Professor L�szl� N�nai, faculty member in physics at the University of Szeged in Hungary, has been awarded a four-month Fulbright grant for a proposal written in collaboration with Tom George, chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. The grant will enable Professor N�nai to spend the 2001 fall semester as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at UWSP, where he will lecture in the departments of physics and astronomy, and chemistry, and also will collaborate in scientific research with George and other science faculty on campus.

Chancellor George and Professor N�nai have been active research collaborators for over a decade since they first met at a conference in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Their research deals with the theory of chemical physics and laser-materials interactions, including both linear and nonlinear optics, and the mathematical interpretation of surface heterogeneous reactions.

Chair of the department of physics at the University of Szeged, N�nai has been a visiting professor in France, Italy, Finland and at New York State University College. He has been a research fellow in Germany and in Russia. He has won a number of awards from the Hungarian Ministry of Higher Education and the Vedres Jozsef Medal from the Hungarian Technical Scientific Committee. N�nai holds a Ph. D. from Attila J�zsef University in Szeged.

George has many ongoing international collaborations, including one with Professor Sasha Popov from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Krasnoyarsk, East Siberia, who is visiting UWSP with help of a grant awarded by the National Research Council. A world-renowned chemist and physicist, George has authored/co-authored 570 articles and authored/edited 10 books.

This year he co-edited a book with Professor Vadim A. Markel (Washington University in St. Louis) entitled "Optics of Nanostructured Materials." In 1998 he co-authored "Fundamentals in Chemical Physics" with an Italian chemist, Professor Franco Battaglia, faculty member in chemical physics at Terza University of Rome, Italy. In 1999 George co-edited "Computational Studies of New Materials" with Professor Daniel A. Jelski, current head of the department of chemistry at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana.

In addition to his administrative and faculty appointments at UWSP, George holds an appointment as adjunct professor at Korea University in Seoul. He received a bachelor�s degree from Gettysburg College and master�s and doctoral degrees from Yale University, followed by postdoctoral work at MIT and UC-Berkeley.

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