Dear Friends,

Here is the current basket of news items:

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1.  Aaron Evans has won a NASA Fellowship that will permit a
summer of research at Cal Tech.

2.  Phil Allen won a J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship for next academic
year.  Phil will be on sabbatical leave at Columbia University.
(Only 4 Guggenheims in Physics were awarded this year; others
are Jon Rosner (Chicago), George Bertsch (Washington) and
Larry Sulak (Boston).

3.  Jerry Francischelli has won this year's ASNY Graduate Research 
Prize and gave the Prize lecture this week at the ASNY meeting
in Rochester.  This is the third year in the last four that SB 
students (Lynn Matthews, Hsiao-Wen Chen, and now Jerry) have won the award.  
Jerry has been working with Ralph Wijers and the paper was
   "The Evolution of Relativistic Binary Progenitor Systems"
   Astrophys. J. 565, 471-481 (2002)
   by J. Francischelli, R. Wijers, and G. Brown

4. Seth Aubin has been named a finalist for the New Focus Student
of the Optical Society of America and receives a prize of $2500.
He will give a presentation at the CLEO-QELS meeting in Long Beach 
CA at the end of May, from which three out of the eight presenters will
be named winners of a $10,000 prize!

Congratulations to Aaron, Phil, Jerry and Seth!

5.  Eleven undergraduates will present their research results
at the annual undergraduate research celebration in May.
There were nine abstracts, with a total of eleven registered
undergrad participants.  Five more undergraduates (Roger Cheng, 
Constantinos Constantinou, Fermin Nunez, Gurpreet Singh, and 
Christopher Werth) are listed as members of the NN group, for 
a grand total of 16.  Presenters are:
1) Robert Wlodarczyk, Radiation Oncology
2) Jill Chen, Laser Teaching Center
3) Jennifer Nierer, Laser Teaching Center
4) Doug Broege, Laser Teaching Center
5) Jory Meltzer, works with Alfred Goldhaber
6) Tan Anh and Sam Roberts, Nuclear Structure
7) Megumi Kinoshita & Evan Guarnaccia, NN group 
8) Peter Yaron, particle physics group (Rijssenbeek)
9) Amy Roberts, Francium / Nuclear Structure

Robert Wlodarczyk will also present his research results
"Film Based IMRT QA Using an Unbiased Automated Registration Technique"
(Sponsor:  Lawrence Reinstein, Department of Radiation Oncology)
in partial fulfillment of the degree from the Honors College at
the Honors College Symposium,  SAC 340, 3:40pm  April 25.

6.  The Fulbright competition for US students (seniors and 
graduate students) for study and research abroad has been announced.  
Information can be found in seminars at the Graduate
School Conference Room 2401 Computer Science Wed. April 24 at 11:30AM 
and April 30 at 3:00 pm, at http://www/iie.org  or from Elizabeth
Barnum, ebarnum@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.