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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
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WHEREAS, Eric R. Bittner, associate professor of theoretical |
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chemistry in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Natural |
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Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Houston, is one of two |
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chemists in the United States and Canada and the only chemist from |
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the State of Texas to be named a 2007 Fellow by the John Simon |
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Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; and |
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WHEREAS, Eric Bittner earned a bachelor of science degree |
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with high honors and honors work in chemistry and physics from |
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Valparaiso University in 1988 and a doctoral degree in chemistry |
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from The University of Chicago in 1994; and |
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WHEREAS, He was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral |
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Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin from 1994 to 1996, a |
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Visiting Scholar at Stanford University from 1996 to 1997, and a |
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member of the Visiting Faculty at the Center for Non-Linear Studies |
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at Los Alamos National Laboratory during the summer of 2001; and |
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WHEREAS, Professor Bittner has been on the faculty of the |
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University of Houston since 1997, when he received his appointment |
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as an assistant professor of theoretical chemistry; he was promoted |
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to associate professor of theoretical chemistry in 2003, which is |
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the rank he holds today; and |
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WHEREAS, Before becoming a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in |
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2007, he received the Elizabeth A. Norris Award for Excellence in |
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Graduate Research from The University of Chicago in 1994, the |
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National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemistry, |
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1995 through 1997, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in |
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1999, and the Wiley-International Journal of Quantum Chemistry |
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Young Investigator Award in 2003; and |
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WHEREAS, Eric Bittner's outstanding research on the dynamics |
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of molecules in their excited states earned him the honor of his |
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Guggenheim Fellowship and placed him among an illustrious group of |
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Guggenheim Fellows that includes recipients of the Nobel Prize, the |
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Pulitzer Prize, and other awards of high and great distinction; |
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now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the 80th Legislature of the State of Texas |
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hereby congratulate Professor Eric R. Bittner on his selection as a |
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2007 Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and |
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commend him for bringing pride and prestige to the University of |
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Houston and to the people of Texas; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be prepared for Eric |
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R. Bittner as an expression of high regard from the Texas |
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Legislature. |