| LCI News |
May
31,
2007 |
Dr.
J. W. (Bill) Doane, Director Emeritus of the Liquid Crystal Institute,
has been awarded the first
ever Slottow-Owaki Prize for Display Education established by the Society
for Informational Displays. Dr. Doane has been a driving force behind
many successful developments in the fields of science, scientific infrastructure,
education and technology transfer associated with liquid crystals. Polymer-dispersed
and polymer stabilized liquid crystals are just the few research directions
associated with his efforts. For many years, he led the LCI as its director,
he secured the NSF funding for the Science and Technology Center ALCOM
that brought together researchers from Kent State, Case Western and the
University of Akron. Together with Peter Palffy-Muhoray and others, he
added the graduate program dimension to the LCI, known as CPIP. Now,
he leads one of the most successful companies in the field, Kent Displays.
At
the same SID meeting, yet another member of the LCI was recognized
and honored. CPIP professor Deng-Ke Yang has been elected a Fellow of
the Society for Informational Displays "for his significant scientific
and technological contributions to bistable, reflective cholesteric displays
and to polymer-stabilized cholesteric devices, and for his outstanding
contributions to education in the field of liquid crystal technology" (Informational
Display, May/June 2007, page 28). Yang continues
to advance research in other directions as well, and his two recent
textbooks on displays remain at the top of many best-selling lists.