Faculty Honors
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Noteworthy Awards and Appointments
- Luis Amaral
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Early Career Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Jose Andrade
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2008 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering
- Zdenek Bazant
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Outstanding Contributions Award, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics
Nadai Medal, ASME
Exner Medal, ASME
- Linda Broadbelt
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2008 Mentorship Excellence Award, AIChE Women’s Initiative Committee
- Fabian Bustamante
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E.T.S. Walton Award, The Science Foundation of Ireland
Senior Member, Association for Computing Machinery
- Jian Cao
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Chair, ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division
- Isaac Daniel
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Best Paper Award, Society for Experimental Mechanics
- Horacio Espinosa
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Board of directors, Society of Engineering Science
- Morris Fine
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TMS 2009 Application to Practice Award
- Richard Finno
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2009 Karl Terzaghi Award, Geo-Institute Board of Governors
- Emmanuel Gdoutos
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Award of Merit, European Structural Integrity Society
Lazan and Theocaris Awards, Society for Experimental Mechanics
- Abraham Haddad
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IFAC Fellow Award, IFAC 17th World Congress
- Mitra Hartmann
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2008 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering
- Walter Herbst
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Gold Medal Award, 2008 Industrial Design Excellence Awards
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Invited to the World Intellectual Propery Organization of the United Nations
- Dean Ho
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Early Career Award for Translational Research, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation
John G. Bollinger Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers
2008 Distinguished Young Alumnus Award, UCLA School of Engineering
- Leon Keer
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2008 Mayo D. Hersey Award
- Prem Kumar
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Distinguished Lecturer Award, IEEE Photonics Society
- Lincoln Lauhon
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Kavli Fellow, Kavli Foundation
- Paul Leonardi
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Gerardine DeSanctis Dissertation Award, Organizational Communication and Informations Systems division of the Academy of Management
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Outstanding Published Paper Award, Communication and Information Technologies section of the American Sociological Association
- Tobin Marks
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2009 Herman Pines Award, Chicago Catalysis Society
2008 Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific Research
- Phil Messersmith
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Langmuir Lecture Award, American Chemical Society,
Division of Colloids and Surface Chemistry
- Chad Mirkin
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2008 Distinguished Achievement Award, Biomedical Engineering Society
Esselen Award for Chemistry, American Chemical Society
2009 Havinga Medal, University Leiden in the Netherlands
2009 Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award
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National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow
- Joseph Moskal
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Fran A. Beach Comparative Psychology Award, American Psychological Association
- Teri Odom
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2009 Young Investigator Award, Materials Research Society
- Monica Olvera de la Cruz
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Vice chair, Solid State Sciences Committee of the National Academies
- Julio M. Ottino
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“One Hundred Engineers of the Modern Era”, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
2008 Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society
- Aaron Packman
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Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize
- Surendra Shah
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Honorary professor, University of L’Aquilla in Italy
- Karen Smilowitz
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NAE Workshop on Engineering, Social Justice, and Sustainable Community Development
- Sam Stupp
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Honorary doctorate, Eindhoven University of Technology
2009 Israel Pollack Distinguished Lecture Series Award,
Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
- Allen Taflove
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Excellence in Teaching Award, Northwestern Alumni Association
- Jeff Thomas
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Brunauer Award for best paper published by the American Ceramic Society in area of cements, Materials Science and Technology Conference
- Jane Wang
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1st Class Science-Technology Award of University Research for collaborative research on methods for thermal-elasto-plastic contact modeling considering surface features
- Hai Zhou
- Technical Leadership Award, ACM SIGDA (Special Interest Group on Design Automation)
National Academy for the Arts
- Larry Booth
National Academy of Engineering
- Chad Mirkin
Dorothy Ann and Clarence L. Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellowship
- Harold Kung
NSF CAREER Award Winners
- Dean Ho
- Jason Hartline
Advisory and Editorial Positions
- Dan Apley
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Editor in chief, Journal of Quality Technology
- Jian Cao
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Board of directors, Society of Manufacturing Engineers North American Manufacturing Research Institute
- Horacio Espinosa
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Co-editor, Wiley book series in micro and nano technologies
