M&ENS Selected Honors and Awards 2007 - 2008
Archive: 2006-07
Aleksei Aksimentiev
IBM faculty Award
Nicholas Fang
MIT Technology Review Magazine's 35 Young Innovators Award, 2008
UIUC Engineering Council Award of Excellence in Advising, 2007
Philippe Geubelle
Best Paper of the Year Award, 2007, Materials Division, ASME for paper "Continuum- and molecular-level modeling of fatigue crack propagation in self-healing composite" co-authored by S. Maiti, C. Shankar, P. H. Geubelle and J. Kieffer (J. Eng. Mater. Technology, 128:4, 595-602, 2006).
Martin Gruebele
Elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences
Eric Jakobsson
IEEE Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Outstanding Achievement Award, awarded at IEEE BIBE October 2007
Outstanding Application Paper Award at IEEE BIBE 2007 for “Tilson, J.L, Rendon, G., Ger, M.-F, and E. Jakobsson, “MotifNetwork: A Grid-enabled Workflow for High-throughput Domain Analysis of Biological Sequences: Implications for annotation and study of phylogeny, protein interactions, and intraspecies variation.
Jean-Pierre Leburton
Best paper finalists, IEEE-NANO 2007, Hong-Kong, SAR, China, Aug 2-5, 2007 (w/ M. Gracheva)
Jeffrey S. Moore
Inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2008)
AED Professor of the Year (2008
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity Outstanding Educator (2007)
John A. Rogers
Baekeland Award, American Chemical Society (2007)
Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, UIUC (2007)
Fellow, Materials Research Society (2008)
Klaus Schulten
ISQBP Society, “Award in Computational Biology”, 2008
Mark Shannon
Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising, COE, 2008
Nancy R. Sottos
Named to SciAm 50, Scientific American (2007)
Gregory Timp
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers