May 2009
Professor Art Erdman received the President's Award for Outstanding Service, 2009. The award recognizes those who have gone well beyond their regular duties and demonstrated an unusual commitment to the University Community.
March 2009
Prof. Tianhong Cui and his Ph.D. student Dongjin Lee's paper titled "Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembled Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Based Ion-Sensitive Conductometric Glucose Biosensors" was featured on the cover of the most recent issue of IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3.
Professors Tianhong Cui and Terrence W. Simon have been awarded a research grant to develop "Active Heat Sink Technology" for the cooling of electronics using the advanced MEMS and nanotechnology. Phases I and II of this research grant from DARPA/MTO provides $3.4 million in funding over the next four years, two years with an anticipated extension of another two years.
February 2009
Professor Jane Davidson received the Ada Comstock Distinguished Women Scholars Award for Spring 2009. A public lecture and reception was held March 24, 2009 at 4 PM at Cowles Auditorium in the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Professor Davidson's topic "Solar after Dark: Going Green at Night," refelects her significant work in using solar energy to create fuels.
January 2009
Professor Al Aksan will be giving a talk to Alumni members in South Florida at the Florida Minne-College, representing IT in January. Dr. Frank Kulacki delivered a keynote address at the 4th International Conference on Thermal Engineering and Applications in Abu Dhabi on January 12, 2009. The title of his talk was "Microchannel Heat Transfer: Thermo-mechanical Limits of Heat Transfer Enhancement". The conference was held at the Petroleum Institute and was attended by 200 delegates from the EU, the US, and the Middle East. |
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