Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Researcher His family and friends have endowed the Poe Memorial Award for outstanding Graduate Research. Poe Substation which is in downtown Riverside. The City of Riverside honored him with the naming of the Robert T. National Taiwan University honored him with a building, The Robert T. It was on a trip to Taiwan that he sadly passed away due to a heart attack. He was also involved in the construction of the first synchrotron and the setting up of an Atomic Physics research group at National Taiwan University. During the energy crisis of the 1970's he helped the City of Riverside and even countries such as Taiwan plan for the future. He had a passion for energy conservation. He was a true public servant who devoted much time to activities outside research and teaching. He was one of the founding members of the Physics Department and initiated the research program in Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics. Professor Poe came from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and joined the faculty at UCR in 1964.
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