James Lloyd Allen

Awards and Activities

• Principal Investigator for the grant entitled "Controlled Orientation of an Acoustically Levitated Object," Eastern Illinois University, Council for Faculty Research, Fiscal Year 1996.
• Principal Investigator for the grant entitled "Acoustic Levitation with Arbitrary Axes of Rotation," Eastern Illinois University, Council for Faculty Research, Fiscal Year 1995.
• Space Grant Fellowship, Tennessee Space Grant Consortium, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, January 1992 - August 1994.
• Co-investigator for the project entitled "Metallic Glass Research in Space," National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Fiscal Year 1988.
• Graduate Student Representative, Student/Faculty Advisory Committee on TA Training, University of California, Los Angeles, September 1980 - September 1981.
• Teaching Assistant of the Year, Physics Department, University of California, Los Angeles, June 1980.
• Secretary/Treasurer, Society of Physics Students, Eastern Illinois University Chapter, 1978-1979, member 1977-1978.
• Sparks Scholarship Recipient (freshman physics major that shows outstanding potential), Physics Department, Eastern Illinois University, 1975-1976.
• High School Class Valedictorian, Eldorado High School, Eldorado, Illinois, June 1975.