Awards
- Tam Vu says the award will help him "innovate and develop a next generation of wearable devices to improve humans鈥 cognitive function and well-being from around and inside their ears."
- She is one of only five women in the world, and the only recipient in North America, to receive the recognition this year.
- Karl Linden of environmental engineering has been selected to receive the Borchardt-Glysson Water Treatment Innovation Prize.
- The National Academy of Engineering has officially elected Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences professor Penina Axelrad as a new member.Election to the prestigious academy is among the highest professional distinctions bestowed upon an
- Undergraduate Stacy Hayes and graduate student Jen Peyrot have both received a prestigious SWSIS award 鈥 only 16 were given out this year 鈥 that grants at least $5,000 to each winner.
- Her research examines how honeybee swarms interact through communication mechanisms such as 鈥渨aggle dancing鈥 and other types of signaling to make decisions that maximize their foraging yield.
- Five undergraduate engineering programs ranked in top 20 for 2020.
- A bright future for combustion research, Rieker receives Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher AwardAssociate Professor Greg Rieker has been awarded two of the top international awards in his field. After receiving the Peter Werle Early Career Scientist Award in September 2018, he was selected to receive the Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award in April 2019.
- Distinguished Professor Chris Bowman is donating his lab's royalties from a patent toward the formation of a new endowed faculty position.
- John Mah has earned two teaching awards in the past two months, and reading comments from his students, it鈥檚 not hard to see why.鈥淗e taught with such enthusiasm and expertise that even the most uninterested student would listen.鈥 鈥 Grace Edwards鈥