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This Issue:
 NSF
Early Career Awards
Grads
and Frosh
Professor
Morton Klein
Teaching
Prizes Given
Young
Alums Needed
Alumni
Briefs
Homecoming
2001
School Mourns
WTC Victims
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the late 1970's, when Mork from Ork said "Nano, Nano,"
no one could have predicted the importance of that phrase three
decades later. Nano- is the prefix for one of the fastest growing
areas of science and technology-research at the itty bitty, really,
really tiny scale of a nanometer: one billionth of a meter. Nanoscale
science is conducted on dimensional scales ranging from individual
atoms to large molecules. The capability to miniaturize beyond
the micro-scale into the nano-scale will impact fields as diverse
as electronics, medicine, materials, manufacturing, environmental,
and information technologies. [More]
Undergrads Publish and Present Papers
Columbia Engineering has long prided itself on its ability to
offer undergraduates the experience of a small school within a
large research university. Nowhere is this more apparent than
in the Computer Science Department, whose research program for
undergraduates involves almost a third of the student body. This
semester, more than 40 undergraduates have elected to participate
in research as part of their academic programming. [More]
Increasing the Pressure in Spinning Plasma 
The heat of the summer months was no match for the heat and pressure
produced this summer at General Atomics' DIII-D National Fusion
Facility in San Diego. In experiments that built on research done
on the HBT-EP fusion device at the School two years ago, Columbia
physicists in California have increased by a factor of two the
threshold pressure for stable confinement of hot, ionized gases
by strong toroidal magnetic force fields. [More]
SEAS Alum Prepares for Two Space Walks
Michael J. Massimino, a 1984 graduate who majored in industrial
engineering, spends several days a month in the world's largest
indoor pool, learning how to maneuver an astronomical instrument
the size of a telephone booth as he climbs in and out of a payload
bay. Massimino is a NASA astronaut at the Johnson Space Center
and is assigned to upgrade and service the Hubble Space Telescope.
[More]
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