Part 1: Table of Contents Part 1 Page 1-2 Dear Alumni and Friends Slice of Nobel life Pages 3-5 2002 Distinguished Alumni Award Harold A. McMaster Receives Honorary Degree Page 6 President's Pre-Game Brunch Ohio State vs. Michigan, November 23, 2002 Pages 7-8 The First African American Physicist The Physics Education Research Group Part 2: Table of Contents Part 2 Page 9-10 Department of Physics Welcomes New Eminent Scholar Experimental Biophysics Program Begins at Ohio State Pages 11-12 2002 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching 2002 Distinguished Scholar Award 2002 Distinguished Staff Award Bunny C. Clark wins OSAPS Howard Maxwell Award Jim Burns Graduates with a B.S. in Physics Page 13-14 Arthur Epstein and William Saam Selected as Fellows of the American Association or the Advancement of Science Harris Kagan Named APS Fellow Gordon J. Aubrecht Awarded John B. Hart Award for Distinguished Service Pages 15-16 Women in Physics Lunch Winter Party 2003 Researchers Develop World's First Light-Tunable "Plastic" Magnet Plastic Shows Promise for Spintronics, Magnetic Computer Memory Part 3: Table of Contents Part 3 Page 17-18 Research Could Explain Unusual Behavior in Superconductors Electronics Decipher Fermilab Collisions Society of Physics Students Michael Tychonievich Wins Goldwater Scholarship Page 19-20 Academic Achievement Scholarship Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society Department of Physics Undergraduate Awards Ceremony, May 29, 2002 Page 21-22 Ph.D. Graduates Generosity as Big as Texas Search to Fill Endowed Chair Underway Page 23-24 Physics Open House Alumni in the News