May 16, 2003

UEC Community Service Award to be Presented to Michael Sullivan

Congratulations go out to Michael Sullivan, Chief Beamline Engineer for Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Mike is the second recipient of the NSLS Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) Community Service Award. This award is given for service, innovation and dedication to users of the NSLS.

Members of the NSLS user community nominated Mike for this award. Here are some of the comments that users sent about his wonderful contributions:

• “Mike is admired as a tireless, creative force dedicated to the principle of delivering user service.”
• “In my opinion Mike is one of the most knowledgeable and extremely helpful engineers at NSLS floor, with very long experience [19 years] with dealing with all technical aspects of many different kinds of X-ray synchrotron research conducted at NSLS. He is a person, who made it possible for very many staff and visitors to obtain top quality research results.”
• “On several occasions, he has come in on weekends to help us salvage an experiment gone awry, or to bail us out of a technical problem. On one occasion, we reached him via his cell phone on his boat at sea, and he was able to come in and fix the problem to keep us running.”
• “Mike is undoubtedly a gold standard of service, innovation and dedication to users. Moreover, during this winter's biggest blizzard, I remember walking by the NSLS parking lot when Mike turned his car into a towing truck in order to help his users to pull out their car out of a huge pile of snow.”

Leemor Joshua-Tor, the Chair of the NSLS UEC, will present the award to Mike at the NSLS Users’ Meeting banquet on the evening of May 20th. Mike will receive a $250 gift certificate and his name will be engraved on the plaque on display in the lobby of the NSLS.

PHOTO BY: Roger Stoutenburgh

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Leemor Joshua-Tor