Long-time facilities manager, Merydith Turner, received the Chairman's Excellence Award, which is the operational equivalent of the High Gain Award. The Excellence Award recognizes substantial contributions to the departmental mission and no one would argue the scope of Turner's contributions.

The ENS has been morphing for the last 7 years. During that period, Tuner has overseen

• the conversion of a closet to a reception area that eventually became the coffee shop
• innumerable moves, minor installations and maintenance
• sheet rocking the notorious ENS tiles
• moving the LRC labs to the ACA one summer only to move them back into the ENS the next
• upcoming and ongoing major renovations to the second, third, and (soon-to-begin) sixth floors