WPI Research Publication

FALL 2012

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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STEM Education Pioneer Honored at the White House RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT S Faculty Achievements Chrysanthe Demetry, associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Morgan Center for Teaching and Learning, accepted the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring at a White House ceremony in 2011; the award was for Camp Reach, a summer enrichment program for seventh grade girls that she co-founded in 1997. Also in 2011, she became the fourth WPI faculty member to be named Professor of the Year for Massachusetts by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. Conference Organizers Joel Brattin professor of literature and authority on Charles Dickens, served as academic advisor for the exhibit "Dickens and Massachusetts: A Tale of Power and Transfor- mation," installed in the Lowell National Historic Park. WPI's Robert D. Fellman Dickens Collection, which Brattin directs, was an institutional partner in the exhibit, part of a global commemoration of the author's 200th birthday. Mark Claypool, professor of computer science and director of the Interactive Media and Game Development program, was the general chair for the 2012 ACM (Association for Com- puting Machinery) Multimedia Systems Conference in Chapel Hill, N.C. Michael Gennert, professor of computer science, and Taskin Padir, assistant profes- sor of electrical and computer engineering, co-chaired the techni- cal program for the 4th IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robotics Applications in April 2012. [38] Wesley Mott, professor of literature, recently completed an unprecedented sec- ond term as president of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, which, with the Nathaniel Haw- thorne Society and the Poe Studies Association, organized the interna- tional conference Conversazioni in Italia: Emerson, Hawthorne, and Poe, in Florence, Italy, in June 2012. Kaveh Pahlavan, professor of electrical and computer engineer- ing, was general chair of the 2011 IEEE Inter- national Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications in Toronto and of the 3rd Invitational Workshop on Opportunistic RF Localization for Next Generation Wireless Devices held in New Orleans in May 2012. Elke Rundensteiner, professor of computer science, served as sole program chair for the 15th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, in Berlin, Germany, in March 2012. John Sanbonmatsu, associate professor of philosophy, organized a symposium titled "The Future of Critical Animal Studies" as part of the annual Minding Animals Conference, in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in July 2012. Albert Simeoni, associate professor of fire protection engineering, was on the organizing committee of the 2012 Mathematical and Physical Modeling of the Danger- ous Natural Phenomena and Technogenic Accidents Conference, in Tomsk, Russia. He is also helping organize the 4th Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference. Co-organized by International Association of Wildland Fire and the International Association for Fire Safety Science, it will be held in the United States and Russia in 2013. Best Paper Awards A paper co-authored by Shawn Burdette, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Dhammika Bandara, a 2011 PhD recipient, was featured on the back cover of Chemical Society Reviews (Issue 5, 2012). wpi.edu/+research

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