Hajim School News 2007

January

Professor Robert Boyd makes Discover's Top 100 List (Jan. 12,2007)

Professor Ben Ebenhack lectures on "Linked Fate: Energy Equity in Our Global Society" (Jan. 12,2007)

New Engineering Program Gives Students International Exposure (Jan. 17, 2007)

Professor Chuang Ren wins 2 million hours of supercomputing (Jan.17, 2007)

Ching Tang, OLED creator, joins ChemE faculty (Jan. 19, 2007)

Professor Diane Dalecki to lead Center for Biomedical Ultrasound(Jan. 23, 2007)

Professor Michael Scott named Fellow of ACM (Jan. 24, 2007)

February

CEIS hosts technology showcase (Feb. 1, 2007)

ASME egg drop competition (Feb. 9, 2007)

Super-thin Filter, 50 Atoms Thick, Sorts Individual Molecules (Feb. 15, 2007)

March

Genome Sequencing Reveals Key to Viable Ethanol Production (March 2, 2007)

April

Laser Goes Tubing for Faster Body-Fluid Tests (April 2, 2007)

May

UR signs exclusive agreement with SiMPore (May 2, 2007)

Charles Munnerlyn awarded Land Medal (May 4, 2007)

Goergen Hall is dedicated (May 16, 2007)

Philip Brune wins Fulbright (May 16, 2007)

Professor Lukas Novotny named Fellow of OSA (May 25, 2007)

June

Landmark quantum conferences meet at UR (June 8, 2007)

July

Biomedical engineering students place first in national competition(July 23, 2007)

August

Center for Future Health awarded funding (Aug. 17, 2007)

Professor Andrew Berger wins Goergen award (Aug. 24, 2007)

October

Professor James Li wins ASM distinguished teaching award (Oct.11, 2007)

Experimental technique sorts DNA, cells, molecules in a split second (Oct. 17, 2007)

Professor Shaw Chen receives Lifetime Achievement Award (Oct.19, 2007)

$2 million gift enables Robert E. Hopkins Center (Oct. 23,2007)

Professor David Williams honored for improving vision (Oct. 23,2007)

Professor Ching Tang wins Daniel E. Noble award (Oct. 30, 2007)

November

Professor Henry Kyburg dies (Nov. 7, 2007)

Professor John Thomas elected as Fellow of AAAS (Nov. 12, 2007)

CEIS announces record $120 million economic impact (Nov. 15,2007)

Department of Energy Renews Agreement for LLE (Nov. 21,2007)

December

Professor Marc Feldman dies at 62 (Dec. 6, 2007)

Material forms a new class of shape-memory polymers (Dec. 12, 2007)