The Materials Research Society (MRS) has announced that recent Heath Group graduate, Akram Boukai, PhD, is an MRS Graduate Student Gold Award winner.  His talk, Silicon Nanowires as High-Performance Thermoelectrics, was deemed gold medal-winning after his presentation March 26, 2008 at the MRS Meeting.  Congratulations, Akram!

Please see details here:  http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/doc.asp?CID=12356&DID=201572 [1]