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September 29, 2000 Purdue professor receives National Sigma Xi award WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University professor Dale W. Margerum will receive Sigma Xi's 2000 Monie A. Ferst Award Oct. 14 during a day-long symposium in his honor. The award will be presented at Purdue during a symposium focusing on the achievements of Margerum's former doctoral students. The symposium will be held in Room 104, Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry, and is open to the public. The award consists of a medal and $5,000 and is presented annually to a scientist who has inspired his or her colleagues to significant scientific achievements and made "notable contributions to the motivation and encouragement of research through education." Margerum, the Harvey Washington Wiley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, joined the Purdue faculty in 1954. He has published more than 230 papers on the kinetics and mechanisms of reactions in solution, the development of new analytical methods to measure fast reactions, and the characterization and analysis of reactive species. He has served as research director for 83 doctoral graduates and 20 master's graduates. Sigma Xi was founded in 1886 as an honor society for science and engineering. Today it is an international research society whose programs and activities promote the health of the scientific enterprise and honor scientific achievement. The Monie A. Ferst award is named for an outstanding engineer and businessman who received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1911. CONTACT: Margerum, (765) 494-5268, margerum@purdue.edu. To the Purdue News and Photos Page