Pratt People
Posted June 1st, 2005
John Dolbow, assistant professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been selected to receive the R. H. Gallagher Young Investigator Award from the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics. Dolbow was honored for his groundbreaking developments in meshfree and extended finite element methods for solid mechanics applications. He will receive a medal and an honorarium this summer at the 8th U.S. Congress on Computational
Mechanics.
Assistant Professor Stefan Zauscher of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, received a NSF-Europe Materials Collaboration grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research, Office of Special Programs. The three-year, $330,000 grant will support collaborative work on synthesis, characterization and molecular modeling of stimulus-responsive polymer brushes with Lund University in Sweden. Lund University's work will be funded by the Swedish Science Foundation.
Freshman engineering student Kerry Costello was a member of the women's lacrosse team that won Duke's first ACC Lacrosse Championship. Master of Engineering Management graduate student Lauren Matic ran a spectacular 800-meter race to help the Duke's women's track team win the distance medley relay at the Penn Relays April 29. It was Duke's first Penn Relays championship. Matic and three other Duke women earned the win in a school-record time of 11:10.18.
Civil engineering sophomore Mika Tanimoto-Stroy has won a $1,500 scholarship from the North Carolina Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Pratt professors Rob Clark, David Needham, Chris Dwyer, Nan Jokerst, Katherine Nightingale, Rachael Brady and Craig Henriquez spoke at the second annual Duke Frontiers conference fostering collaboration between university researchers and private corporations. Ten featured presentations and a dozen poster sessions at the May 9 conference highlighted Duke research in fields such as nanotechnology, medical and environmental sensors, diagnostic imaging, visualization of scientific data and computing in the life sciences. More than 115 people attended, mostly corporate researchers or venture capitalists.
The National Institutes of Health has a new brochure out, Medicines by Design, and there’s a full page focusing on MEMS Professor David Needham’s designer liposomes that melt on demand and release anti-cancer drugs within tumors.
BME graduate student Holly Leddy has received a Selected Professions Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. This $20,000 fellowship provides support for graduate students in their final year of study. Leddy, a CBTE NIH fellow, was awarded the CBTE student achievement award last year.
Sumit Shah, who graduated with a major in biomedical engineering last year, is now teaching in Korea and has been nominated by Duke for a Jack Kent Cooke fellowship. He already has been accepted to Stanford Medical School.
Andrew Schuler, assistant professor of civil engineering, will debut June 8 as one of the professors on the TBS reality show, The Real Gilligan’s Island. The show pits two teams of contestants against each other in physical challenges on an island in the Gulf of Mexico.
