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Honors and Awards
Katherine Kuchenbecker, Skirkanich Assistant Professor of
Innovation in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics,
presented “Touch Technology,” a description of research
in haptics, at the 2012 TEDYouth conference in November.
The TEDYouth conference is a day-long event that features
speakers and hands-on activities for high school students.
David J. Srolovitz, Joseph Bordogna Professor of Engineering
and Applied Science and Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Applied
Mechanics, has been named Fellow by The Minerals,
Metals & Materials Society (TMS) “for global leadership
in theoretical and computational materials science and
groundbreaking and seminal contributions to fundamental
understanding of surface and grain boundary phenomena.”
Daeyeon Lee, Assistant Professor of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering, is the recipient of a 3M
Nontenured Faculty Award for his proposal, “Bubble-
Derived Light-Weight Materials with High Strength
and Toughness.” This award was created by the 3M
Company to support new faculty in their path to tenure.
Karen Winey, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
has been named a 2013 Materials Research Society
(MRS) Fellow for “outstanding contributions to the understanding
of polymer nanocomposites and ion-containing
polymers through rigorous and insightful experiments and
for distinguished leadership in the materials community.”
Benjamin Pierce, Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and
Information Science, has been named Fellow of the Association
for Computing Machinery (ACM) for “contributions
to the theory and practice of programming languages and
their type systems.”
Beth Winkelstein, Professor of Bioengineering and Associate
Dean for Undergraduate Education, has been named Fellow
of the American Institute for Medical and Biological
Engineering (AIMBE) for the class of 2013.
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