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Alumni Association Award Recipients for 1998

I am pleased to announce the recipients of the 1998 Alumni
Association Awards for Excellence. Don Eigler, B.A. 77,
Ph.D. 83, an experimental physicist, has been selected to
receive the Outstanding Alumnus Award. Eigler electrified the
world of science when he literally wrote the letters AIBM@
with individual xenon atoms on a metal surface. His elegant
experiments have advanced our ability to manipulate small
units of matter.

Rodey Batiza, Ph.D. 78 will be presented the Professional
Achievement Award. Batiza received his degree in earth sciences
from SIO and has gone on to gain international stature in
research on the earth's mid-ocean ridges, the globe-encircling
rift system where new crust is created. Batiza is widely
recognized as a world leader in research that addresses this
fundamental phenomenon of earth's geologic evolution.

Paul Pickowicz, professor of history, will be honored for
Distinguished Teaching. Highly recommended by his peers and
former students, Professor Pickowicz combines the qualities of a
remarkably talented and accomplished scholar with those of the
adroit and deeply committed mentor and teacher. Pickowicz is
recognized as a program builder for Chinese Studies, for East Asian
history, and for the History Department as a whole. He was also
instrumental in the successful effort that secured Title VI funding
from the U.S. Department of Education for East Asia studies on campus.
Wayne Akeson, M.D., will receive the Distinguished Service to the
University Award for his commitment and service to the School
of Medicine. A recipient of the highest awards possible in the
orthopaedic community, Akeson was the first Division Chief of
Orthopaedics when the UCSD School of Medicine opened. He
has served as acting Chair of the Department of Surgery and Acting
Dean of the medical school. The University recognized his efforts
and work in creating an academically and clinically superb Division
of Orthopaedic Surgery, which under his guidance became a department
of the School of Medicine in 1991.

Monroe Trout, medical doctor, lawyer, and pharmaceutical research
director, will be recognized as an Honorary Alumnus for the services
he has rendered to the University as chair of the UC San Diego Board
of Trustees. During his tenure as head of the foundation, he increased
the number of endowed chairs on campus from 42 to 63. Trout and his
wife Sandra endowed two chairs themselves, one in pharmacology and
one in surgery. Trout has also served on the boards of advisors of the
UCSD Medical Center, the UCSD Thornton Hospital, and the Connect
Steering Committee.

These recipients and outstanding senior students will be honored on
Saturday evening, June 13, at the Awards for Excellence Gala at the
Birch Aquarium. Participation of faculty, staff, students and the greater
San Diego community is welcome. For an invitation or more information
on the gala, contact the Alumni Relations Office at 534-3900.

Bernie Farrow Executive Director Alumni Relations