Recently, Dr. Edward Whittaker from the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics was appointed a Senior Faculty Fellow to the 2008 ONR-ASEE Summer Faculty Research Program. Dr. Whittaker will be a guest researcher at the Naval Research Lab in Washington (see http://chemistry.nrl.navy.mil/6180/index.php) where he will work on development of laser spectroscopic methods for analysis of fire suppression for the Navy.