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2:25 p.m., Dec. 17, 2002-- Edmund R. Nowak, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, has been named a Cottrell Scholar by Research Corporation, which was founded and endowed by chemist Frederick Gardner Cottrell.
He is one of 14 nationally to receive the honor, which includes a stipend of $75,000 to further teaching and research.
In a letter to President David P. Roselle announcing the award, John P. Schaefer of Research Corporation wrote, “Each proposal was subjected to exhaustive peer review and Dr. Nowak’s proposal rose to the top. These awards are unusual in that they recognize faculty who excel in both teaching and research. We believe the Cottrell Scholar Awards are among the most prestigious fellowships for beginning faculty in the sciences… It gives us great pleasure to recognize the promise of Professor Nowak as a teacher-scholar with this award and to join with the University of Delaware in support of the development of this young scientist.”
Nowak’s research involves the experimental study of electronic, magnetic and dynamic properties of solid state systems, and he specializes in educational topics that address expanding magneto-electronic and powder-mixing technologies.
At UD, he has helped design a new computer-based introductory physics laboratory sequence based on modern data acquisition data analysis techniques and is a member of a four-person team on a National Science Foundation grant directed at developing a problem-based learning program for changing undergraduate physics teaching.
A graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Nowak received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota. He was a postdoctoral student at the University of Chicago, where he concurrently served as educational outreach coordinator for the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, and also at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before joining the UD faculty in 1999.
Article by Sue Moncure
Photo by Kathy Flickinger
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