Board of directors, Society of Engineering Science
- Ken Forbus
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Governing board, Cognitive Science Society
- Dean Ho
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Editor in chief, Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation
- Don Norman
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Advisory committee, NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
2008 Motorola Visionary Board
- Thrasos Pappas
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Editor in chief, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Fellows of Societies
- Jan Achenbach
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Member-at-large, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics
- Guillermo Ameer
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Elected to College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
- Zdenek Bazant
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Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Foreign corresponding member, Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering
- Wei Chen
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Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineering
- Isaac Daniel
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Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts
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Member, European Academy of Sciences
- Horacio Espinosa
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Fellow, Society for Experimental Mechanics
- Emmanuel Gdoutos
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Corresponding Member, Academy of Athens
Member, Academia Europaea
Member, Academy of Sciences
Member, Scientific Committee of the Division of Materials Science and Engineering of the European Academy of Sciences
Fellow, European Structural Integrity Society
- Abraham Haddad
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Fellow, Internation Federation of Automatic Control
- Aggelos Katsaggelos
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Fellow, The International Society for Optical Engineering
- Prem Kumar
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Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Rich Lueptow
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Fellow, American Physical Society
- Tobin Marks
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Honorary fellow, Chemical Research Society of India
Fellow, Materials Research Society
- Amanda Petford-Long
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Fellow, American Physical Society
- John Rudnicki
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Fellow, American Society of Chemical Engineering
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Peter Scheuermann
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Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Surendra Shah
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Member, Indian National Academy of Engineering
- Selim Shahriar
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Fellow, The International Society for Optical Engineering
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- Sam Stupp
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Fellow, Materials Research Society
Honorary membership, Israel Chemical Society
Endowed and Keynote Lectures
- Luis Amaral
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Keynote address, Networks & Neuroscience Symposium
- Zdenek Bazant
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Plenary lecture, CONCREEP-8
Semi-plenary lecture, 8th World Congress of Computational Mechanics
- Yan Chen
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Distinguished lecturer, Intelligent Automation, Inc.
- Ed Colgate
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Plenary talk, International Symposium on Robotics 2009
Keynote speech, ASME Asia-Pacific Engineering Education Congress
- Horacio Espinosa
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Plenary lecture, International Conference on Experimental Mechanics in Greece
- Ken Forbus
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Keynote speech, Australasian Interactive Entertainment 2008 conference
- Dean Ho
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Plenary lecture, 34th Conference of the Fullerene and Nanotube Research Society Symposium
- Yonggang Huang
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Nowinski Lecture, University of Delaware
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Plenary lecture, International Conference of Micro- and Nano-mechanics
- Hamlin Jennings
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Keynote speaker, LABEIN-Tecnalia workshop on multiscale modeling on cementitious materials in Spain
- Aggelos Katsaggelos
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Distinguished lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society
- Prem Kumar
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IEEE-LEOS distinguished lecture, Time and Frequency Division of the NRC
Plenary speaker, Photonics 2008
Distinguished lecture, Center for High Technology Materials at the University of New Mexico
- Harold Kung
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Keynote lecture, 14th International Congress on Catalysis
Keynote lecture, 20th North American Catalysis Society Meeting
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- Hani Mahmassani
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Keynote speech, Chinese Institute of Transportation Annual Meeting and Conference in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Keynote speech, Fourth International Gulf Conference on Roads in Doha, Qatar
- Ann McKenna
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Plenary lecture, MIT-led CDIO annual meeting
- Barry Nelson
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Keynote address, Annual IIE Conference
- Don Norman
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Keynote address, Hong Kong, Netherlands, San Francisco
- David Seidman
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Turnbull Lecturer, Materials Research Society
- Surendra Shah
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Keynote address, 50th Brazilian Concrete Congress
- Jeff Thomas
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Keynote speaker, LABEIN-Tecnalia workshop on multiscale modeling on cementitious materials in Spain