PRESS RELEASE Related Press Releases For Immediate Release Date: January 24, 2004

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The National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (NOGLSTP) is pleased to announce that Dr. Larry Wagner will be the first recipient of its GLBT Award Award. The NOGLSTP GLBT Award honors a lesbigaytrans engineer, scientist, or educator who has made outstanding contributions in their field, and recognizes sustained contributions in design, production, management, education, or research.  Dr. Wagner will receive this award at a ceremony during the NOGLSTP Reception at the upcoming 2004 AAAS Annual Meeting in Seattle on February 15, 4-6 pm, at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel.

Dr. Wagner, a physical chemist, is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Texas Instruments, where he is the Failure Analysis Strategy Manager in the Business Quality Department. He is author of the book, Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits: Tools and Techniques (Kluwer Academic Press 1999), a reference work for semiconductor professionals and researchers.  An expert in characterization of the surfaces of materials, Dr. Wagner has been a prodigious contributor to peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences for over 35 years, has taught graduate-level courses in Failure Analysis at the University of New Mexico, and has been a lecturer in TI’s Semiconductor Process Engineering Series.  He was the first president of the Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society , a Charter Member of Sematech Product Analysis Forum, served as Program Chair for the Dallas Chapter of the IEEE Reliability Society, and Chair for the Sematech Council of Failure Analysis Leaders.  During his past 27 years of employment at Texas Instruments, Dr. Wagner has made exceptional contributions to the semi-conductor industry and to the understanding of how to make reliable chips.  In addition to his technical achievements and accomplishments at Texas Instruments, Dr. Wagner has been very active in the GLBT community.  He is currently an officer of TI-Legend, an employee organization dedicated to incorporating glbt staff as integral, respected members of the TI work force.

At the same awards ceremony, NOGLSTP will present two other awards – the Walt Westman Award and the Institution/Organization Award.  Rochelle Diamond, a Member of the Professional Staff at Caltech, will receive the 2004 NOGLSTP Walt Westman Award.  This award is given to a NOGLSTP member in recognition of outstanding contributions to the advancement of NOGLSTP’s growth.  The NOGLSTP Institution/Organization Award honors the institution or organization which has demonstrated outstanding support for NOGLSTP and its programs or objectives. The American Association for the Advancement of Science has been selected to receive the 2004 NOGLSTP Institution/Organization Award.   Dr. Alan Leshner, CEO of AAAS, will accept this award on behalf of AAAS.