Faculty & Staff Notes

FACULTY & STAFF NOTES

AWARDS

Hugh Barnaby and Xiaowei Zhu, graduate students in electrical engineering and computer science in the School of Engineering, have received scholarships from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. Students were judged on the basis of their scholarship, research projects and work experience. The awards consist of $500 and a one-year paid membership in NPSS.

Christie

William G. Christie, dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management, has been named to the National Association of Securities Dealers' Economic Advisory Board.

Colleen Conway-Welch, dean of the School of Nursing and professor of nursing, has been named to the board of directors for Get Well Centers.

Thomas Cruse, the H. Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, emeritus, and Sankaran Mahadevan associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, were members of a team that received a Next-Generation Design Tools Award from NASA. They received the award for participating in a 10-year Probabilistic Structural Analysis Methods program. This was a major effort to introduce computational reliability methods within the aerospace industry. Other team members came from NASA, Boeing, Dynacs Engineering and Modern Technology Corp., and a number of universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, University of Michigan and Tennessee State University.

Deborah C. German, senior associate dean for medical education in the School of Medicine, was named the 2000 winner of the Athena Award. The annual award goes to a woman who has demonstrated achievement in leadership and business.

PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

Tomlinson Fort, Centennial Professor of Chemical Engineering, gave four invited lectures at CETMIC (Centro de Tecnologica de Recursos Minerales y Ceramica) and at the Argentine Institute for Atomic Energy Research, in LaPlata and Buenos Aires, Argentina, this past May. In July, he lectured at the 10th International Congress on Colloid and Interface Science held in Bristol, England. All the talks dealt with his research on surfactant-driven water movement in wet unsaturated porous media.

Hodges

T. Mark Hodges, professor of medical administration, emeritus, and former director of the Eskind Biomedical Library, presented an invited paper at the Eighth International Congress on Medical Librarianship, held in London, July 2-5 on "National networks to global group; the world's health sciences library community in Y2K." More than 1,400 health science librarians from 80 countries around the world attended the Congress. The ninth congress will be held in Sao Paolo, Brazil, in 2005.

Larry LeBlanc, professor of management (operations management), has four papers soon to appear in Interfaces, International Journal of Technology Management and Ricerca Operativa. LeBlanc has been invited to give seminars this summer at the University of Padova, Italy, on management sciences in spreadsheets.

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Patricia A. Pierce, director of the Opportunity Development Center, presented a paper titled "Sex & Power in the Workplace: A U.S. Perspective" at theGeneva 2000 Forum held June 22-30. The forum was a parallel meeting with the United Nations General Assembly's Special Session on the Implementation of the Outcome of the 1995 World Summit for Social Development.

Wikswo

John P. Wikswo, A.B. Learned Professor of Living State Physics, presented an invited talk titled "The Challenges of Spatial Scales inModeling and Understanding Cardiac Fibrillation" at the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, and the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society that was held in Chicago July 23-28, 2000.

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