Biomedical Engineering

John A. Hossack received a three-year grant from the Whitaker Foundation to support his research on "Quantitative 3-D Ultrasonic Imaging for Assessment of Breast Lesions in Young Women." He was named an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (UFFC) journal.

Klaus F. Ley is collaborating with Scott Acton (ECE) on a three-year interdisciplinary grant from the Whitaker Foundation in support of research in "Advanced Biomedical Image Processing for Tracking Leokocytes In Vivo from Video Microscopy."

Markus Sperandio received travel awards from the Microcirculatory Society and from the European Society of Microcirculation to attend the World Congress of Microcirculation in Sydney, Australia, in August 2001.

Chemical Engineering

John P. O'Connell was the featured speaker on U.Va. NewsMakers. His talk, "On the Nature and Conduct of Technical Research," aired on Adelphia's Public Access.

Civil Engineering

Susan E. Burns won an award from the ASCE for her work with the organization.

Nicholas J. Garber presented an invited paper, "The Impact of Differential Speed Limits on Highway Safety," at the North American Conference on Speed Management and Implications for Public Policy. The conference was held last June in Quebec City.

Lester A. Hoel received the 2001 Wilbur Smith Distinguished Transportation Education Award, presented by the Institute of Transportation Engineers.

Cornelius O. Horgan was an invited professor at the University of Ferrara and the University of Lecce, Italy, in May/June 2001. His work in Ferrara concerned mathematical modeling of the behavior of "smart materials," while that in Lecce involved the study of large deformations of rubber-like materials. Horgan and his collaborators have recently published several refereed journal articles on this topic, the most recent of which appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, August 2001. Professor Horgan also lectured at the University of Pisa.

James A. Smith was awarded the Cavalier Distinguished Teaching Professorship through 2002.

Computer Science

Tarek F. Abdelzaher received an NSF Career Award for "A Pull-Based Architecture for Active Web Content Replication," a pioneering project that addresses current Web traffic problems and proposes an alternative architecture for on-demand Web service replication.

Andrew S. Grimshaw is founder and CTO of Avaki Corp. Avaki is involved in an Internet-scale, enterprise-class "grid" middleware platform that converges distributed, pervasive and peer-oriented computing. The platform unifies multiple work platforms in multiple locations, robustly and securely extending enterprise capabilities to the edge of the Internet.

Anita K. Jones testified before a U.S. House of Representatives science research subcommittee during a hearing on "Reinventing the Internet: Promoting Innovation in IT."

Jorg Liebeherr will receive more than $1.2 million on an NSF ITR grant shared with professors at the University of California-Berkeley, Rice University and CMU. His project involves an effort to upgrade the Internet so that time-critical applications such as controlling power plants or facilitating surgery can be performed via the Internet on a worldwide scale.

Gabriel Robins was named an associate editor for the flagship journal IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems.

Kevin Skadron received a two-year $110,000 NSF ITR award. He is collaborating with colleagues from Princeton University on a project designed to increase the execution speed of computers.

John A. Stankovic received the IEEE Real-Time Systems award for "Outstanding Technical Contributions and Leadership in Real-Time Computing."

Kevin J. Sullivan received an NSF ITR grant of more than $1.3 million over three years in support of his project to transform the way software design is conceived and taught in order to prioritize the end user¹s needs, values and point of view.

Alfred C. Weaver's work on multicast protocol work has led to the Audience Manager, a software package that monitors delivery to a mass audience.

James H. Aylor was elected chair of the National ECE Department Heads organization.

Scott Acton received a three-year grant from the Whitaker Foundation in support of his research in "Advanced Biomedical Image Processing for Tracking Leokocytes In Vivo from Video Microscopy." Klaus Ley (BME) is collaborating with him on the project.

Joanne B. Dugan received the 2001 AO Plait Award for Best Tutorial for the 2001 Rams for her tutorial "Fault Tree Analysis of Computer-Based Systems."

Materials Science and Engineering

Raul Baragiola was elected to represent the United States on the International Committee of Atomic Collisions in Solids. He gave talks at the Harvard Smithsonian and at the Max Plank Institute für Kernphysik (Heidelberg, Germany). He was the keynote speaker at the Workshop on Surface Physics in Planetary and Astrophysical Environments (Odense, Denmark) and was the plenary summary speaker at the International Conference on Ion-Surface Interactions (Zvenigorod, Russia). He gave a talk at the International Conference on Atomic Collisions in Solids (Paris).

James F. Groves received the Charles d A. Hunt Memorial Award in recognition of achievements in the field of electron beam processing technology.

James M. Howe was part of a team of engineers and scientists from McCook Metals, NASA, Lockheed Martin and U.Va. that won R&D Magazine's 100 Award Winning Technologies for 2001, for development of aluminum alloy 2098.

John R. Scully was elected as a Fellow of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers.

Edgar A. Starke was elected as a Fellow of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society.

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

J. Taylor Beard presented a three-day training program in Atlanta for medical waste incineration operators. He also organized and presented a five-day short course titled "Combustion Evaluation in Air Pollution Control."

Gabriel Laufer and Ted Sobel's company, AVIR, has pushed forward operations following September's terrorist assault on America. AVIR is developing a chemical weapons detector. The company hopes to have a prototype within a year.

Systems and Information Engineering

Donald E. Brown was selected editor-in-chief of the IEEE's Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans. He also was asked to testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on crime and drugs.

Stephanie Guerlain won a best presentation award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's subsection on health issues.

Yacov Y. Haimes was awarded the 2001 Norbert Weiner Award, the highest award presented by the IEEE-SMC, for "distinguished contributions to the theory and practice of systems engineering and risk analysis."

Division of Technology, Culture & Communication

John K. Brown received the Usher Prize from the Society for the History of Technology for his article "Design Plans, Working Drawings, National Styles: Engineering Practice in Great Britain and the U.S., 1775­1945."

Elected Fellows of the National Academy of Engineers

Elmer L. Gaden Jr. (Emeritus), ChE

Lester A. Hoel, CE

Barry M. Horowitz, SIE

Anita K. Jones, CS

Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf, MSE

Edgar A. Starke, MSE

William A. Wulf, CS (president of the Academy)

Patricia C. Click's book "Time Full of Trial: the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862­1867" was published by the University of North Carolina Press. The book is about a thriving community of escaped slaves that was established on Roanoke Island in 1863. She was a featured speaker at the national conference of the Digital Archives in American History and Culture sponsored by the National Council for the Social Studies. Her talk focused on the use of her web site (http://www.roanokefreedmenscolony.com) as a digital learning tool in secondary and college-level American history classes.

Michael E. Gorman and Matthew M. Mehalik received funding from AT&T to develop a course called "Earth Systems Engineering Management," which they will co-teach this spring with Brad Allenby.

Edmund Russell won the 2001 Forum for the History of Science in America Prize for "The Strange Career of DDT: Experts, Federal Capacity, and Environmentalism in World War II." The prize was awarded to a scholar within 10 years of the Ph.D. for the best article on the history of science in America published in 1998­2000. His newest book, "War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring," investigates intersections in the seemingly disparate histories of chemical warfare and pest control in the United States. He was featured on NPR Radio's "With Good Reason" during the summer.