Newsletter Number 74 includes The Chair's Notebook - Looking to the Future; New Faculty: Paul J. Chirik and D. Tyler McQuade Join the Department as Assistant Professors; Lab Notes: New Process for Producing Near-Atomic Scale Silicon Structures - Nanobumps - Developed by Cornell Researchers; Cornell-Led Research Group Wins $19.6 Million NIH Grant to Build Biological Research Facility at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source; New Class of Rubbery Plastic Materials, with Promise of Big Economies, Produced in Lab by Cornell Researchers; Faculty News; Department News; Commencement 2001; Undergraduate Awards; Graduate Diplomas and Awards; News from Alumni and Friends; and Reunion 2001