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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a part of an NSF-funded STEM project in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Prof. Joe Natowitz from TAMU College
Station will present a lecture on </span><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="#1F497D">"</font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="teal">Heavy element searches through fusion and alternative reactions " in Science 103 from 9:30-10:45am. </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">He
will also have an informal chat with NSF scholarship recipients in Chemistry and Physics at Starbucks in the library from 3-4pm.</font><br>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;">Prof. Natowitz received his bachelor of science degree in chemistry in 1958 from the</span></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">University of Florida, where he was a Winn-Lovett Undergraduate Fellow. He also</font></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">obtained a certificate in meteorology in 1959 from the University of California at Los</font></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">Angeles. He then served three years as a lieutenant and staff meteorologist in the United</font></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">States Air Force prior to earning his doctorate in nuclear chemistry in 1965 from the</font></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">University of Pittsburgh. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the State University of New York</font></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">(SUNY) at Stony Brook from 1965-67 before joining Texas A&M University.</font></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">Before becoming an emeritus Distinguished Professor, Joe was the inaugural holder of</font></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">the Bright Chair in Nuclear Science and a Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M</font></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">University. He served as Head of the Department of Chemistry from 1982-85 and Director</font></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">of the Cyclotron Institute from 1991 through 2002. He is recognized as one of the world's</font></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">most prominent nuclear chemists and a leading expert in the field of nuclear reaction</font></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">dynamics and properties of hot nuclei. His research has been recognized internationally</font></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">by being elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1981), a Fellow of the</font></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">American Chemistry Society (2010), awarded the American Chemical Society’s Award in</font></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">Nuclear Chemistry (1995) and Southwest Regional Award (2000), as well as an Alexander</font></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (1978) and an Association of Former Students</font></p>
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<font size="3" color="#0000ff">Research award from Texas A&M University (1988). </font></p>
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