Calit2 Directors Present Framed Web Page to Cicerone

10.05.04 -- Albert Yee, Irvine division director, and Larry Smarr, institute director, recently presented UCI Chancellor Ralph J. Cicerone with a framed enlargement of the June 21 Calit² Web site that featured him prominently.

Albert Yee (left) and Larry Smarr (right) present UCI Chancellor Ralph J. Cicerone with a framed Calit² memento commemorating his accomplishments.

June was a monumental month for Cicerone, an acclaimed atmospheric scientist. He was nominated to serve as president of the National Academy of Sciences and named this year's winner of the prestigious Albert Einstein World Award of Science by the World Cultural Council.

Cicerone's nomination to the NAS presidency was unanimously approved by the organization's council and is expected to be confirmed by election later this year. His six-year term will begin in July 2005.

The Einstein science award, which will be presented to Cicerone next month at the University of Liege in Belgium, recognizes his pioneering contributions to atmospheric chemistry. Cicerone holds UCI's Daniel G. Aldrich, Jr. Chair in Earth System Science and is a professor of chemistry. He is also a co-principal investigator for Calit².