Major Scholarly Accomplishments
George R. Brown School of Engineering, 2008-2009
Bioengineering
Kyriacos Athanasiou Thomas A. Edison Patent Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Gold winner in the Wall Street Journal Innovation Awards competition
Michael Diehl 2009 Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology (HSEMB)
2008 Research Excellence Award, W.M. Keck Foundation
Rebekah Drezek Adolph Lomb Medal awarded by the Optical Society of America for noteworthy contributions to optics before the age of 35
Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
2008 Presidential Mentoring Award, Rice University
2008 Charles W. Duncan, Jr. Achievement Award for Outstanding Faculty, Rice University
Jane Grande-Allen 2008 Hamill Innovation Award, with Jun Lou
2009 Presidential Mentoring Award, Rice University
Oleg Igoshin NSF CAREER Award
Jianpeng Ma Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Tony Mikos 2009 Chemstations Lectureship Award, American Society for Engineering Education
Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., Excellence in Research Award, Baylor College of Medicine
Rebecca Richards-Kortum Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2008 IEEE Vice President’s Recognition Award
Elected Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society
2008 IMPACT Award, Women’s Resource Center, Rice University
Ann Saterbak Elected Chair, Professional Interest Council II, American Society for Engineering Education
Junghae Suh 2008 Hamill Innovation Award, with Jonathan Silberg
Tomasz Tkaczyk 2008 IBB Medical Innovations Award, with Dr. Mary Dickinson
Jennifer West Elected Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Pedro Alvarez 2008 Malcolm Pirnie/Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Frontier in Research Award
Fellow of the American Leadership Forum
Philip B. Bedient 2008 Diplomate - Water Resources Engineer, American Academy of Water Resources Engineers
Daniel Cohan NSF CAREER Award
Jamie Padgett Selected as one of 14 “best and brightest new faces” in engineering under the age of 30, by the National Engineers Week Foundation
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Ken Cox 2008 C.M. and Demaris Hudspeth Award for Student Life and Student Clubs, Rice University
Matteo Pasquali 2009 GSA Faculty Teaching/Mentoring Award, Rice University
Michael Wong 2008 IBB Medical Innovations Award, with Dr. Ching H. Tung
Computational and Applied Mathematics
William Symes Elected Fellow of SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Richard Tapia HispanicBusiness, 100 Influentials 2008
Elected Fellow of SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Meritorious Service Award, Association of Rice Alumni
Wotao Yin 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship
NSF CAREER Award
Computer Science
Lydia Kavraki 2008 Hamill Innovation Award, with George Bennett
Elected Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Luay Nakhleh Phi Beta Kappa 2009 Teaching Prize, Rice University
Eugene Ng 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship
Vivek Sarkar Elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Walid Taha NSF CAREER Award
Moshe Vardi 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal for Computer Science, European Academy of Sciences
Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2008 Association for Computing Machinery PODS Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award
2008 ACM SIGMOD Codd Innovation Award
2008 ACM Presidential Award
Editor-in-chief, Communications of the ACM
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Richard Baraniuk Berkman Award for Internet Innovation, Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society
C. Sidney Burrus 2009 Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Joseph Cavallaro Best Paper Award at the IEEE System on Chip Conference, September 2008, with Yang Sun
Best Paper Award at the IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, September 2008, with Yang Sun
Naomi Halas Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow, Department of Defense
Research Excellence Award, University of Pennsylvania’s Nano/Bio Interface Center
Edward Knightly Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Best Paper Award, ACM MobiCom 2008, with Justin Robinson
Junichiro Kono Andrew Heiskell Innovation in Study Abroad Award for NanoJapan Program, the Institute of International Education
Farinaz Koushanfar MIT Technology Review’s 2008 list of world’s 35 Top Young Innovators
2009 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
Dan Mittleman Elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America
Kartik Mohanram NSF CAREER Award
Ashutosh Sabharwal 2009 Hershel M. Rich Invention Award, Rice Engineering Alumni
Lin Zhong Mark Weiser Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication, March 2009, with Jiayang Liu, Zhen Wang, and Vanu Vasudevan
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Pulickel Ajayan Elected honorary member of the Materials Research Society of India
Jun Lou Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigators Research Program Award
2008 Hamill Innovation Award, with Jane Grande-Allen
David McStravick Outstanding Faculty Associate at Baker College
Marcia O’Malley 2008 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, Rice University
Pol Spanos Elected Foreign Member of the Academy of Europe
Boris Yakobson 2008 DOE Hydrogen Program R & D Award
2008 Nano 50 Award from Nanotech Briefs
Statistics
Dennis Cox 2008 Presidential Mentoring Award, Rice University
David Scott American Statistical Association Founders Award for Lifetime Achievement
Marina Vannucci Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Dean’s Office
Janice Hewitt 2008 GSA Faculty Teaching/Mentoring Award, Rice University
IN MEMORIAM:
William (Bill) Wilson (1944–2009), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1972–2006