WPI Research Publication

FALL 2013

WPI Research is the research magazine of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It contains news and features about graduate research in the arts and sciences, business, and engineering, along with notes about new grants, books, and faculty achievements.

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highlights > FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS > NEW FELLOWS Kristen Billiar, associate professor of biomedical engineering, has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME). He has also been named to the executive board of the ASME's Bioengineering Division and elected to a three-year term on the Biomedical Engineering Society's board of directors. John Blandino, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has been elected to the grade of associate fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. David DiBiasio, professor and head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Fellow membership is limited to two percent of the organization's 40,000 members. > DISTINGUISHED PROFESSIONAL HONORS Rise of a City, a composition for guitar and musical robots by Scott Barton, assistant professor of music technology, was a winner of Ablaze Records' international composition competition; it is featured on an Ablaze collection called Millennial Masters, Vol. 4. Terri Camesano, professor of chemical engineering, was selected to be a member of the inaugural class of ELATE (Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering) Fellows at Drexel University in 2012–13. The program provides academic leadership training and support for women through a one-year fellowship program. Glenn Gaudette, associate professor of biomedical engineering, has been appointed to the scientifc advisory board for the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, the quasi-public agency tasked with implementing the state's 10-year, $1 billion Life Sciences Initiative. BUSINESS PROFESSORS EARN FULBRIGHT HONORS Michael Elmes, a professor in WPI's School of Business, received a grant through the Fulbright Scholars Program to lecture and conduct pioneering research on food security, sustainability, and social justice in the Netherlands during the 2013–14 academic year. This is the second Fulbright award for Elmes, who was a Fulbright Scholar in New Zealand in 2005, an experience that led this year to the establishment of a WPI undergraduate student project center in that country. Through a separate award, Steven Taylor, an associate professor in the School of Business, recently spent a month at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand, as a Fulbright Specialist. Taylor helped that university enhance its arts-based educational programs, particularly through the use of theatre as a learning tool for business students and faculty members. 44 > wpi.edu/+research Nikolas Kazantzis, professor of chemical engineering, was reappointed a senior associate by the Fellowship Committee at Hughes Hall, the oldest of the six graduate colleges at the University of Cambridge in England. Rajib Mallick, Ralph White Family Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was appointed to the steering committee of the NSFfunded Infrastructure and Climate Network at the University of New Hampshire. Jeanine Plummer, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and holder of the Schwaber Professorship in Environmental Engineering, has been elected to a three-year term as chair of the Water Science and Research Division of the American Water Works Association, and currently sits on the organization's Technical and Educational Council. Tom Robertson, associate professor of history, has won a Truman-Kauffman Research Fellowship from the Harry S. Truman Library Institute for National and International Affairs. Only two fellowships are awarded each year to senior scholars in support of ambitious archival-based research projects that will result in a book to be published by Cambridge University Press. Josh Rosenstock, associate professor of art, contributed to "Periscope," a live video public art installation commissioned by Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc. for the Amazon.com building in Seattle. Rosenstock developed an autonomously generated animation composed of surveillance and webcam images from around the world. Jeanine Skorinko, associate professor of social science and policy studies and director of the Psychological Sciences Program, was elected president of the New England Psychological Association for 2013 –14.

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