Appointed
Anna Michalak, assistant professor in the College of Engineering, has been selected to receive the PECASE Award, the highest honor bestowed by the federal government on junior/mid-career faculty. Michalak has introduced new geostatistical tools that allow researchers to quantify answers for environmental problems that are otherwise highly variable and hard to manage. She has been selected to serve as the co-chair for both the scientific steering committee for the NASA Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions Over Nights Days and Seasons satellite mission, and for the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan committee that will guide federally sponsored research in carbon cycling.
Elected
Stephen Forrest, vice president for research, William Gould Dow Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering, professor of computer science, professor of materials science and engineering and professor of physics, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society for contributions to the fundamental understanding of the thin film growth, and to the physics of excitons in organic materials, leading to the demonstration of high efficiency organic light emitting devices, organic photovoltaics and organic lasers.
