Difference Makers

Dr. Jeannette M. Wing, MA B ’79, has been hired as the new vice president of Microsoft Research International. Currently, Dr. Wing is professor and department head of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. She was previously an assistant director at the National Science Foundation.

According to the article from The Seattle Times, she will oversee Microsoft’s research labs in Bangalore, India; Cambridge, UK; and Beijing, China. You can also read the news release from Microsoft, here, where Dr. Wing is characterized as “a leading figure in computer science research, particularly in formal methods, security, and privacy.”

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Ohio Northern University (ONU) highlighted the recent induction of Robert Kenny, OH I ’88, as an eminent engineer into the Ohio Iota chapter of Tau Beta Pi. Kenny is vice president and general manager with General Cable. He received his electrical engineering degree from ONU in 1988.

Click here for more biographical information on Kenny and for more details on the initiation of eighteen other ONU undergraduates into Tau Beta Pi earlier this month.

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Momentum, a publication of the Mississippi State University Bagley College of Engineering, profiled an historic Bent monument on the Mississippi State University campus and one of the creators of the concrete Bent, Thomas W. Hardy, MS A 1939. Hardy passed away in May at the age of 93, but he took time to visit with the newest members of Tau Beta Pi at the Mississippi Alpha chapter last year.

He was interviewed for this story during his final visit to the campus. Hardy’s advice to aspiring engineers, “Decide what you want from your career and go for it.” You can read the article for more information on the Bent monument and how it was constructed. There are pictures and unique facts, such as its estimated weight of more than 10,000 pounds.

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