Awards Glenn Knoll, emeritus professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences, received the 2007 Radiation Instrumentation Outstanding Achievement Award Oct. 29 from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. The honor is for his “contributions to the education of a generation of nuclear scientists and advancement of the science of radiation detection,” according to the award citation. Knoll has been a U-M faculty member for 45 years. He retired from teaching in 2001. Walter Weber Jr., the Gordon M. Fair and Earnest Boyce Distinguished University Professor and a professor of chemical engineering and of environmental engineering, has been honored with the 2007 Lawrence K. Cecil Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. The award recognizes his 50-year career and world leadership in the application of chemical engineering principles to solving significant environmental challenges in practice and in the classroom. Kamal Sarabandi, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and director of the Radiation Laboratory, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists from The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany. This award is granted to scientists and scholars from all disciplines whose fundamental discoveries, new theories or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements. Appointment Gary Olson, the Paul M. Fitts Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, School of Information, has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is among 38 ACM members worldwide honored for contributions to computing technology that have brought advances in the way people live and work throughout the world. Olson was cited for contributions to the field of computer-supported collaborative work.
