New Endowed Professorship in Engineering: The Roberto C. Goizueta Chair in Chemical Engineering with an associated Research Fund were announced by Mrs. Roberto Goizueta at Yale on February 23, 1998. The late Roberto C. Goizueta, CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, had received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1953 and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters May 1997 from Yale. He was named the first Sheffield Fellow at Yale, in 1996.

NEC establishes Engineering Fellowships: NEC gave $1 million grant from the Tokyo-based Nippon Electric Co. to fund several Yale Graduate Engineering Fellowships. NEC has had a longstanding collaboration with Yale, especially with Prof. T-P. Ma and Prof. Richard Barker who have conducted research projects with NEC engineers, hosted NEC researchers at Yale, and visit their NEC colleagues in Japan every year.

New Courses in 1997
Ethics: Prof. Mercedes Carreras developed and taught "Professional Ethics." The course uses a theoretical and case-oriented approach to ethical decision making and is designed to provide students concepts, tools, and methods to construct and justify their own solutions to moral problems they may face as professionals.

Remote teaching: The Department of Chemical Engineering offered a remote teaching/videoconference course on "Biochemical Engineering: Biotechnology," developed by Prof. (Adjunct) William S. Hancock and Prof. Csaba Horv‡th. The lectures were given by Prof. Hancock at HP Labs in Palo Alto and guest lecturers from the biotechnology industry in the San Francisco Bay area. The course's video and audio are streamed and archived on http://www.eng.yale.edu/ biotechnology/

Info technology: Professors Daniel Prober, Peter Kindlmann, and Stephen Slade developed and taught "Information Technology for Management," a graduate course on the use of information technology in businesses for strategic advantage and for changing organizational behavior. This course will, henceforth, be taught regularly at the Yale School of Management.

Combustion: Prof. Daniel Rosner developed and taught "Combustion for Chemical Synthesis and Materials Processing." The course focuses on combustion techniques used to synthesize new materials or process materials to increase their performance and/or value.

Research awards: During 1997-98, our faculty members received grants totaling $12,905,358. For example:
At White House ceremony: Prof. Peter Belhumeur accepted a Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering at a White House ceremony November 3, 1997. The award provides $500,000 for research over a five-year period.

NSF Career Awards: Prof. Peter N. Belhumeur received $500,000 (est.) for research on "Image Variability Decomposition for Recognition, Reconstruction and Tracking," Prof. Dana S. Henry received $210,000 (est.) for "Fast Networking for Off-the-Shelf Multi-User Computers," and Prof. Bradley Kuszmaul received $210,000 (est.) for "Using Critical Path Length as a Practical Performance Metric."

Among most promising: Prof. Robert D. Grober was one of "twenty of the most promising science and engineering researchers at universities in the United States (who) have been awarded five-year fellowships worth $500,000 apiece" in 1997 by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The Fellows are nominated by their university presidents and recommended by a committee of nationally recognized scientists and engineers. Prof. Grober focuses on near-field optical scanning microscopy with applications to optical imaging of DNA.

Ranked fourth: Prof. A. Douglas Stone and Prof. Richard Chang received $727,000 from NSF for a three-year research project on "Q-Control of Microcavities for Physics and Optoelectronics." Their proposal was ranked fourth among the 18 proposals funded, from a total of 627 pre-proposals and 75 full proposals.

Talks: In 1997 and in 1998, our faculty gave numerous talks and participated in many domestic and international conferences held in the continental U.S. Some faculty members also gave talks outside the continental U.S. (often more than one talk in a given area): Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Ukraine.

Applied Physics welcomed three "thousands" in 1997-98:
Dr. Robert Schoelkopf's and Prof. Daniel Prober's thousand-fold improvement in the sensitivity of single-electron spectrometers, uProf. Robert Grober's thousand-fold improvement of the light output from Near-Field Scanning Microscopes, and uProf. A. Douglas Stone's collaboration with Dr. Federico Capasso at Bell Labs, which resulted in a thousand-fold increase in the power output of microcylinder lasers.

Using a microgravity airplane: Prof. Marshall Long and graduate student Kevin Walsh measured quantitatively the optical emission of a co-flow laminar diffusion flame during 205 low-g parabolas in four KC-135 flights Feb. 28-March 2, 1998, using NASA's KC-135 microgravity airplane at NASA Lewis in Cleveland, OH <http://pantheon.yale.edu/~mblong/nasa/>

Developed methods: The New York Times (Science), 3/3/98, and other media reported widely on the brain research results at Yale School of Medicine which showed a physical difference between the brains of dyslexic and of normal readers. The use of functional MRI to image the brain for this study is described in the March 2 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The senior author is Prof. John Gore, who developed the methods used and directs the imaging team that performed the dyslexia-related studies. In 1997, Prof. Gore received $400,000 from NSF to support acquisition of a high field human MRI system at Yale.

For viewing wordwide: Prof. Roman Kuc, whose research on sonar sensor applications caught the interest of the media in a number of countries, will be filmed by an Australian company for a series of science documentaries produced for Discovery Communications, Inc. of U.S. The one-hour documentaries will be aired on Discovery Learning Channel in North America and also broadcast in Australasia, Europe, Africa, and South America. Prof. Kuc's segment will be filmed at Yale. In 1997, Prof. Kuc was granted a patent for "Biomedical Magnetism Imaging Apparatus and Method" (#5,594,849).

Editor of new magazine, research results: Prof. Mark A. Reed is one of the editors of Physica E., a new interdisciplinary journal of low-dimensional systems and nanostructures. The other editors are from the University of Tokyo, Max-Planck-Institut, SUNY Buffalo, and UniversitŠt Regensburg.
Science reported, 10/10/97, on the research of Prof. Mark Reed, grad student Chong Wo-Zhou, and former postdoctoral fellow C. J. Muller, also of chemistry professor James M. Tour and grad student Timothy P. Burgin from the University of South Carolina, which succeeded in measuring an electric current flowing through a single organic molecule sandwiched between metal electrodes. These results point toward development of computers and sensors that are smaller, faster, and cheaper than silicon-based ones. The next step, says Prof. Reed, is to design computer chips with wires made of self-assembling strings of organic molecules grown in a beaker.

Dean Bromley in Washington: Dean D. Allan Bromley, in his capacity as president of the APS, Ron Breslow, past president of the ACS, Winfred Phillips of the ASME, and more than 100 other leaders in science, medicine, mathematics, and engineering joined Senators at a press conference on Capitol Hill to support the National Research Investment Act proposing the doubling of funding for scientific research. The bill was introduced Oct. 22, 1997 by Senators Phil Gramm (R-TX) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT).

The first industrial partners: The first industrial partners to offer summer internships for the eighteen undergraduates who are enrolled in the new "Select Program in Engineering" at Yale are Baxter Corporation, The Coca Cola Company, Ford Motor Company, Hewlett Packard, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, Motorola, Procter & Gamble, and United Technologies. The program confers a combined B.S.-M.Eng or B.S.-M.S. degree after five years of study.

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