Presidents Three  Photo Credit: Lalena Lancaster Three of the four women to serve in the APS Presidential line got together at the American Center for Physics in College Park, MD, in March to attend the meeting of the governing board of the American Institute of Physics (see story on page 6). Myriam Sarachik (left) is the current APS President. Mildred Dresselhaus (center) was President in 1984, and Helen Quinn (right), as the current President- elect, will become President in 2004. The fourth woman APS President was the late Chien-Shiung Wu, who served in 1975. Dear Congressman  Photo Credit: Jessica Clark Harvey Gould of Clark University (standing) offers some advice to William Jensen of UMass-Boston, who is preparing to write to his representatives in Congress using special software provided by the APS Office of Public Affairs. More than 2000 letters to Congress were written by attendees at the March meeting. March Meeting Prize and Award Recipients  Photo Credit: Eller's Photography 2003 Prize and Award recipients at the March meeting gather together for a group photo with sponsors of two of the awards. They are listed left to right, with an asterisk denoting the sponsors. Front row: Phaedon Avouris, Ivan Schuller, Jason Alicea, Giacinto Scoles, Arthur Ashkin, Andrew Lovinger, Dhiraj Sardar. Back row: Boris Altshuler, Ruud Tromp, Kennedy Reed, C. Paul Robinson, Kevin Lehmann, Steven White, Russell Donnelly (*), Pierre Hohenberg, George Flynn, Leon Radziemski (*). |