MITRE Intern Receives Distinguished Nanotechnology Award

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Bedford, Massachusetts, November 29, 2000 — MITRE student intern Chris Love has been awarded this year's Distinguished Student Award by the Foresight Institute for his significant contributions to the field of nanotechnology. Love received the Award, which includes both a trophy and a cash award, during the Feynman Awards Banquet at the Eighth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechology held earlier this month in Washington, D.C.

Love joined the not-for-profit MITRE Corporation as an intern in the Nanosystems Group in 1994 while a student at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Springfield, Va. Working with Nanosytems Group Leader Dr. James Ellenbogen, he has co-authored several influential journal articles on nanoelectronics; invented a means of building integrated molecular electronic circuits that has been adopted by several major molecular electronics investigators; and is experimenting with novel nanofabrication techniques in collaboration with three other MITRE interns.

Love graduated with high honors in chemistry from the University of Virginia in 1999, where he researched nano-manipulation of structures on surfaces with surface chemist Professor Paul Weiss. He is now a second-year graduate student at Harvard University working toward his doctorate in chemistry. At Harvard he is collaborating with Professor George Whitesides to formulate a nanotechnology research strategy for the Whitesides Research Group.

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