LehighNow Volume 03, Issue 03

              LEHIGHNOW
October 2,2002
Volume 3, Issue 3
Nobel laureate de Gennes to speak,
receive degree at Founder's Day
IN BRIEF
HONORS/AWARDS
Chen wins
top award
John C. Chen, the Carl R.
Anderson Professor of
chemical engineering, has
become only the fourth
chemical engineer in 40
years to win the Max
Jakob Memorial Award,
the top international
prize for achievements in
heat transfer.
Chen received the
award last month at the
12,h International Heat
Transfer Conference in
Grenoble, France.
The recipient of the
Jakob Award is chosen by
committees representing
the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers
(ASME) and the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers (AIChE). Chen
is a fellow in both
organizations.
Chen, a former dean of
the P.C. Rossin College of
Engineering and Applied
Science, was praised by
award nominators not
only for his research in
boiling but also for his
more recent work in other
areas of heat transfer.
"John Chen has been the
pioneer and the unquestioned leader in the world
on boiling heat transfer
and other areas involving
two-phase flow and heat
transfer," said Raymond
Viskanta, the W.F.M.
Goss Distinguished
Professor of Engineering
at Purdue, who won the
Jakob Award in 1986.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes,
who won the Nobel Prize in
Physics in 1991, will
receive an honorary Doctor
of Science degree at
Lehigh's annual Founder's
Day, which is being held
this year at 4 p.m. on
Friday, Oct. 11, in Packer
Memorial Church.
The Founder's Day
Ceremony celebrates the
accomplishments of
Lehigh's leaders—faculty,
students, trustees and
alumni donors—who help
ensure that the university
continues to grow and
thrive. A festive open-air
reception will follow the
Founder's Day Ceremony
from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on
the University Center Lawn.
De Gennes, who is best
known for his studies of
liquid crystals and
polymers, will also give a
public lecture on "Principles of Cellular Adhesion: Statics and Dynamics" at 4 p.m. Thursday,
Oct. 10, in Packard Lab
Auditorium. A reception
at 3 p.m. in the lobby of
Packard Lab will precede
the lecture.
This will be de Gennes'
fourth visit to Lehigh. He
gave plenary lectures at
both the 1990 and 2000
Colloid and Surface
Science Symposiums and
spoke at the Distinguished
Lecture Series on Polymer
Interfaces in 1992.
DeGennes, director of the
Ecole Superieure Physique
Chime Industrielles in
France, has spent a 40-year
career finding common links
in areas such as magnetism,
superconductivity, polymers,
liquid crystals-the materials
used in digital watches and
laptop computer screens-
and modern plastics and
fabrics. He has been praised
for his ability to reduce
complex phenomena to a few
simple mathematical truths.
Rossin to
receive first
'Ingenuity'
award
Peter C. Rossin '48, who,
with his wife, Ada Rossin,
gave a $25-million endowment for the P.C. Rossin
College of Engineering and
Applied Science (RCEAS) in
1998, will receive the first
"Engineering Ingenuity
Award" from the college now
named in his honor.
The Lehigh Engineering
Ingenuity Awards are being
established to honor those
whose "unwavering dedication" to the RCEAS and to
their discipline have enhanced
the college's reputation and
prepared it to improve in an
ever-changing global society.
The first award, The Lehigh
Engineering Ingenuity Award
for Alumni/Friend of the
College, will be presented to
Rossin at 5:30 p.m. on
Thursday, Oct. 10, following
a public lecture by Nobel
laureate Pierre-Gilles de
Gennes in Packard Lab
Auditorium.
Rossin earned a bachelor's
degree in metallurgical
engineering from Lehigh and
a master's degree in engineering from Yale. In 1967, he
started Dynamet Inc., which
found new uses for titanium-
alloy products in the
aerospace, chemical, medical,
and petroleum industries.
The company was purchased
by Carpenter Technology
Corp. in 1997.
"I respect what Lehigh has
offered to the scientific
community and to my career,"
Rossin says. "I feel you owe a
debt to society and to the
institutions that were
fundamental to your success."
Campus Square
grand opening set
Campus Square, which links
the Lehigh community with
the vibrant South Side of
Bethlehem, will officially
open Saturday, Oct. 12, with
a daylong celebration.
The grand opening runs
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. At 11
a.m., Lehigh President
Gregory C. Farrington and
Bethlehem Mayor Donald T.
Cunningham kick off an
afternoon of entertainment
that includes live music, a
fashion show of clothing
designed by Lehigh entrepreneurs, free food, and great
prizes. In addition, the
half time show of the Lehigh-
Towson away football game
will be broadcast live from
Campus Square on WFMZ-
TV, Channel 69.
The new complex features
dormitories, the new Lehigh
University Bookstore, and
three new eateries: The Cup,
a branch of the famous
Bethlehem ice cream parlor;
Jazzman's, a coffee shop;
and Pastificio's, an Italian
restaurant.