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Lopez named RHO-SIGMA-TAU Robert L. Shoemaker Professor of Physics
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The president of the University of Texas at El Paso conferred the title of RHO-SIGMA-TAU Robert L. Shoemaker Professor of Physics to Dr. Jorge A. Lopez at the University convocation last Sunday April 26, 2001.  The reasons for such an award were, according to Dr. Clarence Cooper, former holder of the professorship, "we basically ran out of good applicants".


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