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The National Institute of Materials Sciences ranks
Z. L. Wang’s paper, “Microfibre–Nanowire Hybrid
Structure for Energy Scavenging,” was published in Nature, Feb. 2008 issue. He was interviewed by over 20 media including Voice of America, BBC, NBC, PBC, National Geographic... Preet Singh has been named a Fellow of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE-International).
Renita Washington received the 2008 Outstanding Staff Performance Awards. Laura Cerully was selected as the ASM Atlanta Chapter Outstanding Graduate Student. Dr. Z. L. Wang and Dr. Xudong Wang selected to share a Sigma Xi Best Paper Award. Mark Tschopp
(former student) selected as one of the winners for the Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Awards, Dave McDowell was Mark’s advisor. Dr. Valeria Milam received the CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. Dr. Z. L. Wang received the Faculty Best Paper Award. Teresa Nelson received her Ten Year Service Award. Naresh Thadhani has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Vladimir Tsukruk and his group won the Grand Prize in the 2007 Pioneering Nanotechnology Competition sponsored by Masscal Scientific Instructments on his proposal, “Combinatorial Screening of Plasma Polymer Nanocoatings for Responsive Layers in Highly Sensitive and Agile Microcantilever Sensors.” Xudong Wang an MSE post-doc received a TR35 2007 Young Innovator award . Technology Review honors young technology and science innovators under the age of 35 whose inventions and research they find most exciting. Z. L. Wang’s nanogenerators was selected by the editors of R&D Magazine and MICRO/NANO Newsletter as one of the most innovative products of 2007 in their inaugural MICRO/NANO 25 Competition. Gleb Yushin received Roland B. Snow Award from the American Ceramic Society. Welcome Parmeet Grover as a new External Advisory Board Member. Conference room 295 is now the newly dedicated MedShape Solutions Inc. Conference Room. Bob Snyder was selected as the recipient of the TMS 2008 Educator Award for his outstanding contributions to materials science and engineering education. The presentation of the award will be made at the awards dinner during the TMS annual meeting in New Orleans, on March 11, 2008. Ken Gall received the TMS Hardy Award. Meisha Shofner was selected to receive one of the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards. These awards provide money for research by junior faculty at Oak Ridge Associated Universitites (ORAU) member institutions. They are intended to enrich the research and professional growth of young faculty and result in new funding opportunities. C. P. Wong received the 2007 Sigma Xi Monie A. Ferst Award. The Award is given annually to an educator in engineering or science who has made "notable contributions to the motivation and encouragement of research through education." Its purpose is to "recognize significant contributions to scientific research by an educator in engineering or science." It consists of a medal and $5,000 and is made annually to an educator who has inspired his or her colleagues to significant scientific achievements. Rao Tummala received the 2007 IEEE David Feldman Award, given by the IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology (CPMT) Society. The David Feldman Award, the highest honor given by IEEE/CPMT, recognizes outstanding contributions to the fields encompassed by the Society through executive or managerial directions . He is being recognized for the breadth of his contributions to IEEE/CPMT in numerous leadership roles and their global impact, including his unprecedented two terms as the Society's president. Vladimir Tsukruk and C. Jiang article, “Freestanding Nanostructures via Layer-by-Layer Assembly” was the second most cited article in 2006 in the Journal of Advanced Materials. Return to top
Georgia Centers of Innovation Award Brent Carter received a Georgia Centers of Innovation award for the project, "Regenerative Sorbent System Solutions for Logistics Fuels Desulphurization, with Bob Snyder as the Co-PI. This state grant is funded by the OneGeorgia program and matches funds coming from the Air Force through nGimat (Georgia Tech is a subcontractor). Tech will receive $50k from each source over two years with no overhead. (The picture to the right was taken in Warm Springs on January 30, 2007 at the OneGeorgia Board meeting.) Bob Snyder was honored with an invitation to be a member of the Scientific Committee of the University of Trento, Italy . This committee, composed of distinguished senior scholars, give the Rector an independent assessment of the graduate degree programs at the University and make recommendations regarding their further development. Rick Neu and Dave McDowell along with two former Ph.D. students (Mahesh Shenoy and Ali Gordon) were presented the 2006 ASME Orr Best Paper Award for the paper: "Thermomechanical Fatigue Behavior of a Directionally Solidified Ni-base Superalloy," Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Vol. 127, July 2005, pp. 325-336. The award is sponsored by the Materials Division of ASME. The editors of the Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology identified the paper as the best fatigue and fracture paper to appear in the journal within the twelve-month period July 2005 through June 2006. Z. L. Wang has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He is honored for seminal contributions to the discovery, synthesis, understanding and applications of novel one-dimensional nanomaterials. Jonathan Simons has been appointed CEO and President of the Prostate Cancer Foundation in Los Angeles , the world’s largest philanthropic source of support for prostate cancer research. Evelyn DeLiso