Awards & Honors, April 2010

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced the 2010 class of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members. Read the announcement

“Two hundred and twenty-nine leaders in the sciences, social sciences, the humanities, the arts, business, and public affairs have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences” this year. See the full list

Seven of the Fellows are Tau Beta Pi members:

Dr. Sunney I. Chan, CA A ’57, Professor Emeritus at California Institute of Technology.

William A. Goddard III, Ph.D., CA E ’60, Professor at California Institute of Technology.

Arthur L. Goldstein, NY G ’57, Chairman, President, and CEO Emeritus at Ionics, Inc.

James Michael Moran, Jr., IN G ’63, Professor and Chair at Harvard University.

David N. Seidman, NY E ’60, Professor at Northwestern University and Member of NSF Materials Research Center.

John Warren Wilkins, IL G ’59, Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor at The Ohio State University.

Dr. Jeanette M. Wing, MA B ’79, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Assistant Director at the National Science Foundation.

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Tau Beta Pi has announced the 2010 class of Tau Beta Pi Fellows.

There are 28 Fellows for the 2010-11 academic year.
See the list of Fellows here

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The Governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland, has “announced the designation of five Centers of Excellence in Enabling Technologies.”

The five Centers of Excellence are: Case Western Reserve University: Institute of Advanced Materials; Kent State University: Liquid Crystal, Bioscience, Nanotechnology; Ohio State University: Materials, Manufactured Technologies and Nanotechnology; University of Akron: Globally Distinctive Polymer Sciences and Engineering Applied in Regional Industry Clusters; and University of Cincinnati: Nanoscale Sensors.

Also, Youngstown State’s Materials Science and Engineering College was identified as “an Emerging Center of Excellence.” Read article

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