2010 News Archives
Two University of Rochester Researchers Win NSF CAREER Award
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has offered its most prestigious award for young scientists, the CAREER Award, to two University of Rochester researchers: Paul Ampadu and Justin Ramsey. The NSF CAREER award is given to promising scientists early in their careers and is selected on the basis of creative proposals that effectively integrate research and education.
Rochester Team Awarded $3 Million to Develop Wireless EKG, Voice Monitors
How do you study human behavior without changing it? The key, says University of Rochester psychologist Melissa Sturge-Apple, is to be as unobtrusive as possible.
Program Advances Development of Renewable Energy Sources
A new program to advance the development of practical solar energy technology worldwide has begun at the University this month thanks to a $3.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Program director Philippe Fauchet, chairman of Computer and Electrical Engineering in the Hajim School, says the program is also developing innovative and highly interdisciplinary approaches to training the next generation of experts and entrepreneurs in renewable energy.
Acoustic Society of America Best Student Paper Award to Michael Ren, ECE PhD Student
A paper by ECE PhD student Gang (Michael) Ren entitled "Time-frequency test signal synthesis for acoustic measurements during music concerts" recently won an Acoustic Society of America Best Student Paper Award in Architectural Acoustics. Ren presented the paper at the Fall 2009 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America held in San Antonio, Texas October 26-30.
Engin Ipek and Collaborators Receive Best Paper Award at ASPLOS'10
Assistant Professor Engin Ipek and four Microsoft, Inc. collaborators recently received a best paper award at ASPLOS'10 for their work on Dynamically Replicated Memory. Three papers were tied for the top place, and all three were given best paper awards.