Biomedical Engineering

Brett R. Blackman received a grant from the Atorvastatin Research Award Program sponsored by Pfizer Inc. for his work "Heterogeneity in Signaling Adaptation of Human Endothelial Cells in Response to Human Hemodynamic Forces: A Proteomics Approach."

Craig H. Meyer and Brett R. Blackman received Whitaker Foundation research grants. Meyer's project is "Rapid Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Myocardial Ischemia." Blackman's project is "Adaptive Heterogeneity of Human Endothelial Cells Exposed to Human Arterial and Venous Hemodynamic Shear Forces."

Chemical Engineering

John L. Hudson's research was featured on the covers of the Journal of Physical Chemistry and the AIChE Journal in 2003.

Giorgio Carta served on the organizing committee of the 2003 International Preparative Chromatography Symposium, held in San Francisco.

Robert J. Davis lectured at the Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute on Materials for Energy Conversion and Environmental Protection, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in October.

Erik J. Fernandez serves as programming coordinator for the American Chemical Society biochemical technology division.

Matthew Neurock delivered keynote lectures at international conferences in Germany, Mexico and Puerto Rico.

John O'Connell was awarded the Gulbenkian Visiting Professorship at the Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon, Portugal, during fall 2003.

Civil Engineering

Susan E. Burns received a visiting appointment to the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems within the College of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at the University of Western Australia.

Nicholas J. Garber was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He was awarded the Edmund R. Ricker Transportation Safety Award for individuals for his contributions to advance highway safety as a researcher and educator.

Brian L. Smith was recognized by the Council of University Trans-portation Centers as the out- standing new faculty member in transportation in 2003.

Computer Science

Tarek F. Abdelzaher was appointed technical program chair of the 10th IEEE Real-time Technology and Applications Symposium. He was appointed associate editor of the Journal of Real-time Systems, and appointed editor of the ACM SIGBED Newsletter.

Jack W. Davidson was elected to the executive board of the Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Programming Languages. He served as a member of the organizing committees for the 2003 Federated Computing Research Conference and the 2004 International Conference on Compilers, Architecture and Synthesis for Embedded Systems. He is a member of the program committee of the 2003 Inter-national Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques.

Thomas B. Horton is general chair of the 17th IEEE Computer Society Conference on Software Engineer-ing Education and Training, held in Norfolk, Va., in March.

Martin A. Humphrey's work was one of the four projects chosen out of 800 projects to highlight Microsoft's recent Faculty Summit.

Greg Humphreys' work was featured in the February issue of Linux World magazine, and Silicon Graphics Inc. issued a press release announcing that it will be using his work as a major part of their strategy for cluster rendering.

Jorg Liebeherr was elected chair of the Technical Committee on Computer Communications in the IEEE Communications Society for 2004-2005.

David Luebke's "Scanning Monticello" project was showcased in a museum exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art. A piece from that exhibition is now on display in the U.Va. Rotunda.

Kevin Sullivan was invited by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to run a series of workshops on the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate's crosscutting research theme, "The Science of Design."

John A. Stankovic will be the general chair for SenSys 2004, a major conference on wireless sensor systems, to be held in November 2004.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Travis Blalock co-authored a book titled Microelectronic Circuit Design (Second Edition).

Joanne Bechta Dugan received the Harriett B. Rigas 2003 Frontiers in Education Award of the IEEE Education Society, in recognition of her contribution to the engineering profession.

Tatiana Globus won an award from Goodrich Corp. for "Biological Agent Simulant Data Collection."

Gang Tao authored a book titled Adaptive Control: Design and Analysis.

Malathi Veeraraghavan won an NSF Experimental Infrastructure Network grant to implement an optical testbed, and to develop the protocols and software needed to support the Terascale Supernova Initiative, a major e-science project. She and her students recently received the Best Paper award at the Optical Networking Conference.

Materials Science & Engineering

Richard P. Gangloff was appointed an external member of the Problem Resolution Team (Materials) of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center. This group was formed recently at the Langley (Va.) Research Center and will guide future NASA-wide responses to issues of materials degradation in space structures.

Robert G. Kelly was selected as the U.S. editor for Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology, an Institute of Materials (UK) publication. Rob is also assisting in the selection of materials for the Pentagon 9/11 memorial.

John R. Scully was appointed to the Defense Science Board on Corrosion Control. This group is charged with the responsibility of recommending strategies to reduce the substantial costs, drain on operational readiness, and safety concerns suffered by the military due to corrosion.

Haydn Wadley was elected chair of the Defense Science Research Council.

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Hilary Bart-Smith was awarded a fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The foundation received 99 nominations from 50 invited universities, from which the Packard Advisory Panel selected 16 fellows nationwide. The five-year fellowship began in October 2003. Her research interests are in ultralight materials, morphing structures and polymer composites. She was also recently selected as a U.Va. teaching fellow.

Science, Technology, and Society (formerly Technology, Culture and Communications)

Rosalyn W. Berne and William A. Wulf (CS) were quoted in a Richmond Times-Dispatch article headlined "The World in Tiny Pieces/Nanotechnology Engineers Will Face the Same Ethical Concerns as Other Sciences."

Patricia C. Click was featured in an online chat sponsored by the online Civil War Search Directory www.civilwarsearch.com. She answered questions related to the research she conducted for her recent book, Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867, and responded to queries about her Web site, www.roanokefreedmens
colony.com.

Michael G. Gorman was appointed a Sigma XI lecturer.

Deborah G. Johnson was quoted in The Scientist in an article headlined "Engineers Consider Ethics/New Technologies Melding Biology with Machines Create New Dilemmas." She and William A. Wulf (CS) were quoted in an EETimes article titled "Rising Technologies an Ethical Pandora's Box for Engineers."

Kay A. Neeley received the Sterling Olmstead Award for 2003 from the liberal education division of the American Society for Engineering Education for her outstanding contributions to engineering education.

Edmund P. Russell III received the Edelstein Prize from the Society for the History of Technology for War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring.

Kathryn C. Thornton was the subject of a Richmond Times-Dispatch article titled "Journey Farther, Says Space Walker." Thornton, a former astronaut whose final mission was in 1995 as the payload commander aboard Columbia, logged 975 hours in space, including 31 hours of space walking. She flew her first mission as a specialist in 1989, making one of the early night launches on board the space-shuttle Discov-ery, and assisted in a shuttle service call to the Hubble space telescope.

Systems and Information Engineering

Peter A. Beling was made vice president of publications for the IEEE SMC Society, and he also ran a workshop for Credit Risk Modeling in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Michael D. DeVore won research awards from Raytheon and the Office of Naval Research.

Alfredo Garcia won two research awards from NSF for "Security of Supply and Strategic Learning in Power Markets" and "Complex Network Optimization."

Stephanie A. E. Guerlain, working with colleagues at Ohio State University and Petrobras, a Brazilian industrial partner, has started an internationally funded project that provides for a supervised exchange of 20 systems and industrial engineering undergraduate students between two Brazilian and two American universities over a four-year period. The students will learn the language and culture of the partner country, while developing competencies in human factors, ergonomics, and cognitive engineering as applied to the petrochemical domain. The program will form the basis for cognitive engineering research in Brazil, and give students skills in designing for high-risk and complex systems.

Yacov Haimes (PI), Barry M. Horowitz (Co-PI) and James H. Lambert (Co-PI) won two awards from NSF: "InputOutput Risk Model of Critical Infrastructure Systems" and "Risk-Based Methodological Framework for Scenario Tracking and Intelligence Collection and Analysis for Terrorism."