Matthew R. Begley (Civil Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering) published a paper in the Institute of Physics (IOP) Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.

Toby Berger (Electrical & Computer Engineering) was named one of the newest members of the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to the theory and practice of lossy data compression. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.

Berger joined the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in January 2006 after serving on the faculty at Cornell from 1968–2005. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a past president of the IEEE Information Theory Group and a past editor-in-chief of the IEEE publication Transactions on Information Theory. He is also a Life Member of both Tau Beta Pi and the IEEE.

Maite Brandt-Pearce (Electrical & Computer Engineering) recently returned from a sabbatical in the south of France where she taught a class at the prestigious Eurecom research institute.

Michael J. Demetsky (Civil Engineering) is the 2005 American Society of Civil Engineer’s Harland Bartholomew award winner. The award was given in recognition of his contributions to raising the stature of the civil engineer in urban planning and development through excellence in teaching and research. His major contributions have been in the area of transportation planning, particularly mass transit systems, non-motorized transportation, goods movements and applications of advanced technologies. He was also awarded the status of life membership in ASCE with appreciation for a lifetime of dedication and service to the profession of civil engineering.

Carl T. Herakovich (Civil Engineering, Emeritus) was presented the ASME 2005 Applied Mechanics Division Award in recognition of his distinguished contributions to mechanics of fibrous composite materials, and his distinguished service to the mechanics and engineering science community.

Cornelius O. Horgan (Civil Engineering) has made fundamental advances in the mathematical modeling of limiting chain extensibility at the molecular level and its implications for constitutive laws for strain-stiffening rubber-like materials. He presented invited colloquium lectures at Stanford University and at the University of California, Berkeley, in March 2006. His work has numerous applications in engineering ranging from rubber vibration isolators for structures to modeling of soft biological tissues.

Robert Johnson (Engineering Physics) who worked on a study of geysers, investingating why they appear only in the southern hemisphere. He was quoted March 13 in a Albuquerque Journal article headlined: "Saturn Moon May Feed Its Ring" By Sue Vorenberg of the Albuquerque Journal / March 13

Richard W. Kent (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering) received the 2005 Best Scientific Paper of the Year from the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. His paper is entitled "On the Fatal Crash Experience of Older Drivers."

James H. Lambert (Systems & Information Engineering) was an invited speaker at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop “Risk Management Tools for Port Security, Critical Infrastructure, and Sustainability” in Venice, Italy, in March 2006.

Cato T. Laurencin (Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering), University Professor with appointments in BME and ChE, and the Lillian T. Pratt Distinguished Professor and chair of orthopaedic surgery, received the Nicolas Andry Award from the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons. This is the highest award from this association and one of the most important orthopaedic surgery intended to recognize work that has contributed significantly to orthopaedic surgery knowledge and practice.

In addition, Dr. Laurencin recently received the Clemson Award from the Society for Biomaterials in recognition of his lifetime contributions to the Biomaterials Literature.

Dr. Laurencin is an International Fellow in Biomaterials Science and Engineering, and member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Klaus F. Ley (Biomedical Engineering) was appointed a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society for national and international contributions to biomedical engineering and for inspired leadership in BMES. In 2005, he was the plenary speaker at the ATVB national conference, section editor for the Journal of Immunology and on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. He recently received an NIH grant.

A paper by Garrick E. Louis (Systems & Information Engineering) titled “A Flexible Inventory Model for Municipal Solid Waste Recycling” was among the top 25 articles within the journal of Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. Louis was also selected for an AAAS Diplomacy Fellowship.

Peter D. Norton (Science, Technology & Society) received the first annual Thomas E. Hutchinson Faculty Award from the Trigon Engineering Society in December, 2005. Norton, who teaches courses on the history of technology, received the award in honor of his dedication and excellence in teaching.

Four other finalists for the award were also honored: Milton Adams, BME; N. Scott Barker, ECE; David Evans, CS, and John Lach, ECE.

The award, given annually to one SEAS faculty member, is named in honor of U.Va. Professor Thomas E. Hutchinson, who served as faculty advisor to the Trigon Society for many years. Trigon was established in 1924 as a political organization in the Engineering School and evolved over the years into a socially-oriented brotherhood that includes both men and woman. Trigon unites engineering students in service projects for both the University and the Charlottesville community and encourages them to make the most of their time at the University.

Michael L. Reed (Electrical & Computer Engineering) co-authored and published a paper in the Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing journal, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/JMM). The paper, "The evolution from convex corner undercut towards microneedle formation: theory and experimental verification," appears in the current online edition and is freely available at the following link: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/-ffissn=0960-1317/-ff30=all/0960-1317/16/4/018.

U.Va. Professors Mircea Stan (Electrical & Computer Engineering), John Bean (Electrical & Computer Engineering), and Lloyd Harriott (Electrical & Computer Engineering), and graduate students Garrett Rose, Adam Cabe, Nadine Gergel-Hackett and Nabanita Majumdar with Yuxing Yao and James Tour of Rice University, co-authored a paper titled "Design approaches for hybrid CMOS/molecular memory based on Experimental Device Data" which received the best-paper award at GLSVLSI 2006.

Kevin J. Sullivan (Computer Science) is serving as an expert in a study commissioned by Assistant Secretary of the Army Claude Bolton on research needed to enable the development of ultra-large scale software-intensive systems. The study is run by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

Alfred C. Weaver (Computer Science) won an award to start a new course titled “Trustworthy Computing.” The course will teach a new generation of students how to write software based upon Web services that enforces data privacy and security. He has also won a contract from Aerospace Corporation to devise new algorithms that can efficiently update worldwide distributed data and apply some of the lessons learned from medical data privacy and security to the world of intelligence data. This summer, Weaver will run year two of our NSF-funded REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program. Our focus area is "Computer Applications for Medicine."

For more information on faculty research see the Faculty Notes section of the Spring 2006 University of Virginia Engineering Magazine.