{"id":289,"date":"2016-11-22T20:38:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T20:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/?p=289"},"modified":"2016-11-22T20:38:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T20:38:53","slug":"elaine-ben-whiteley-honored-cos-distinguished-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2016\/11\/22\/elaine-ben-whiteley-honored-cos-distinguished-service-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Elaine and Ben Whiteley honored with CoS Distinguished Service Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2016\/11\/Whiteley_IMG_3891.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-290\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2016\/11\/Whiteley_IMG_3891-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"whiteley_img_3891\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2016\/11\/Whiteley_IMG_3891-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2016\/11\/Whiteley_IMG_3891-768x671.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2016\/11\/Whiteley_IMG_3891-1024x894.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elaine and Ben Whiteley were honored with the College of Science Distinguished Service Award on Friday, November 18th, 2016 at a dinner and award ceremony in the Memorial Union.\u00a0 Mr. and Mrs. Whiteley are pictured at the awards dinner with Prof. Janet Tate.\u00a0 The Whiteleys are OSU alumni who graduated in 1951 and 1953 respectively, and are long-time friends of the Physics Department and the College of Science.\u00a0 They contribute generously to the endowment for the <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.oregonstate.edu\/events-Yunker-archive\">Yunker Lecture<\/a> series, in honor of Elaine Yunker Whiteley\u2019s father, Prof. Edwin A. Yunker, who was on the physics faculty for 43 years and was department chair from 1949 to 1966.\u00a0 They have also created a scholarship for students in Materials Science that bears their name.\u00a0 Many of our students have received the <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.oregonstate.edu\/whiteley-materials-fund\">Whiteley Materials Science Fellowship<\/a> and we all continue to enjoy the intellectual vibrance that the annual Yunker Lecture brings.\u00a0 Congratulations and thank you both for your support and friendship!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elaine and Ben Whiteley were honored with the College of Science Distinguished Service Award on Friday, November 18th, 2016 at a dinner and award ceremony in the Memorial Union.\u00a0 Mr. and Mrs. Whiteley are pictured at the awards dinner with Prof. Janet Tate.\u00a0 The Whiteleys are OSU alumni who graduated in 1951 and 1953 respectively,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2016\/11\/22\/elaine-ben-whiteley-honored-cos-distinguished-service-award\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1500,2027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}