Ramesh K. Agarwal, PhD, the William Palm Professor of Engineering, has been selected to receive two awards from SAE International: the Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson Aerospace Vehicle Design and Development Award, which recognizes Agarwal’s contributions to aerospace engineering; and the Franklin W. Kolk Air Transportation Progress Award, which recognizes Agarwal’s contributions to air transportation through activities ranging from basic research to technology transfer and commercialization, along with his technical contributions to the development of aerodynamic optimization, aeroacoustics and flight control technologies of air transportation. Agarwal will receive both awards at the SAE 2011 AeroTech Congress & Exhibition in Toulouse, France. …
William Bubelis, PhD, assistant professor of Classics in Arts & Sciences, has been named a fellow for the American Numismatic Society, a 33,000-member nonprofit education organization dedicated to educating and encouraging people to study and collect money and related items. Bubelis is an expert on economic history and numismatics. …
Da-Ren Chen, PhD, professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, has received a one-year, $45,000 subaward from Mediomics LLC for research titled “Process Analytic Technologies (PAT) for Biologics.” …
Lawrence Lenke, MD, the Jerome J. Gilden Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and co-chief of Adult/Pediatric Orthopaedic Spine Surgery, was installed as the president of the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) at the annual meeting in Kyoto, Japan. The Scoliosis Research Society is a professional organization, and its primary focus is on providing continuing medical education for health-care professionals and on funding/supporting research in spinal deformities. …
The Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology’s residency training program was named the best radiologist training program in the nation by AuntMinnie.com, a comprehensive community website for radiologists and other medical imaging professionals. Award winners are selected after two rounds of voting by editors and radiology professionals. …
Kenneth M. Olsen, PhD, assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a four-year, $533,178 Plant Genome Research Program grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Genomic Structure and Contemporary Evolution of Weediness in Red Rice.” …
Chengjie Xiong, PhD, associate professor of biostatistics and of neurology, has received a five-year, $1,619,824 grant from National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Aging for research titled “Two Preclinical Latent Scores to Predict Occurrence of Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type.”
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