Stony Brook University Student Receives 2006 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize
June 28, 2006
UPTON, NY - Enju Lima, a graduate student at Stony Brook University (SBU), has been awarded the 2006 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize, consisting of $1,000. Administered by Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS), the prize was established to recognize substantial promise and accomplishment by women graduate students in physics who are enrolled at SBU or who are performing their thesis research at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Established in 1992, the prize honors the outstanding contributions of the late nuclear physicist Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber, who, in 1950, became the first woman Ph.D. physicist appointed to the Brookhaven staff. She became a founding member of BWIS.
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With Enju Lima (center, front) are (from left) Maurice Goldhaber, Scientist Emeritus at Brookhaven Lab and the widower of Gertrude-Scharff Goldbaber; Loralie Smart, BWIS Coordinator; Chris Jacobsen, an SBU physics professor who, along with Lima's SBU thesis advisor Janos Kirz (unavailable for the photo), nominated her for the Goldhaber Award; and Vinita Ghosh, BWIS Scholarship Committee. (Click image to download hi-res image.)
Lima earned a B.S. in nursing in Korea, and she worked in both Korea and at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York as a nurse before she returned to school, eventually earning a B.S. in physics from Hunter College in 1999. She then pursued her studies at SBU, where she expects to earn her Ph.D. in physics this summer. She plans to continue her research at the postdoctoral level at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France.
Lima did her thesis research at Brookhaven's National Synchroton Light Source and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source, both DOE facilities, where she used powerful x-rays to view the structure of yeast cells. The goal of her collaborative research project is to improve a technique using an x-ray microscope that will make it capable of viewing biological cells in 3-D at a resolution that would provide an unprecedented level of detail about a biological cell's structure. At the award ceremony, Lima gave a talk on her research, titled, "X-ray Diffraction Microscopy of Biological Samples."
NOTE TO LOCAL EDITORS: Enju Lima is a resident of Smithtown, NY.
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