• Elizabeth Kearns, University of Hawaii, for her thesis on closed life support photosynthetic ecosystems for space. • Sedgwick Simons, Rice University, for his dissertation on the phototron. The Special Group Prize was presented to the Creative Marketing Strategy Team of Harvard Business School for its analysis and marketing strategy of materials processing in space. The team members are Bruce Ferguson, Thomas Glass, Abbie Griffin, Barry Johnson, Richard Peel, David Thompson, and Scott Webster. Judging the 1981 research proposal applicants were Space Foundation Scientific Advisory Council Chairman Hubert P. Davis, Vice President, Eagle Engineering, Houston, Texas; and Council Members William C. Brown, Consulting Engineer, Raytheon Company, Waltham, Massachusetts; Dr. David R. Criswell, Visiting Research Physicist, California Space Institute, La Jolla, California; Dr. Alex Dessler, Chairman, Space Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas; Dr. George Deutsch, former NASA Director of Research and Technology, Washington, DC; Dr. John W. Freeman, Director, SPS Research, Rice University; Dr. Peter E. Glaser, Vice President, Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Dr. Harlan Smith, Director, McDonald Observatory, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Established in 1979, The Space Foundation is a public, nonprofit, educational and research foundation, dedicated to accelerating efforts to develop and use the vast resources of space. Special emphasis is placed on funding studies toward recoverable space resources in energy and materials and on the early involvement of private enterprise in these ventures.
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