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CITEC
Names Clarkson University's Center for Advanced Materials
Processing Outstanding Partner
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During
the past several years, CITEC and Clarkson / CAMP have partnered
to address waste process issues at 18 North Country companies
- ultimately saving in disposal costs and improving productivity
while finding ways to reuse materials to create value-added
products that have previously been destined for landfills.
The projects involve research teams from the University, CITEC
staff and partnerships between the region's manufacturing
companies.
Those partnership efforts between CITEC and Clarkson have
not gone unnoticed by New York State's leading economic development
and research organizations. Empire State Development's Environmental
Services Unit has committed hundreds of thousands of dollars
in funding support for the waste reduction projects. Project
Manager Brenda Grober from ESD's Environmental Services Unit
attended CITEC's annual banquet to offer her congratulations
to CAMP. NYSTAR's Director of Programs Kathleen Wise also
joined in praising the partnership. NYSTAR provides significant
State resources in support of the work performed by both CITEC
and CAMP.
Distinguished University Professor and CAMP Director S.V.
Babu expressed his gratitude for the recognition and looked
forward to additional project opportunities. "We at CAMP are
delighted and gratified by this CITEC award. The close collaboration
between CITEC and CAMP and the results that already followed
exemplify the complementary skills and synergistic strengths
of these two North Country organizations. My colleagues and
I derive immense pleasure in working with the CITEC team,
especially Tom Plastino and John Pinkerton, helping strengthen
technologically and financially our local companies and contributing
to their continued success. CAMP, supported by President Collins,
is committed to enhancing this collaborative environment and
to deliver benefits to North Country and New York State economies,"
Babu said.
CITEC Manufacturing & Technology Solutions is a not-for-profit
economic development organization that receives significant
financial support from the New York State Foundation for Science,
Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), New York's high-technology
economic development entity, and the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership
(MEP). CITEC is one of NYSTAR's ten designated Regional Technology
Development Centers in the State and one of nearly 400 MEP
locations across the country.
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Clarkson
University President Anthony Collins (left) introduces Bozica
Matijevic' and Dr. Egon Matijevic', the Victor K. LaMer
Professor of Colloid and Surface Science, at the Egon's
Day dinner.
Professor
Egon Matijevic' Celebrates Fifty Years of Excellence at
Clarkson University
For
fifty years at Clarkson University, Egon Matijevic', the
Victor K. LaMer Professor of Colloid and Surface Science,
has been inspiring excellence in the laboratory, the classroom,
and in life. As a world-renowned researcher with numerous
scientific publications and patents to his name, he has
defied convention among his higher education peers and been
a leader among the Clarkson faculty to mentor students to
span boundaries across disciplines, nations, and cultures
in order to link discovery and engineering innovation with
enterprise.
Throughout this past year, many exciting and memorable events
were carried out in honor of Professor Matijevic'. The year-long
celebration culminated in "Egon's Day," which was held in
Potsdam on October 18, 2007. It included four lectures.
Poet Virginia Clark Clarkson, who received an Honorary Doctorate
of Humane Letters from Clarkson in 1989, read her poetry
on the theme of science and humanity dedicated to Egon.
Sir John Meurig Thomas, Professor Emeritus of the Royal
Institution of Great Britain, gave the presentation titled
"The Sons of Genius: Benjamin Franklin, Michael Faraday,
and Humphrey Davy." Professor Thomas was knighted by Queen
Elizabeth II in 1991 for services to chemistry and the popularization
of science. Nobel Laureate Richard Ernst, Professor Emeritus
of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, gave a presentation
titled "Fascinating Tibetan Painting: Art Seen through the
Eyes of a Western Scientist." He received the 1991 Nobel
Prize in Chemistry for his work toward the development of
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Also Nobel Laureate Ivar
Giaever, Professor Emeritus of the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, spoke about science and technology. In 1973,
he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with L. Esaki and B.D.
Josephson.
On his special day, Professor Matijevic' made an announcement
about a gift that he and his wife Bozica would give to Clarkson
University. They contributed $100,000 to the "Egon Matijevic'
Endowed Scholarship." This Scholarship was first launched
in 1988, when a group of his former students started a fund
to honor his many years of teaching at Clarkson and to recognize
his scholarly contributions to research. His colleagues,
friends, and former students have contributed to the endowed
fund over the past year bringing its total to nearly $300,000.
The scholarship will provide assistance for undergraduates
who are pursuing a degree in chemistry and demonstrate financial
need.
In addition a second fund, the Matijevic' Endowed Lectureship
Series, was started with a $20,000 donation by his colleague
Senior University Professor Richard Partch and his wife
JoAnne. The money will be used to attract successful Clarkson
alumni to visit the campus annually to share with students
the value of a Clarkson education in their careers.
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