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Georgia Tech faculty and staff receive recognition.
Three faculty members shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their roles in sounding the warning concerning global warming and climate change. They are: School of Public Policy professor Marilyn Brown, and professor Robert Dickinson and associate professor Rong Fu, both of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
Three faculty members were selected as 2008 Sloan Research Fellows: School of Biology associate professor King Jordan and College of Computing assistant professors Nick Feamster and Adam Kalai.
Yuri Bakhtin, an assistant professor in the School of Mathematics, Adam Kalai, an assistant professor in the College of Computing, and Johnna Temenoff, an assistant professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards.
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Yuhong Fan and Francesca Storici, both assistant professors in the School of Biology; Melissa Kemp, an assistant professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Ming Yuan, an assistant professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, were selected as Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholars for 2008.
The Atlanta Chapter of the American Institute of Architects awarded its Emerging Voices Award to College of Architecture visiting instructor Edwin Akins II.
College of Architecture visiting assistant professor Tristan Al-Haddad won one of 12 commissions from the city of Atlanta to create a piece of original public art to be installed in a city park.
Professor Jean-Luc Brédas from the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry has earned the distinction of Fellow of the Materials Research Society.
Michael Cathcart, a principal research scientist in the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory, was selected as a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
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William J. Cook, Chandler Family Chair and professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, was awarded the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences for a recent book he co-authored titled The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Computational Study.
Kirk Englehardt, Georgia Tech Research Institute director of communications, and John Toon, manager of the Georgia Tech Research News & Publications Office, won a Council for the Advancement and Support of Education District III grand award in the media relations projects category for a news release entitled “Nano-Manhattan: 3-D Solar Cells.” Englehardt also won a special merit award for GTRInsider, the GTRI employee newsletter.
The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction awarded College of Computing professor Jim Foley its Lifetime Achievement Award and College of Computing professor Gregory Abowd its Social Impact Award.
Tom Fuller, director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Center for Innovative Fuel Cell and Battery Technologies and a professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, received the Research Award from the Energy Technology Division of The Electrochemical Society.
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Ken Gall, professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering and the School of Mechanical Engineering, received The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society’s (TMS) Robert Lansing Hardy Award.
Assistant professors Wendy Kelly and Christine Payne from the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry were awarded American Chemical Society PROGRESS/Dreyfus Lectureships.
Professor William Koros, the Roberto C. Goizueta Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Membranes in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, won the 2008 Alan S. Michaels Award for Innovation in Membrane Science and Technology from the North American Membrane Society.
Mindy Millard-Stafford, an associate chair in the School of Applied Physiology, is president-elect of the American College of Sports Medicine.
School of Chemistry professor Art Ragauskas was honored with the 2008 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Alternative Energy Technology.
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Assistant professor of Building Construction Kathy O. Roper was named a Fellow of The International Facility Management Association.
Preet Singh, an associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, was named a Fellow of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers.
Robert Snyder, chair of the School of Materials Science and Engineering, was selected as the recipient of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society’s (TMS) 2008 Educator Award.
Terry Sturm, professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was selected as the 2008 Engineer of the Year in Education during Georgia Engineers Week.
Naresh Thadhani, a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
The Society for Military History selected John Tone, associate dean for undergraduate studies and professor in the School of History, Technology and Society, for the 2008 Distinguished Book award in non-American history for his book, War and Genocide in Cuba.
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Assistant professor Bruce Walker of the School of Psychology was awarded the Helping Hands Service Award from the Center for the Visually Impaired.
Gleb Yushin, an assistant professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, received the Roland B. Snow Award from the American Ceramic Society.
Ellen Zegura, chair of the School of Computer Science, received the Alumni Achievement Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
– compiled by Abby Vogel
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