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updated February 8, 2010
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Faculty Newsmakers: Physics & Optical Eng. Professor Earns Cottrell Science Award
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Rich Lepkowicz |
Rich Lepkowicz, assistant professor of physics and optical engineering,
earned the prestigious Cottrell Science Award, presented by the Research
Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA). Rose-Hulman will receive $43,826
to support Lepkowicz’s project on “Multi-Photon Confocal Microscopy of
Self-Assembled Metal-Ligands at the Polymer Interphase in Multi-Layered
Polymer Films.”
RCSA, created in 1912, is America’s second-oldest foundation and the first
dedicated solely to science. The organization funds innovative research by
early career scientists, both individually and in teams crossing traditional
disciplinary boundaries.
The Cottrell College Science Award has the added goal of promoting the
opportunity for undergraduate students to participate in cutting-edge
research, an experience that gives them a head start in learning to think
like scientists. The foundation’s goal is to build and improve the country’s
scientific workforce to ensure 21st century America’s prosperity and
security.
Lepkowicz also has received a $25,000 grant from Case Western Reserve
University for his GRIN Optics project.
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Matt Boutell |
Several computer science and software engineering faculty members have had
their work accepted for the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science
Education (SIGCSE 2010) taking place in March in Milwaukee. Matt Boutell and
Curt Clifton have each had their “Birds of a Feather” breakout sessions
accepted. Boutell’s session, covering “Imaging College Educators,” is
designed to attract educators currently teaching imaging courses or those
that may be interested in expanding their curricular offerings. He is
co-organizing the session with 2001 computer science alumnus Jerod Weinman,
who is now on the faculty at Grinnell College. Clifton's session on
"Curricula in Concurrency and Parallelism" will identify resources that are
needed to help educators lead curricular transition in this area.
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Curt Clifton |
Also at SIGCSE, Clifton will present a poster on "CFG Experimenter: An
Animated Parser-Generator Programming Project for Learning Compiler
Algorithms." The work was co-authored with 2008 computer science alumnus
Brian Kelley based on a National Science Foundation-funded project. Archana
Chidanandan and Cary Laxer will present a paper on "In Their Words: Student
Feedback on an International Project Collaboration.” Other co-authors for
this paper were Lori Russell-Dag and Reyyan Ayfer of Bilkent University in
Ankara, Turkey. These educators were instrumental in establishing a
collaborative course between Rose-Hulman and Bilkent.
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Mathematics faculty members made many contributions during the meeting of
the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and Mathematical Association of
America (MAA), the largest annual meeting of mathematics educators and
scholars.
Tom Langley presented a session on "Generalized Factor Orders Modulo k" at
the AMS’s special session on enumerative combinatorics. Ralph Grimaldi
presented a mini-course on fibonacci and catalan numbers. Alberto Condori
gave an invited short talk on "An Index Formula in Connection with
Meromorphic Approximation" during the AMS’s special session on harmonic
analysis. Steve Carlson participated in the business meetings of two major
national committees of the MAA: Committee on Panel Sessions for
MathFest2010, the summer national MAA meetings, and Committee on Sections.
Carlson also gave an invited presentation on the history of the Indiana MAA.
He serves as historian for the state group.
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Alberto Condori |
In other math news, Condori was invited to give a series of lectures during
the Operator Theory Seminar at IUPUI. The title of the first talk was “Hankel
Operators and Meromorphic Approximation.” Also, Condori also has received
confirmation that his paper on "Monotone Thematic Factorizations of Matrix
Functions" will be published in the Journal of Approximation.
Also, a textbook on “Discrete Fourier Analysis and Wavelets Applications to
Signal and Image Processing,” written by mathematics colleagues Allen
Broughton and Kurt Bryan, has been adopted by Professor Ivar Farup of Gjøvik
University College in Norway for his courses.
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MSgt. Trevor Walker, senior Army ROTC military instructor, has received the
De Fleury Medal, the Army's highest engineer specific award. The award is
presented only to military engineers with a minimum of 10 years military
engineering service. Walker was selected by the Army's Chief of Engineers, a
major general and the Army's highest ranking engineer.
The award recognized Walker's more than 20 years of military engineering
service, including seven combat deployments, 14 continuous years on jump
status as a paratrooper, and, most particularly, his leadership during his
most recent combat deployment.
While deployed to Iraq from November 2007 to February 2009, Walker served as
a Combat Engineer Company First Sergeant, the highest ranking enlisted
soldier in the company. Over that 14-month period, Walker's company
conducted 1,258 route clearance missions through the Mansoor District of
central Baghdad, one of the most fiercely contested pieces of ground in the
country. The company conducted two to four missions every day, several
missions requiring the neutralization of multiple enemy-emplaced improvised
explosive devices (IEDs) on the route.
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Edwards Life Sciences will fund Rose-Hulman’s 2010 Interdisciplinary
Research Collaborative (IRC) Summer Research Program through a $25,000
grant. The 10-week campus program gives Rose-Hulman students the opportunity
to complete research projects under the guidance of faculty mentors. The
students’ research is presented at an annual undergraduate research
symposium at Rose-Hulman.
The IRC program is coordinated by Mark Brandt, associate professor of
chemistry and biochemisty, and Peter Coppinger, assistant professor of
applied biology and biomedical engineering.
The program was initially funded by Merck/AAAS and recently funded by a
Lilly Endowment Faculty Success Grant.
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Julia Williams |
Julia Williams, executive director of the Office of Institutional Research,
Planning and Assessment, conducted a webinar on “Using Classroom Assessment
Techniques in the DyKnow Context” for the International Society for
Technology in Education. The webinar was designed for recipients of the HP
Innovations in Education grant initiative and helps them get started with
DyKnow Vision software.
Williams also was invited to conduct an electronic portfolio workshop at
Otterbein College, with Liz Clark of LaGuardia Community College. Otterbein
recently revised its general education core curriculum and plans to use a
commercial electronic portfolio to allow students to showcase their best
work.
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Rose-Hulman has contributed to the growing scholarship on the impact of
tablet PCs to student learning and faculty teaching. Joshua Holden of the
Department of Mathematics joined Shannon Sexton and Julia Williams of the
Office of Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning in writing an
essay on “Math in Your Hands: Integrating the Use of Maple with the
Collaborative Use of Wireless Tablet PCs.” The essay was featured in the
2009 monograph on “The Impact of Tablet PCs and Pen-based Technology on
Education: New Horizons,” distributed by Purdue University Press. Holden
made a presentation on this topic at the Workshop for the Impact of
Pen-based Technologies in Education Conference 2009 at Virginia Tech.
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Samuel Martland |
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Samuel Martland, associate professor of history and Latin American studies,
has written a chapter on “Social and Political Fault Lines: The Valparaíso
Earthquake of 1906” published in the book Aftershocks: Earthquakes and
Popular Politics in Latin America, published by University of New Mexico
Press.
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Renat Letfullin |
Physics and optical engineering professors Renat Letfullin and Azad
Siahmakoun presented papers at the Photonics West 2010: BiOS Conference in
San Francisco.
“Multipulse Mode of Heating Nanoparticles by Nanosecond, Picosecond and
Femtosecond Pulses” was written by Letfullin, senior engineering physics
major Christian Iversen and University of Missouri-St. Louis Chancellor
Thomas F. George. “Bone Tissue Heating and Ablation by Short and Ultrashort
Laser Pulses” was written by Letfullin, senior physics major Colin Rice and
George. “Design and Characterization of MEMS Interferometric Sensing“ was
written by Siahmakoun and optical engineering graduate student Ryan Snyder.
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