GRADUATE
 Andrew Becnel (aerospace engineering [AE]) won a prestigious National Defense
Science and Engineering Fellowship to support three years of Ph.D. research. His proposal,
"Crew Protection Strategies for Manned Spacecraft During Launch and Landing," was selected by the
Air Force Office of Scientific Research from more than 2,000 applications.
 Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) graduate student Jennifer Shih,
advised by MSE Professor and Chair Robert M. Briber, has been awarded a National Institute of Standards and
Technology—American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Measurement Science and Engineering Fellowship. Shih will
conduct her fellowship research at NIST's Center for Neutron Research.
 The team of AE students Rajan Sharma, David Mayo, Ben Berry, Graham Bowen-Davies,
Vincent Prosbic, Ananth Sridharan and David Pfeifer, and faculty advisors Inderjit Chopra,
J. Gordon Leishman and VT Nagaraj took first-place in the 27th Annual American Helicopter Society
Student Design Competition (Graduate category) with a twin-lift system known as Goliath.
Ph.D. students Nathan Siwak (electrical and computer engineering [ECE]) and Kate Malinowski (Fischell Department of Bioengineering [Fischell BioE]) received Advancing Science in America scholar awards at a ceremony sponsored by the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation.
A study by Ph.D. student Woon Kim (civil engineering [CEE]) and her advisor, Professor G.L. Chang, on “Development of a Hybrid Model for Predicting Freeway Incident Duration,” received the Outstanding Paper Award for the 17th Intelligent Transportation Systems World Congress.
Mechanical engineering (ME) graduate student Brian Weiss, in conjunction with Craig I. Schlenoff from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, won the Best Paper Award at the 2010 International Test and Evaluation Association Annual Symposium. Weiss, also a full-time employee at NIST, won for his research "Performance Assessments of Two-Way, Free Form, Speech-to-Speech Translation Systems for Tactical Use."
Fischell BioE graduate students Deborah Sweet Goldberg (B.S. '06, chemical engineering) and Peter Thomas received best paper awards in the Ph.D. Student category for research they presented at the 26th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference. Goldberg was recognized for her presentation "Mechanisms of Poly(amido amine) Dendrimer Transepithelial Transport and Tight Junction Modulation in Caco-2 Cells." Thomas won for his presentation "Monitoring and Controlling Oxygen Levels in Microfluidic Devices."
Fischell BioE graduate students Brendan Casey and Adam Behrens, advised by Professor Peter Kofinas, are the authors of a paper on their research group's blood-clotting polymer hydrogel published in the American Chemical Society's (ACS) high-impact Biomacromolecules journal. Casey originally presented the work at ACS's fall meeting in August 2010, where he was also interviewed for the September 2010 issue of ACS's ScienceNews.
MSE graduate student Konstantinos Gerasopoulos, advised by ECE's Herbert Rabin Professor Reza Ghodssi (Institute for Systems Research [ISR] director), won the Best Poster Award and a cash prize of $1000 at the Mid Atlantic Micro/Nano Alliance Symposium. Gerasopoulos' poster, "Nanostructured materials and fabrication processes for advanced nanomanufacturing using biological scaffolds," presented an overview of his dissertation research.
ECE and ISR Ph.D. candidate Beiyu Rong won the Best Student Paper Award at the prestigious 8th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks. The paper was titled “Stable Throughput, Rate Control, and Delay in Multi-Access Channels."
A paper co-authored by ECE graduate student Arya Mazumdar and Professor Alexander Barg was recognized with the Best Student Paper Award at the International Symposium on Information Theory. The title of the paper was "Codes in Permutations and Error Correction for Rank Modulation."
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) graduate student Justin Walker, advised by Professor Richard V. Calabrese, won the North American Mixing Forum's Student Award at the Mixing XXII conference. He received first prize for his paper, "Breakup of an Axisymmetric Laminar Jet in the Presence of Non-Ionic Surfactants."
Three ECE/ISR graduate students won scholarships to attend the 5th European Trusted Infrastructure Summer School. The students, Shanshan Zheng, Shalabh Jain and Johnny Ta, are advised by Professor John Baras (ISR/ECE).
Yongle Wu, an ECE Ph.D. student advised by Professor K. J. Ray Liu was chosen as the winner of the Clark School Litton Industries Fellowship. The award was established by Litton Industries to support outstanding full-time graduate students in pursuit of a doctorate degree in either electrical or mechanical engineering who are committed to a teaching career in engineering education.
Ph.D. students Chad Ropp (ECE), Jessica Sheehan (ME), Kevin Galloway (ECE and ISR), Keith Gregorczyk (MSE and ISR) and Greg Gremillion (AE and ISR) were selected as the inaugural class of L-3 Graduate Research Fellows.
Fischell BioE Graduate student Sean Virgile is the newest recipient of the Fischell Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering. His research interests include microfluidics, early cancer detection, and bringing new technologies from the lab to the market.
ECE Ph.D. student and R. W. Deutsch Graduate Student Fellow Peter Dykstra won first place for his poster in the bioengineering category at UM's Bioscience Day 2010. Dykstra's poster illustrated his research in "An electrochemical DNA sensor for concentration detection of the small molecule cyclic adenosine monophosphate."
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UNDERGRADUATE
 Jonathan Worden (fire protection engineering [FPE]) won the 2010 Phillip L.
Turner Fire Protection Scholarship from the Fire Apparatus Manufacturers' Association in recognition
of his outstanding academic achievement and commitment to the fire service.
 David Yates (FPE) was the recipient of the Arthur E. Cote Scholarship from
the National Fire Protection Association Fire Safety Educational Memorial Fund Committee. Bryant Hendrickson (also FPE) is the recipient of the John L. Jablonsky Scholarship from the same organization.
 Three Clark School undergraduate students and their mentors have been named Philip
Merrill Presidential Scholars. The honorees are:
• Lauren McKay (AE, pictured) and her mentors, Clark School Professor Christopher Cadou and her world history
and AP European history teacher at Patuxent High School, Stan Hampton.
• Nicholas Wagman (AE) and his mentors, Clark School Associate Dean William Fourney and his
English teacher at Winters Mill High School, John Holt.
• YiAn (Ann) Sun (ChBE and mathematics) and her mentors, Clark School Professor Chunsheng
Wang and her mathematics teacher at Montgomery Blair High School, Eric Walstein.
Fischell BioE senior Jessica Stewart has been named the first recipient of the Jeffrey C. and Sandra W. Huskamp Endowed Bioengineering Scholarship, established in honor of the late University of Maryland CIO Jeffrey Huskamp, and his wife, Sandra, former Fischell BioE director of operations. The $1500 award will be given to a different student each year.
ChBE senior Emily Lin, advised by Assistant Professor Ganesh Sriram, recently attended the American Society of Plant Biologists' 2010 national meeting, where she was invited to present her research in both the student and general poster sessions.
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