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Jeff Kuhn and Bob Schommer Receive Tenure (1Mar93)
(from the Director's Office, NOAO Newsletter No. 33, 1 March 1993)

It is a pleasure to announce that at its meeting on 22-23 January 1993,
the AURA Executive Committee approved the Observatory Advisory
Committee's recommendations that Jeff Kuhn and Bob Schommer be granted
tenure in NOAO.

Jeff Kuhn has just joined the NSO staff at Sacramento Peak Observatory;
he was formerly a professor at Michigan State University, where he held
a Sloan Fellowship. He was cited for the breadth of his scientific
contributions and interests on the basis of his work in precision
global photometry, infrared magnetometry and coronal photometry,
helioseismology, and even exploration of the gravitational instability
of dwarf elliptical galaxies. Kuhn was praised for the combination of
abilities in instrumentation, numerical modeling and physical theory
that went into the body of significant work. The NSO and NOAO staffs
are fortunate that Kuhn is joining us as a colleague.

Bob Schommer moved to CTIO in 1990 from Rutgers, where he was a
professor.  He is widely noted for his observational work on the
stellar populations of nearby galaxies, the properties of large-scale
motions of galaxies and relation to the Hubble flow, and his work on
internal galaxy velocity fields with the Rutgers Fabry-Perot. He was
also cited for his outstanding service and support work with the Fabry
Perot, the small telescopes and the Cassegrain spectrographs, as well
as in representing CTIO in planning for the Gemini Project. Schommer is
valued as a supportive and stimulating colleague both within CTIO and
throughout NOAO; we are pleased at his decision of long-term commitment
and this recognition of his contribution.

Richard F. Green

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