• Manly Establishes Endowment for Excellence Manly Establishes Endowment for Excellence A consultant for the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, William D. Manly, Ph.D., of Oak Ridge, Tenn., has donated approximately $350,000 to the University of Notre Dame to establish two endowments for materials research within the College of Engineering. The first endowment of $100,000 is for the William D. Manly Award for Excellence in Materials Research. This award recognizes one undergraduate and one graduate student annually for the quality and significance of his or her work in materials science and engineering. Recipients of the first two Manly awards will be announced later this year. The second and larger portion of Manly’s gift, approximately $250,000, creates the William D. Manly Endowment for Excellence in Materials Research, and income from the endowment will be used to help defray recurring costs associated with the materials characterization facility of the new engineering building. Manly received a bachelor’s degree in metallurgy from Notre Dame in 1947, a master’s degree in 1949 -- also in metallurgy -- and was presented with an honorary doctor of engineering degree from the University in 2000.