Dr Richard McCreery has been appointed a principal researcher and Ingenuity scholar at the National Institute of Nanotechnology and a professor of chemistry at the Univ of Alberta. McCreery accepted the cross-appointment and will relocate to Edmonton from Ohio State Univ, Columbus OH. He is considered a leading researcher in the field of molecular scale electronics focusing on molecular circuit components for new microelectronics technology platforms. Funding for McCreery's research comes from the National Research Council ($2.5 million), the Alberta Inge