joined our 2006-2007 External Advisory Board. Steve Johnson was promoted to Fellow of the American Society for Composites. (2006) Ken Gall’s new shape memory polymer based device for ACL reconstruction was selected as honorable mention in the Modern Marvels Invention competition on the History channel. Honorable mention implies a member of the top 100 inventions out of 4200 submissions. (2006) Congratulations to Ken Sandhage, Mike Weatherspoon, Mike Haluska, Yi Cai and Eric Ernst on receiving 2nd Place Best Paper Award at the 30th International Cocoa Beach Conference on Advance Ceramics and Composites for the second year in a row. (2006) Congratulations to Vladimir Tsukruk on receiving the NSF Special Creativity Award . This award is designed to offer the most creative investigators an extended opportunity to attack adventurous, 'high-risk' opportunities in the same general research area, but not necessarily covered by the original/current proposal. (2006) C.P. Wong, hailed as the Father of Modern Semiconductor Packaging, has been honored with the 2006 IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Award. C.P. is an industry legend who fundamentally changed semiconductor packaging technology, pioneering new materials ranging from polymers to nano-technologies. His profound affect on these fields has led to this honor. Sponsored by the IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society, the award recognizes meritorious contributions to the advancement of components, electronic packaging or manufacturing technologies and will be presented to Prof. Wong on June 1 at the 56th IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference in San Diego, California. Click here for more on Prof. Wong's contributions and award. Z. L. Wang was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).This recognition is “For his discovery of nanobelts, pioneering the field of controlled synthesis of oxide nanostructures, and developing innovative techniques for measuring the physical properties of individual nanowires/nanobelts/nanotubes using in-situ TEM.” Election to Fellowship of the APS is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the membership and is a recognition by peers of his outstanding contributions to physics. Ken Sandhage was appointed to the National Materials Advisory Board. Brent Carter was chosen as the Georgia Tech Outstanding Undergraduate Academic Faculty Advisor . He also received the first “Friends of Student Affairs Award.” Ken Gall is the recipient of the 2006 ASM International Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers . This award , measured through teaching evaluations and peer reviews, is given to teachers for their ability to impart knowledge and enthusiasm to students. David McDowell was chosen as the 2005 Jack M. Ziegler (BME 1948) Outstanding Educator in the Woodruff School for his contributions to education and teaching. McDowell expressed his philosophy as being simple, but based on experience. Everyone has the seed to be world-class at something. Some realize this, and some don’t. Some believe it and some don’t. Some discover it and some don’t. This is a great mystery of being human. A place like Georgia Tech can liberate those dreams buried in imagination and can offer their transformation to reality. But it is hard work. It is up to the student to identify and pursue their strengths. In this, an educator can play a crucial role. Valeria Milam was named a Georgia Cancer Coalition Scholar. The Georgia Cancer Coalition established the Distinguished Cancer Clinicians and Scientists program with the goal to recruit leading and nationally renowned cancer clinicians and scientists who are engaged in the most promising areas of cancer research. The award brings with it an annual fund of $50,000 in support of her research program. Valeria also received the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence. The Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada awarded Preet Singh the I. H. Weldon Award for best paper from all of their conferences for the 2004 year. Congratulations to Rina Tannenbaum on receiving Tenure. Z. L. Wang received the 2005 Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Sustained Research Award and Fellow, World Innovation Foundation. Dr. Wang also received the Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Research Author Award. This award is presented to the faculty member who most contributed to the publication of refereed articles describing the results of research conducted at Georgia Tech during the period of January 2000 to December 2004. C. P. Wong received the 2006 IEEE Technical Achievement Award for his contributions in advanced polymeric materials science and processes for highly reliable electronic packages. This is the highest award from the IEEE CPMT Society which comes with a medal, plaque and $10,000. Min Zhou was promoted to Full Professor and has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Will Hughes received the STEP Fellowship for Summer 2005 through Spring 2006. Karen Hutcheson received the 2005 Georgia Tech Outstanding Staff Performance Award. Z. L. Wang was selected for the Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Research Author Award. This award is presented to the faculty member who most contributed to the publication of refereed articles describing the results of research conducted at GT during the period of January 2000 to Dec. 2004. Z. L. Wang paper , "Spontaneous polarization-induced nanohelixes, nanosprings, and nanorings of piezoelectric nanobelts" as published in the journal "NONO LETTERS 3"in DEC 2003, has been recently acknowledged by Thomson-ISI® to be one of the most cited papers in the field of MATERIALS SCIENCE.
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