of John J. Moore,Jianling Lin, Brajendra Mishra, SudiptoBhattacharyya, Malki Pinks and SterlingMyers, was presented with the best paperaward at the 2007 Metal Casting Congressheld in Houston in May. The award was theculmination of nearly four years of researchwork between ACSEL and the die castingindustry.Arpita P. Bathija, Haiyi Liang, MoneeshUpamanyu, Ning Lu and Manika Prasadfrom the Geophysics, Materials Science,and Engineering departments have beenawarded a Clay Minerals Society Researchand Travel Grant for their interdisciplinarywork on “Elastic Properties of Clays” usingnanoindentation and molecular simulation.Distinguished Senior Scientist WarrenHamilton, Department of Geophysics, willreceive the 2007 Tectonics and StructuralGeology Career Achievement Award of theGeological Society of America at the Society’sannual meeting in Denver in October.Hamilton received the Society’s highest awardfor research, the Penrose Medal, in 1989and is a member of the National Academy ofSciences.Robert L. Siegrist has been awardedcertification by eminence and welcomed intothe American Academy of EnvironmentalEngineers as a Board Certified EnvironmentalEngineer.Ambassador Mohd Azhari Bin Abdul Karimof Malaysia will spend fall 2007 in residencein LAIS as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar.The Malaysian Prime Minister’s office hasassigned the topic of energy policy in theU.S. for Azhari to research during his stay.Upon his return, Azhari will head an energypolicy research center at the Universiti SainsMalaysia in Penang.Ning Lu has received the 2007 AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers Norman Medal,recognizing his work in unsaturated soils aspublished in the Journal of Geotechnical andGeoenvironmental Engineering.Postdoctoral researcher Amy Clarke is therecipient of the eighth Willy Korf Award forYoung Excellence. The award, named in honorof the late German steel industrialist, is givenannually to one graduate student worldwideto recognize the contribution of the student’sresearch to the steel industry. The award waspresented during the Steel Success StrategiesXXII: New World, New Opportunities, NewCrises conference in New York in June.Colorado School of Mines 9