Dr. Hyuk Yu, Walter H. Stockmayer & Eastman Kodak Professor of Chemistry at the University
       of Wisconsin-Madison will retire at the end of 2003 calendar year, capping 37 years of distinguished
       career.  Judging from his planned activities for post-retirement years, he will scarecely be called
       "retired."

       Hyuk Yu earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1962, received his postdoctoral training at
       Dartmouth College under Prof. Walter H. Stockmayer for 1962-63, and started his research career
       at the Polymers Division of the then National Bureau of Standards, presently known as the National
       Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). After 4 years of productive research in polymers
       there, he was invited to join Chemistry Department of the University of Wisonsin, where he
       started as an assistant professor in July of 1967.  He has been with Madison campus ever since by
       rising through the ranks, except when he was awarded a Fulbright-Hays lectureship to
       spend the spring semester of 1972 in Inha University in Inchon, Korea, a Guggenheim Memorial
       Fellowship to spend the fall semester of 1984 in Mainz, Germany, and an Alexander von Humboldt
       Senior Research Award to reside at the University of Cologne for the summers of 1993 and 94.

       Hyuk Yu  for the past 37 years has been carrying the torch of international preeminence  in physical
       chemistry of macromolecules at Wisconsin, that was initiated by the late Professor J. W. Williams
       and firmly established by the late Professor John D. Ferr. He has been a worthy successor to
       the two towering figures of modern physical chemistry.  His research accomplishments ranges from
       the pioneering work on the characterization of stiff-chain macromolecules, to polymer chain
       diffusion and interfacial dynamics of amphiphiles.  He was elected to a Fellow of American Physical
       Society (APS) in 1988, awarded a Helfaer Chair  for 1991-96, High Polymer Physics Prize of APS
       in 1994, M. E. K. Mees Medal of Eastman Kodak Company and Eastman Kodak Chair in 1996,
       the Ho-Am Basic Science Prize of Samsung Foundation (currently called Ho-Am Foundation) and
       Maurice L. Huggins Memorial Award of Gordon Research Conference, Polymers (West) in 1997,
       Walter H. Stockmayer Chair  in 1998, and the Distinguished Services to Polymer Sciences Award
       of the Society of Polymer Science-Japan, and the Langmuir Lecture Award of Division of Colloid
       and Surface Chemistry of American Chemical Society in 1999.
     
       Hyuk Yu has been the longest-serving technical consultant to the Research Laboratories of
       Eastman Kodak Company by associating with them continually since 1968.  In addition, he serves
       currently as a consultant to NIST in Gaithersburg, MD, LG Chemical and DC Chemicals in
       Korea, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics in Rochester, NY, and as a member of international advisory
       boards of various scientific journals, and educational and research institutions in  Korea and
       China.

        Hyuk Yu was born in Kapsan, Hamkyungnam-do in 1933, received B.S. (chemical engineering)
        in 1955 from Seoul National University, M.S. (organic chemistry)  in 1958 from University of
        Southern Californiam M.A.  and Ph.D. (physical chemistry) in 1960 and 1962, respectively,
        from Princeton University.

        His plans starting from 2004 include, but not limited to:

            1. Teaching a special polymers course at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge during
                February and March of 2004,
            2. teaching a general chemistry course in Korea at Pohang University of Science &
                Technology, starting September of 2004, for a semester,

            3. remain as an emeritus professor in Madison campus and continue with the writing of
                research papers, and

            4. serve as one of the managing editors for the Society of Korean-American Scholars.