October 15, 2002

Brenner Receives Feynman Prize

Dr. Brenner

Dr. Donald W. Brenner, associate professor of materials science and engineering at North Carolina State University, received a 2002 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for his pioneering research in theoretical nanotechnology at the 10^th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology held October 11–13 in Bethesda, Maryland.

Brenner received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the State University of New York in 1982 and his doctoral degree in chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University in 1987. Brenner joined the College of Engineering faculty in 1994. He also is an associate faculty member in the Department of Chemistry. Before coming to NC State, he was a research scientist in the Theoretical Chemistry Section with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

Brenner’s research interests include computational materials science and new technologies for materials education. His numerous awards for research include a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award in 1995 and the more recent Alcoa Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award in 2000.

The Foresight Institute began awarding the Feynman prizes in 1993 to encourage and accelerate the development of molecular nanotechnology. The Foresight Institute selected two 2002 Feynman prize winners. The other prize is for research in experimental nanotechnology.

See also www.ncsu.edu/research/results/vol4/12.html.

— mcblief —

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