PASADENA-James J. Morgan, who is Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Environmental Engineering Science and former vice president for student affairs at the California Institute of Technology, has been awarded the 1999 Clarke Prize by the National Water Research Institute.

The $50,000 award is given each year in the field of water research and technology.

"Dr. Morgan's career contributions to the body of knowledge encompassing the many fields of water science and technology have been truly exemplary," according to the Clarke Prize citation.

PASADENA—James J. Morgan, who is Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Environmental Engineering Science and former vice president for student affairs at the California Institute of Technology, has been named cowinner of the $150,000 Stockholm Water Prize for 1999.

He and the other winner, Werner Stumm of Switzerland, will be presented the award by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, in Stockholm in August.

A Caltech computer scientist who specializes in wavelet-based methods for creating computer graphics has been awarded a $625,000 grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

Caltech engineering students will decide whose machine is thebest when the 14th annual ME72 Engineering Design Contest is held at 2p.m.Thursday, December 3, in Beckman Auditorium.

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have found a way to stack silicon layers on chips in a way that could lead to significant new advances in silicon-based electronic devices.

A distinguished facility that made a significant contribution to the World War II era passed into history April 30 when the California Institute of Technology officially closed down its 68-year-old wind tunnel. Four Warplanes That Flew in World War II Featured in Commemorative Campus Flyover May 1997 97

PASADENA—For Russell Drosendahl, copiloting a vintage World War II Curtiss Commando on April 30 was fairly routine. A veteran of 27,000 hours in the air, he has flown everything from the big World War II bombers to TWA jetliners.

PASADENA—The historic 10-foot wind tunnel at the California Institute of Technology will pass into the aviation-history books on April 30, when it is decommissioned after 68 years of continuous service.

Conceived in the 1920s by Theodore von Kármán ("the father of aeronautics"), the wind tunnel was used to test many of the warplanes that helped the Allies win World War II — among them, the P-51 Mustang, the B-24 Liberator, the B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-29 Superfortress, the twin-fusilage P-38 Lightning, the B-25 Mitchell, and the night fighter P-61 Black Widow.

PASADENA—Yaser Abu-Mostafa, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Caltech, has received the third annual Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

The Feynman Prize, which is made possible by an endowment from Ione and Robert E. Paradise, is given each year to a Caltech professor who demonstrates exceptional ability, creativity, and innovation in both laboratory and classroom instruction. As the 1996 recipient, Abu-Mostafa will receive $3,000 and an equivalent raise in salary.

Caltech professor Wolfgang Knauss will receive the 1995 Murray Medal on June 14 at the spring conference of the Society for Experimental Mechanics in Grand Rapids, Michigan.