Professor Walter L. Borst has been elected Secretary- Treasurer of the Texas Section of the APS. He recently served as a member of the NSF Review Panel for Graduate Fellowships. For several years he has served as Chair of the South Plains Regional Science Fair.

Professor Kelvin K. Cheng was an invited participant at the 1998 NSF/Harvard International Physics Education Conference. He recently gave a colloquium at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine at New York. He is on a Faculty Development Leave in the Fall of 1999. He is spending part of it at the U. of California at San Francisco and part of it at TTU.

Professor Stefan K. Estreicher is Vice-Chair of the 2000 Gordon Conference "Point and Line Defects in Semiconductors". He will be Chair of the 2002 conference. He is on the Executive Committee of the Texas Section of the APS. He recently gave colloquia at King's College (UK), the U. of Exeter (UK), and the U. of Aarhus (Denmark). He recently was an invited speaker at the European Materials Society Meeting (Strasbourg, France), the 8th NREL Workshop on Crystalline Solar Cell Materials (Copper Mountain, CO), the Workshop on Hydrogen in Silicon (Exeter, UK), and the South African Physical Society Meeting.

Professor Shubhra Gangopadhyay has recently given colloquia on antifuse research and device development at Actel Corporation, Texas Instruments, and Motorola. She recently served as a member of an NSF Division of Materials Research proposal Review Panel.

Associate Professor Wallace L. Glab took a Faculty Development Leave in the Spring of 1999. He spent part of it at Argonne National Laboratory and part of it at TTU. He is a Scientific Term Appointee at Argonne National Laboratory.

Professor and Chair Lynn L. Hatfield served as Chair of the 1998 International Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Breakdown and as Awards Chair and Member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the 1998 International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum. He serves as Education Committee Chair of the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society and as Technical Program Committee member for both the IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference and the IEEE Modulator Conference.

Associate Professor Mark W. Holtz was invited speaker at the 1998 APS March National Meeting Symposium on Professional Development. He serves on the national AAPT Committee on Professional Concerns.

Professor Roger L. Lichti serves as a Primary Spokesman for International Muon Spin Resonance in Semiconductors Collaboration.

Professor M.A.K. Lodhi was an invited speaker at the 1998 Workshop on Theoretical Nuclear/Particle Physics and at the 9th International Conference on New Science. He was nominated as the International Biographical Center (Cambridge, UK) "Man of the Year."

Horn Professor E. Roland Menzel took a Faculty Development Leave in the Fall of 1998. He spent it at TTU writing a book, "Fingerprint Detection with Lasers," (Marcel Dekker, 1999). He is featured on the weekly public radio broadcast "We're Science."

Professor Charles W. Myles recently gave research colloquia at Ohio State U., the U. of Ohio, the U. of Southern California, and the U. of Missouri. He was a panelist at the NSF 1999 Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Development Proposal Review. He is Associate Editor for Physics for the Texas Journal of Science. He will take a Faculty Development Leave in the Spring of 2000, when he will be a Visiting Professor at the Arizona State University. (Tempe, AZ).

Associate Professor Vaia Papadimitriou is a Member of the Executive Board of the CDF Experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. She is co-Organizer of the Commission and Monitoring Session of CDF and Chair of the CDF Calorimeter Review Committee. She recently gave invited talks at the XXIV International Conference on High Energy Physics (Vancouver, Canada) and at the Workshop on Nuclear and Particle Physics, (Ames, IA)

Associate Professor Alan F. Sill served as Chair of the 1998 Workshop on Space Based and Balloon Borne Calorimetry. He is a member of the Computing and Software Review Committee and of the International Coordination Board for the CDF experiment at Fermi Lab. In 1998-99 he was a Visiting Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He recently gave an invited colloquium to the Institute for Particle Astrophysics at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

Bucy Professor Richard Wigmans took a Faculty Development Leave in the Spring of 1999. He spent it at the U. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland. He spent much of that time writing a book. He served as Editor for the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics. He recently gave an invited colloquium at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville, AL).