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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Congratulations, John!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>I agree with Ramu; we should celebrate the news at the all-hands meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>DM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>_____________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Dr. Daniela S. Mainardi<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Thomas C. & Nelda M. Jeffery Professor <br>Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Nanosystems Engineering <br>Louisiana Tech University<br>911 Hergot Ave.<br>Ruston, LA 71272<br>Phone: (318) 257-5126<br>Fax: (318) 257-5104<br><a href="mailto:mainardi@latech.edu"><span style='color:blue'>mainardi@latech.edu</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> lasigma-funded-bounces@loni.org [mailto:lasigma-funded-bounces@loni.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Vladimir L. Kolesnichenko<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 03, 2011 11:42 AM<br><b>To:</b> Lawrence R. Pratt; lasigma-funded@loni.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [LA-SiGMA-funded] Fwd: John Perdew Elected to the National Academy of Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Congratulations, John<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Vladimir<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 05/03/11, <b>"Lawrence R. Pratt" </b><<a href="mailto:lpratt@tulane.edu">lpratt@tulane.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 10.0pt;margin-left:0in;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear LA-SiGMA collaborators: fantastic news!<br><br><br>Lawrence<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: McGuire, James H <mcguire@tulane.edu><br>Date: Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:37 AM<br>Subject: John Perdew Elected to the National Academy of Sciences<br>To: "McGuire, James H" <mcguire@tulane.edu>, Adrienn Ruzsinszky<br><aruzsinszky@gmail.com>, "Alb, Alina O" <aalb@tulane.edu>, "Oertling,<br>Annette B" <annette@tulane.edu>, "Walker, Cedric F" <cfw@tulane.edu>,<br>"Kim, Dae H" <kimdh@tulane.edu>, "Purrington, Robert D"<br><danny@tulane.edu>, "Gaver, Donald P" <dpg@tulane.edu>, "Tipler, Frank<br>J" <tipler@tulane.edu>, "Wietfeldt, Fred E" <few@tulane.edu>,<br>"Rosensteel, George T" <grosens@tulane.edu>, "Norton, Guy V"<br><<a href="mailto:gnorton@tulane.edu">gnorton@tulane.edu</a>>, "MacLaren, James M" <<a href="mailto:maclaren@tulane.edu">maclaren@tulane.edu</a>>,<br>"Shakov, Khazhgery K" <<a href="mailto:kshakov@tulane.edu">kshakov@tulane.edu</a>>, "Perdew, John P"<br><<a href="mailto:perdew@tulane.edu">perdew@tulane.edu</a>>, "Pratt, Lawrence R" <<a href="mailto:lpratt@tulane.edu">lpratt@tulane.edu</a>>, "Kaplan,<br>Lev" <<a href="mailto:lkaplan@tulane.edu">lkaplan@tulane.edu</a>>, "Altiero, Nicholas J" <<a href="mailto:altiero@tulane.edu">altiero@tulane.edu</a>>,<br>"Horwitz, Norman G" <<a href="mailto:nhorwitz@tulane.edu">nhorwitz@tulane.edu</a>>, "Li, Shao-Chun"<br><<a href="mailto:sli1@tulane.edu">sli1@tulane.edu</a>>, "Schuler, Timothy M" <<a href="mailto:tschule@tulane.edu">tschule@tulane.edu</a>>,<br>"Diebold, Ulrike" <<a href="mailto:diebold@tulane.edu">diebold@tulane.edu</a>>, "John, Vijay T"<br><<a href="mailto:vj@tulane.edu">vj@tulane.edu</a>>, "Paliwal, Vinod K" <<a href="mailto:vpaliwal@tulane.edu">vpaliwal@tulane.edu</a>>, "Reed,<br>Wayne F" <<a href="mailto:wreed@tulane.edu">wreed@tulane.edu</a>>, "Mao, Zhiqiang" <<a href="mailto:zmao@tulane.edu">zmao@tulane.edu</a>>,<br>"Bernstein, Michael A" <<a href="mailto:mbernstein@tulane.edu">mbernstein@tulane.edu</a>>, "Cowen, Scott S"<br><<a href="mailto:scowen@tulane.edu">scowen@tulane.edu</a>><br>Cc: "Berault, Eleanor E" <<a href="mailto:eleanor@tulane.edu">eleanor@tulane.edu</a>>, "Parker, Teresa K"<br><<a href="mailto:tkparker@tulane.edu">tkparker@tulane.edu</a>>, <a href="mailto:wplummer@www.phys.lsu.edu">wplummer@www.phys.lsu.edu</a><br><br><br>Dear Friends,<br><br> Please join me in congratulating John on his election to the<br>National Academy of Sciences. John's leading effort in the density<br>functional theory (DFT) is widely used in many fields to calculate<br>fundamental properties of materials. Professor Ward Plummer of LSU<br>was a leader in this effort.<br><br> Jim<br><br><br>-- <br>Lawrence R. Pratt<br>Herman and George R. Brown Chair<br>Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering<br>300 Lindy Boggs Center<br>Tulane University<br>New Orleans, LA 70118<br><br>phone: 504-862-8929<br>fax: 504-865-6744<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Vladimir Kolesnichenko<br>Assistant Professor<br>Inorganic Chemistry<br>Xavier University<br>New Orleans, Louisiana<br>Ph.# 504-520-5430<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>