-COE News
-New Research Grants and Gifts
-Awards and Honors
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-COE News
-New Research Grants and Gifts
-Awards and Honors
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Dear alumni and friends:
I am delighted to congratulate Professor Randall Meyer of the Department of Chemical Engineering on his receiving the very prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Each year about 200 faculty members in science and engineering in the USA receive this award. As part of this award, he will receive about $400,000 over five years to perform research on a project entitled “Fundamental Studies of the Roles and Interaction of Disparate Metal p-d Alloy Catalysts.”
I am also very pleased to congratulate Professor Jie Liang of the Department of Bioengineering who was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
I wish all of you Happy Holidays!
Peter C. Nelson
Interim Dean, College of Engineering
Professor Ouri Wolfson of the Computer Science department on WGN Channel 9 News
Ouri Wolfson was interviewed on Wednesday, 12/12/07 on the 9:00 p.m. WGN News. He was interviewed regarding cell phone tracking. If you would like to watch the segment, the video is available at: http://www.uic.edu/eng/ems/ems/video/CS/Wolfson/
A high-definition professor upgrades remote education
Computer science professor Jason Leigh uses HD video and a high-speed network to teach a video game design course simultaneously at UIC and Louisiana State University.
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/uicnews/articledetail.cgi?id=11726
Getting to core of the problem 
The Chicago Sun Times picked this story that we featured in our last COE Newsletter about Global Warming and how Geoscientists in Antarctica use EVL's visualization tools.
http://www.suntimes.com/technology/guy/669818,CST-FIN-ecol28.article
Program helps girls get WISE to nanotechnology
UIC's Women in Science and Engineering program is heading into cyberspace to teach girls about an emerging science field. Read more at:
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/uicnews/articledetail.cgi?id=11717
Engineering Career Prep Day will be held on Friday, February 1, 2007.
You may register as a mentor at: http://www.engr.uic.edu/co-op/career_prep_reg.htm. The format of Engineering Career Prep Day will be an alumni panel from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and mentoring from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Lunch and parking validation are provided. Current students and recent graduates who would like to attend to receive assistance with interview skills and resume preparation should contact Kate Kaplan at klederer@uic.edu.
Professor Randall Meyer of the Chemical Engineering department receives NSF Career Award
Randall Meyer is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Congratulations to Randall and the Department of Chemical Engineering.
Professor Jie Liang of the Bioengineering department is elected a Fellow of AIMBE
Jie Liang was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Professor Tanya Berger-Wolf of the Computer Science department article gets published by Science News
Science News published an article about Tanya Berger-Wolf’s work on zebras: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20071201/mathtrek.asp
Julie J. Rehmeyer, “Social Networking for Zebras”, Week of December 1, 2007; Vol. 172, No. 22
UIC News also featured Professor Tanya Berger-Wolf work on zebras.
UIC Computer Science Ph.D. candidate won Best Paper Award as a new investigator
Lin Xiao, a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate, won the Best Paper Award in the new investigator track at the Grace Hopper Conference for her paper, “A Simulation System for Ad hoc Query-Ready Sensors.” The paper is coauthored with Sudeepta Musti and Aris Ouksel. The statement was made at an award dinner where over 1400 technical women and top engineering and research executives from Microsoft, Google, and Intel to name a few attended, that this was one of the strongest research groups the presenter had seen and showed great promise for more outstanding work. Professor Tanya Berger-Wolfe presented a paper as well, and nine attendees from UIC attended this event in Orlando.
NCDM, National Center for Data Mining, receives SC|07 Conference Award
Reno, NV, November 15, 2007 - A new approach for protecting cyber-infrastructure won first place at the Third Annual Analytics Challenge at the SC|2007 conference in Reno, NV.
Stacie Suggs, a UIC Alumni receives Society of Women Engineers Honor
Stacie, a UIC alumna and Northrop Grumman employee was honored in Los Angeles, California as the recipient of the Society of Women Engineers’ Distinguished New Engineer.
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Newsletter Editors, Carolyn Griffith and Nancy Singer
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