Frank Barnes (ECE) became the first recipient of the International Communications Association's Leon Montgomery Fellow Award. He received this honor for establishing the first interdisciplinary telecommunications program at a university.
George Born (AES) received a Public Service Award from NASA for his contributions to the TOPEX/POSEIDON mission.
Christopher Bowman (ChE) was named a 1994 Presidential Faculty Fellow for "excellence and promise both in scientific and engineering research and in teaching." He was also awarded the 1993 Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award from the Rocky Mountain Section of the American Society of Engineering Education.
Xiao-Chuan Cai (CS) has been named a 1994 Presidential Young Investigator by the National Science Foundation.
Lawrence Carlson (ME) was featured on the Cable News Network for his research on improving prosthetic devices.
Stephen Carroll (Engineering Publications) received an award of Publications Excellence from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), District VII.
Steven Chapra (CEAE) was named the winner of the 1993 Rudolph Hering Medal in environmental engineering by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Robert Culp (AES) received the 1993 Dirk Brouwer Award from the American Astronautical Society.
David DiLaura (CEAE) received the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America 1994 Medal. He is serving as associate dean for Undergraduate Affairs for the 1994-95 academic year.
Martin Dunn (ME) received a National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award.
Robert Easton (App Math) is chairing Applied Mathematics this year while Mark Ablowitz is on a Faculty Fellowship.
Marc Edwards (CEAE) received the American Water Works Association's highest award for a research paper on using ozone to remove organic material from drinking water during water treatment.
Charbel Farhat (AES) received the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Structures and Materials Award for a co-authored paper. He also received the Arch T. Colwell Merit Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) for an SAE technical paper.
Dan Frangopol (CEAE) has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Tissa Illangasekare (CEAE) has been selected to serve as an associate editor for the Journal of Hydrology in the areas of quantitative hydrogeology and groundwater hydrology.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded the College and Micron Optics a 3-year, $1.86 million grant to develop higher-capacity switches for fiber-optic networks. Kristina Johnson (ECE), Jian-Yu Liu (ECE), and graduate student Anat Sneh are the primary researchers.
Last November the American Society of Mechanical Engineers presented Y.C. Lee (ME) and two co-authors with the Outstanding Paper Award for 1993.
Hon-Yim Ko (CEAE) was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education for his work with the College's 400 g-ton centrifuge.
Jean Koster (AES) was principal investigator of a fluid science experiment on the International Microgravity Laboratory, which was abroad the Columbia space shuttle in July. Other College collaborators included Sedat Biringen (AES) and about 25 undergraduate and graduate students.
Marvin Luttges (AES), a national leader in the fields of commercialization of space and adaptation of space to human use through bioprocessing, passed away April 8, 1994. He was director of the College's BioServe Space Technologies research center. He had recently received the Universities Space Research Association's Distinguished Service Award.
Roop Mahajan (ME) received an United Nations Industrial Development Organization assignment to give lectures and seminars at different laboratories and institutes on Electronics Manufacturing and Packaging.
Shankar Mahalingam (ME) received an Association of Western Universities-Department of Energy Faculty Fellowship.
Jana Milford (ME) was appointed to the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission.
George Morgenthaler (AES) has been named interim director of the College's BioServe Space Technologies research center.
Athanasios Moulakis' book, Beyond Utility: Liberal Education for a Technological Age has been selected as an Outstanding Academic Book by the American Library Association.
Richard Noble (ChE) received the Colorado Section Award from the American Chemical Society.
Joseph Pelton (ITL) co-chaired a NASA/NSF study of satellite communications for the Clinton administration.
Juan Rodriguez (ECE) was named Esprit Entrepreneur of the Decade by the Boulder Development Commission, a branch of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce.
Isidro Rubi (Minority Engineering) has been named assistant dean and director of Minority Engineering Programs. He also received the University's Equity and Excellence Award for Ethnic Plurality for his contributions to minority education.
A. Richard Seebass (AES) received a University of Colorado Medal in May. He also presented the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics the 1994 William F. Duran Lecture for Public Service.
James Sherman (Student Services) received an Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award for 1993-94 from the University's Council on Academic Advising.
A new drinking-water treatment process targeting the growing problem of nitrogen contamination in rural groundwater, directed by JoAnn Silverstein (CEAE), is being demonstrated in a one-year project in Wiggins, Colorado.
Post-doctoral researcher Mohamed Siddiqui (CEAE) received the International Ozone Association Award for research on improving the safety of drinking water.
Stein Sture (CEAE) has been selected general editor of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics of the American Society of Civil Engineers for a five year period.
Klaus Timmerhaus (ChE) was named 1993 Colorado Professor of the Year by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), based in Washington, D.C. Nationally, 390 faculty members were nominated for these awards from their respective states.
Ronald West (ChE) has been awarded a Fulbright grant to teach in Hungary this year.
H. Scott Hinton, Hudson Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.