| Whiting
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1996 Annual
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Electrical and Computer Engineering Geography and Environmental Engineering Materials Science and Engineering Center for Language and Speech Processing Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Chemical Propulsion Information Agency Instructional Television Facility Part-Time Programs in Engineering and Applied Science Teaching and Research Initiatives | Awards and DistinctionsWhiting School faculty and students continue to demonstrate the high level of accomplishment characteristic of engineering at Johns Hopkins. The individuals listed here received recognition between January 1, 1995 and June 30, 1996. Honored Faculty Timothy Barbari, associate professor of chemical engineering was one of ten recipients of the 1995 W.M. Keck Foundation Awards for Engineering Teaching Excellence. Only 30 engineering schools in the country were invited by the foundation to submit nominations. The awards honor faculty who are at a relatively early stage in their careers and who are already recognized as outstanding teachers. The Student Council selected several engineering faculty to receive its annual Distinguished Faculty Awards. In 1995, Gregory Chirikjian, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received the award for excellence in undergraduate research and Artin Shoukas, professor of biomedical engineering, earned the award for excellence in undergraduate advising. The 1996 award winners included Roger Ghanem, assistant professor of civil engineering, for excellence in undergraduate teaching; Cila Herman, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, for her commitment to student research; and Lawrence Schramm, professor of biomedical engineering, for his work in undergraduate advising. In addition to his Distinguished Faculty Award, Gregory Chirikjian was selected by Pi Tau Sigma and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to receive the 1996 Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal. The national award goes to a young engineer "who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering within ten years of graduation." In August 1995, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences invested Alan Goldman, professor of mathematical sciences, with its Philip McCord Morse Lectureship for 1995 through 1997. The lectureship is named after a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was a pioneer of operations research in the United States. In 1995, the Royal Geographical Society of London named David Harvey, professor of geography and environmental engineering, the recipient of the Patron's Medal for his achievements in the field of human geography. Also in 1995, Harvey won the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize for his contributions to the significant progress of geography. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation gave Alexander Kaplan, professor of electrical and computer engineering, one of its highly selective 1996 Humboldt Research Awards for Senior U.S. Scientists. The award allows Kaplan to visit a research institute of his choice in Germany for one year. Jerome Kruger, professor part-time of materials science and engineering, was selected by The Electrochemical Society to receive its 1995 Olin Palladium Medal for his accomplishments in electrochemical science and technology. The Association of Environmental Engineering Professors gave Charles O'Melia, professor of geography and environmental engineering, its 1995 Founders Award, which recognizes "sustained and outstanding contributions to the environmental engineering profession." The Linear Complementarity Problem, a book co-authored by Jong-Shi Pang, professor of mathematical sciences, won the 1994 Lancaster Prize awarded by the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science. The prize recognizes the best published contribution in operations research in the English language. In 1995, the Office of Naval Research selected Carey Priebe, assistant professor of mathematical sciences, and Reza Shadmehr, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, to receive prestigious Young Investigator Awards. Lenore Cowen, assistant professor of mathematical sciences, was the Whiting School's 1996 recipient of the same award. Charles ReVelle, professor of geography and environmental engineering, won the 1995 Constantine Porphyrogenetus Society's Agamemnon Award. The award recognizes ReVelle's "contribution to the fields of environmental management and decision making." In 1996, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science's Section on Location Analysis honored Revelle with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Edward Scheinerman, professor of mathematical sciences, was selected as an associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly. He will work with Roger Horn, a former Hopkins mathematical sciences professor, who is the publication's editor-in-chief. In 1995, Eugene Shchukin, research professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, received the title of Professor Emeritus of the Moscow University. In 1996, William Sharpe, professor and chair of mechanical engineering, received the M.M. Frocht Award from the Society for Experimental Mechanics. The award recognizes Sharpe's "outstanding achievement as an educator in the field of experimental mechanics." In 1995, Nitish Thakor and Eric Young, professors of biomedical engineering, were selected as fellows in the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers. Chesapeake Appreciation, Inc. selected M. Gordon "Reds" Wolman, professor of geography and environmental engineering, to receive its 1995 Rachel Carson Award for his "significant contributions to the preservation and heritage of the Chesapeake Bay." Also in 1995, the American Geophysical Union recognized Wolman's 40-year career during its spring meeting. Oustanding Students Biomedical engineering undergraduates Paul DiCamillo and Irfan Qureshi won Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Awards for 1996-97. Qureshi also received a Hughes Fellowship, which allowed him to pursue a summer research project. Neil Durant, a graduate student in geography and environmental engineering, won a 1996 Graduate Student Award from the American Chemical Society's Division of Environmental Chemistry. Laura Ehlers, a graduate student in geography and environmental engineering, was one of 100 students out of a pool of 2,500 nominees to receive a 1995 Environmental Protection Agency Graduate Fellowship. John Elfar, a biomedical engineering senior, won a spot on the second team of the 1996 USA Today's All USA College Academic Team. As one of his achievements, Elfar developed a mathematical model to assess research on the desensitization rate of recombinant NMDA channels in brain cells. Biomedical engineering graduate student Matthew Fishler received an award for his paper given at the 1995 meeting of the International Society of Computerized Electrocardiography. Lai Gui, a graduate student in geography and environmental engineering, was a co-winner of the 1996 ACS Agrochemicals Division Young Scientist Predoctoral Research Award. Susan Kutcher, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, won a prize for the best student paper presented at the 1995 American Crystal Growth Association's national meeting. Biomedical engineering graduate student Smadar Lapidot received a certificate of merit from the Young Investigator Day Committee, which administers the most prestigious academic awards for young researchers at the School of Medicine. The Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation selected materials science and engineering graduate students Peter Martin and Todd Trimble as 1995 and 1996 scholars, respectively. Cameron Riviere, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, won second prize for his paper presented at the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society's meeting. |