LehighWeek Volume 01, Issue 27

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PRESIDENT FOR A DAY
Jim Boylan, a junior finance major,
won a busy day meeting faculty,
administrators, and alumni as
"president" of Lehigh in a raffle.
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TURBULENT VISIT
Lehigh's Rajan Menon was in the first group
of Americans to visit Afghanistan since the
Soviet invasion in 1979. Underneath a veil of
normalcy, he says, danger brews.
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FIRST WINNER
Judith Arroyo, academic coordinator in mathematics, is the first
winner of the Zirkel Staff Award.
For other winners of faculty and
staff awards, See Story Page 4>
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May 11,1988
Dr. George D. Watkins and graduate student John Trombetta study a model of the molecular lattice of a semiconductor.
Semiconductor Expert Elected
To National Academy Of Sciences
By ROBERT FISHER
"A perfect crystal of silicon would be rather dull," notes
Dr. George D. Watkins. "What makes it interesting are the
defects that dramatically change its electrical and optical
properties."
Watkins' years of study of the microscopic imperfections that facilitated the semiconductor revolution have led
to one of the highest honors in science — his election last
month to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.
Watkins, the Sherman Fairchild professor of physics at
Lehigh, was one of 61 scientists elected to the 1,540 member
academy. Election to the academy is considered by most
scientists to be second only to the Nobel Prize as a measure
of scientific achievement.
"It came as a complete surprise," said Watkins, who
learned of his election in a telephone call on April 26, just
after the academy's annual meeting. "It's a very select
body."
"For a scientist in the United States, being elected to the
national academy is the highest academic honor that exists,"
Watkins observed. Although there are distinguished awards
given in specific disciplines, "this is the only award that
represents the total body of the scientific community."
The National Academy of Sciences was chartered by
Congress in 1863 to provide government with advice on scientific matters. One other Lehigh faculty member is a
member of the academy — Donald T. Campbell, University
Professor of social relations and psychology. The academy
includes scholars in all areas of the natural sciences and
engineering. About 60 new members are elected each year
"For a scientist in the U.S., being elected to
the national academy is the highest academic
honor that exists."
Dr. George D. Watkins
by secret ballot of the existing members in recognition of
distinguished achievements in original research.
Watkins credits much of his success to "a very favorable environment for research at Lehigh."
"Our present team is one of the most outstanding
groups working in this area in the world," Watkins said. "In
this type of research, success depends a good deal on
having very fine graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and visiting scientists — and we do."
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5 Named To Receive
Honorary Degrees
A theologian, a trustee and native son, an astronaut, a
real-estate magnate and a Nobel Prize winner will receive
honorary degrees Sunday, June 5, at Lehigh University's
120th commencement.
Peter Likins, Lehigh president, will confer honorary
degrees upon Robert McAfee Brown of the Pacific School
of Religion; Murray H. Goodman, Lehigh trustee and
chairman of the Goodman Co., West Palm Beach, Fla.;
Terry J. Hart, Lehigh alumnus and Space Shuttle veteran;
Donald J. Trump, president of the Trump organization; and
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, winner of the Nobel prize in
physiology or medicine.
Goodman and Trump will receive doctor of laws honorary degrees; Brown, doctor of humane letters; Hart, doctor
of engineering; and Yalow, doctor of science.
Brown will give the baccalaureate speech at 10 a.m. in
Packer Memorial Church, and Trump will deliver the
commencement address at 2:30 p.m. in Stabler A&CC,
where about 1,200 undergraduate and graduate students will
receive degrees.
Brown, professor emeritus of religious studies at Pacific
School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif., has been nationally
active in civil rights and ecumenical movements since the
1960s. Author of more than a dozen books, he also taught at
Stanford University and Union Theological Seminary. He
holds a bachelor's degree from Amherst College a master's
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Lehigh's Planning Process
Subject Of MSA Case Study
Every 10 years, colleges and universities accredited by
the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States
Association (MSA) go through a lengthy, comprehensive
self-study process— sometimes taking up to two years—
that leads to accreditation for another decade.
Accreditation essentially is an extensive evaluation of a
university that ensures that it is carrying out its stated
mission. Accreditation is a prerequisite for federal funding,
and many students won't consider a college that is not
accredited.
Lehigh University's accreditation expires at the end of
the next academic year, but Lehigh won't be going through
the exhaustive "self-study" process.
Instead, the university recently presented MSA with a
case study on its planning process. Lehigh's planning	
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LehighWeek SUMMER SCHEDULE
This is the last regular issue of LehighWeek for
the semester. Summer issues will be published
on June 8, July 13, and August 10. Fall semester
publication will begin August 31.