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EVENTS 2000, 1998, 1998

December 13, 2000, Team Lux gets $50,000 loan, renovated space

December 2000,
Prof. Jerry Woodall receives IEEE Third Millennium Award 

December 2000, Dean Fleury named Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Engineering and Applied Physics

December 11, 2000,
Prof. Mark Reed's high school advisee is national winner, gets $100,000

December 2000, Zhijiong Luo wins IEEE/SISC 2000 Ed Nicollian Best Student Paper Award

November 29, 2000, Prof. Emeritus W. Jack Cunningham, Engineering historian, on Sheffield's railroads

November 27, 2000, Prof. Mark Reed featured in Fortune for molecular transistors

November 20, 2000, Mr. Josepth Levitzky honored by American Chemical Society

October 30, 2000, Prof. Mark Reed, Dr. James Klemic among Yale inventors of revolutionary technology

October 30, 2000, Thomas E. Golden '51E B.S., '52 M.Eng, endows Engineering professorship

October 23, 2000, Henry Schacht '56E BS, '88 MAH, new Chair and CEO of Lucent Technologies

October 2000,
Prof. Robert Schoelkopf to receive $650,000 as Packard Fellow

September 2000, $3.5 million from NSF's ITR to Prof. Peter Belhumeur and colleagues

September 2000, Prof. Daniel Rosner's Transport Processes... issued in paperback

September 2000,  Environmental Engineering graduate students win major fellowships 

September 2000, National Geographic September issue features Prof. John Gore's imaging

August 2000, NIH awards Prof. John Gore $1,820,000 to continue brain imaging studies 

August 2000, Graduate dissertation wins first APS Andreas Dissertation Award

July 5, 2000, Paul A. Fleury appointed Dean of Engineering    

July 4, 2000, E. Turan Onat, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, dies

June 30, 2000,  D. Allan Bromley, Dean of Engineering from 1994 to 2000, returns to Physics 

April 12, 2000, Charles A. Walker '48 D.Eng., former ChE Chair and College Master, dies

April 12, 2000, Presidential Early Career Award to Prof. Michael Loewenberg

April 1, 2000, YellowPen wins top $50,000 YES prize for Ph.D. candidate Stephen Smith and postdoc Stephen D. Robinson 

March 17, 2000, Highest Yale award for scholarship and teaching for Prof. William Bennett Jr.

March 3, 2000, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering inducts Prof. Duncan 

March 2000, ASME selects Kevin Salandy 2000 for award

February 2000, Prof. A. Stephen Morse's among 25 important papers of 20th century

February 2000, International Journal  of Computer Vision publishes Yale special issue

February 2000, American Chemical Society selects Jeffrey Y. Chen for distinction 

February 2000, $135,000 for Professors John Gore and Adam Anderson to complete textbook 

January 23-25, 2000, Conference in honor of Prof. Horvath who pioneered HPLC

January 2000, Prof. John Gore receives $500,000 from NIH toward purchase of FMRI

January 19, 2000, Gift of $24 million by John Malone '63 to support new Engineering building

January 19, 2000, YALE TO INVEST $500 MILLION IN SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FACILITIES

January 5, 2000, NASA to fund microgravity research by Professors Apfel, Grant, and Loewenberg

November 4, 1999, Yale launches drive for building to house Biomedical Engineering

November, 1999, ME lecturer, EE alumnus, one of MIT's Technology Review 100 innovators under 35

November 1, 1999, New York Times highlights Prof. Mark Reed’s revolutionary research

October 18, 1999,  Bioscience and Nanotechnology Workshop

October 13, 1999, Prof. Daniel Rosner recognized for excellence in aerosol research.

October 7, 1999, John C. Malone, Chairman, Liberty Media Corporation, named Sheffield Fellow

October 7, 1999, Prof. Robert D. Grober receives Sheffield Teaching Award for 1999

October, 1999, Prof. A. Stephen Morse and Prof. Peter Belhumeur win NSF 2.6 million for fish/AUV's motion study

May 24, 1999,  Undergraduate and Graduate Student winners of the 1999 Faculty of Engineering Prizes

April 21, 1999, Yale Students Win $20,000 First Prize and a Shot at Venture Capital

April 17, 1999, Team Lux unveils "Lux Perpetua," Yale's solar vehicle

April 14, 1999,  Isonics Corp. to use patent by Prof. T-P. Ma for advanced wafer development

April 1999, Prof. Robert D. Grober appointed to Endowed Professorship

April 1999, Prof. John Gore receives $1.4 million to continue NMR studies

April 7, 1999, Dr. Mary L. Good, Donaghey University Professor at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, named Sheffield Fellow

March 1999, Prof. Marshall B. Long elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America

February 16, 1999, Prof. Katepalli R. Sreenivasan elected to the National Academy of Engineering

February 10, 1999, Prof. Eric I. Altman receives highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government

February 1999, Frontiers of Science and Engineering, program for high school juniors, starts Feb. 22

January 1999, Prof. Pierre Hohenberg receives the 1999 Max Planck Medaille

November 17, 1998, Henry P. Becton, Director Emeritus, Becton Dickinson and Company, Sheffield Fellow

November 5, 1998, George David, President and CEO of United Technologies Corporation, Dean's Distinguished Lecturer

October 29, 1998, Nathan Myhrvold, Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Corporation, Sheffield Fellow

October 22, 1998,  Robert Glaser, CEO, RealNetworks, Sheffield Fellow

October 12, 1998,National Award for our graduate student's invention

October 12, 1998, Prof. Morse Honored for work on Automatic Control Systems

October, Dean D. Allan Bromley announces four Special Speakers for fall of 1998

September/October, Yale ranks fourth among U.S. Research Universities

September 18,1998, Grad student's invention has potential to change computer industry

September 8, 1998, Yale student among winners in the 1998 BFGoodrich National Collegiate Inventors Program

August 21-23, 1998, Professor Peter Belhumeur, EE and CS, was invited by the President of the National Academy of Sciences Bruce Alberts to participate in the Academy's First Annual Symposium on the Frontiers of Science, held August 21-23 at the National Academy of Sciences Beckman Center in Irvine, California

August 9, 1998, "Yale, Bell Labs Forge Ahead in Field of Spintronics"

August 1998, Professor A. Stephen Morse, EE, is winner of the 1999 IEEE Control Systems Award

July 4-8, 1998, Yale undergrad team, youngest, shines in Robot World Cup Soccer Games in Paris

July 6, 1998, Reported in Business Week, Single-Electron Transistors Make Quantum Leap

April 24, 1998,  Norman E. Johnson Senior Vice President, Weyerhaeuser Company, Dean's Distinguished Lecturer

April 1998, Items of Interest 1997-1998, a year's happenings in the Faculty of Engineering

March 26, 1998, John Manley, Minister of Industry, Canada, Dean's Distinguished Lecturer

March 1998, Chair in Chemical Engineering, established in honor of alumnus Roberto Goizueta, late CEO and chair of The Coca-Cola Company

February 1998, Frontiers of Science and Engineering, 1998 Program


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