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School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Assistant Professor Andrew Lyon has been awarded a Beckman Young Investigator Award. This is one of the most prestigious awards a young scientist can receive. The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation is an independent, non-profit foundation that supports basic scientific research, primarily in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry and medicine. The Young Investigator awards are given to honor and encourage young scientists who are conducting their research programs at prominent universities and research institutes nationwide.


School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor Emmanouil M. Tentzeris received a 2000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award “for novel multiresolution time-domain schemes for the adaptive analysis and design of high-frequency circuits and packaging structures.” This award has also been formerly known as both the Presidential Young Investigator Award and National Young Investigator Award.


Professor Emeritus Aubrey Bush has been named division director for the National Science Foundation’s Division of Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering. Within the Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research Division, there are two basic research programs and one experimental facility program. The research programs support research in the technical areas relevant to understanding the global information infrastructure and to establishing the basis for future advancements. The Advanced Networking Infrastructure program develops and enables the use of experimental advanced networks in broad support of the research and education community.


Counseling Center

Scott Friedman, director of the Counseling Center, has been selected to participate in Harvard’s prestigious Management Development Program this June. College administrators from around the country participate in an intensive two-week program focusing on effective leadership, innovation and change, planning, diversity and community, financial management and professional development of staff.


Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

Assistant Professor Daniel Baldwin was elected to the Board of Advisors for the Association for Electronics Manufacturing of the Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME). SME is the world’s largest professional society serving the manufacturing industries.


Chris Lynch, assistant professor, has received the New Mechanics Educator Award for exceptional contributions to mechanics education from the Mechanics Division of the American Society for Engineering Education.


Georgia Tech Research Institute

Krishan Ahuja was named Engineer of the Year for 2000 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Previously, Ahuja was named AIAA Region II Engineer of the Year (Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi). A Regents’ researcher in the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Aerospace, Transportation and Advanced Systems Laboratory, Ahuja also is a professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering.


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