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UI
professor to receive Global Energy Prize
Nick Holonyak Jr., a John Bardeen Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering and Physics at the UI, has been selected
as a 2003 recipient of the Global Energy Prize from Russia. He
shares the $900,000 prize with Gennady Mesiats of the Russian
Academy of Sciences and Yan Douglas Smith of Titan Pulse Sciences
Division.
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Phillip
Olaf Berge,
61, died April 15 at his home in Champaign. Berge had worked as
a physics teaching laboratory specialist in the physics department
for six years, resigning in 1994. Memorials: Lake Forest College
Science Equipment Fund, Lake Forest, Ill.
Peggy Ann Eichelberger, 66,
died April 18 at her home in Fisher. Eichelberger had worked as
a typing clerk III in the UI Housing Division for nearly nine
years, resigning in 1988.
Norman George Philip Krausz,
83, died April 15 at Royal Palm Convalescent Center in Vero Beach,
Fla. Krausz was a professor of agricultural law, heading that
program for 20 years before retiring in 1977. Memorials: Neurofibromatosis
Foundation, P.O. Box 6, Algonquin, IL 60102-0006.
Minerva Pinnell, 90, died
Sept. 26 at Paris Community Hospital, Paris, Ill. Pinnell was
an emeritus professor of art and design. She taught at the UI
for 23 years, retiring in 1979. Memorials: Kansas Community Memorial
Library or a charity of the donor’s choice.
Linda Lee Reed, 55, died April
19 at her home in Champaign. Reed had worked at the UI as extra
help office assistant II from October 2000 through August 2001.
Memorials: Susan G. Komen Foundation at www.komen.org.
William "Max" M. Rex,
86, died April 15 at the Champaign County Nursing Home, Urbana.
He worked in the Division of Operation and Maintenance for 33
years. Memorials: AMVETS White Clover Fund, 203 W. Hill St., Champaign,
IL 61820.
Sirpa H. Saarinen, 41, died
April 17 at her home in Mahomet. Saarinen was a research programmer
at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and had
worked at the UI since 1988.
Jacqulyn L. Williams, 71,
died April 12 at her home in Sidney. Williams worked at the UI
for 25 years, retiring as a maid for the Illini Union in 1997.
She returned as extra help from August 1999 through August 2002.
Memorials: Carle Hospice, the American Cancer Society or Shaklee
Cares.
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