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Lange Awarded Fulbright Scholarship

Assistant Professor of History Lou Ann Lange has been honored as a 2006 fall Fulbright scholar grantee by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. She is spending the fall semester of 2006 in Cluj, Romania, and the spring semester of 2007 in Lasi, Romania.

Clarkson CREST Director is VHA Career Scientist
Charles J. Robinson, director of Clarkson's Center for Rehabilitation Engineering, Science & Technology has been awarded an additional seven-year appointment as a Senior Rehabilitation Research Career Scientist by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Robinson was the first scientist in the entire VHA system to receive this recognition.

NEA Grant Preserves Slice of American Jazz Music History
Communication and Media professors Stephen Doheny-Farina and Johndan Johnson-Eilola have been awarded a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve an archive of tapes, films and photos developed in the 1960s and '70s by musician and social activist Juma Sultan, a man most known as percussionist for Jimi Hendrix's band "Gypsy Suns and Rainbows."

The objective of this project is to preserve and digitize an aging and unprotected archive of reel-to-reel recordings, film and photos that document a period of American cultural heritage commonly referred to as the Black Avant Garde. In addition, the grant will fund the development of a documentary film and an interactive Web site dedicated to communicating this important history to the public.

2007 National Rankings
U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Colleges 2007" issue is out and once again bears good news for Clarkson's professional schools. Clarkson was ranked among the 127 best colleges and its undergraduate engineering program was recognized as one of the "Best Engineering Programs" whose highest degree is a doctorate, with a ranking of 86.

In addition, U.S. News rated Clarkson's School of Business' Supply Chain Management program the 10th best in the nation. The Supply Chain Management program, highly acclaimed by employers of Clarkson graduates, shared the number 10 ranking with University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and Indiana University, MIT, Michigan State University and Carnegie Mellon, among others.

The Washington Monthly's College rankings, an alternative to U.S. News & World Report's "Best Colleges" Guide, ranks Clarkson number 106 among national universities. The magazine ranked 245 of the estimated 4,500 higher educational institutions in the U.S. Rankings were developed by assigning values in three distinct areas: Community Service, Research and Social Mobility.

According to a survey by The Princeton Review magazine that asked 115,000 students at 361 top colleges to rate their schools, Clarkson University is one of the "Best Northeastern Colleges." The results were published in the 2007 edition of Princeton's "Best 361 Colleges" book.

Clarkson's undergraduate program in innovation and entrepreneurship ranked #22 among 700 U.S. higher educational institutions by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.

Student Wins Tau Beta Pi Scholarship
Senior chemical engineering major Samuel M. Gorton has received a Tau Beta Pi scholarship for under-graduate study for the 2006-07 academic year. Scholarships are awarded on the competitive criteria of high scholarship, campus leadership, service and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession. All scholars are members of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society.

Clarkson Student Wins Virtual Challenge
Clarkson senior Zachary J. Colgan, a computer science major, has won first place and a cash prize of $5,000 in the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge, sponsored by VMware Inc., the Palo Alto-based global leader in software for industry-standard virtualized desktops and servers. VMware sponsored the competition to foster continued innovation in developing virtual appliances, which are pre-built, pre-configured and ready-to-run software applications packaged with the operating system into virtual machines.

Professor Authors a History of Midwifery 
Associate Professor of History Laura Ettinger has published a book titled Nurse-Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession. The book describes the occupation of the nurse-midwife beginning with its development in the 1920s and through the last century to the role it plays in health care today.

Minko Part of NSF-funded Research Team
Sergiy Minko, Egon Matijević Chaired Professor of Chemistry, received a $150,000 NSF grant this fall that will allow him to work with scientists in both the U.S. and Germany to seek to develop smart responsive polymer materials with the ability to switch interactions and to adapt their chemical composition based on external signals.

Minko also published a book, Responsive Polymer Materials: Design and Applications, in March; it includes articles from leading polymer researchers worldwide.

Weiss Named Fellow of American Academy in Berlin
Professor of History Sheila Weiss has been named a Daimler-Chrysler Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Weiss will spend the fall semester in Berlin working on a biography of the German human geneticist Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer (1896-1969), the dissertation advisor of the notorious Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele.

On September 21, over 90 companies and organizations participated in a Career Fair in the ERC and Cheel Campus Center; corporations such as General Electric, Lockheed Martin, and Proctor & Gamble attended, as did many smaller organizations. Clarkson seniors came out in droves looking for full-time positions for after graduation, and other students visited employers to learn about internships or co-op opportunities. Many Clarkson alumni returned to campus as recruiters, looking to hire other Clarkson graduates for their companies.

Hopke Named IARA Fellow 
Philip K. Hopke, the Bayard D. Clarkson Distinguished Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and director of Clarkson's Center for Air Resources Engineering and Science (CARES), has been elected a Fellow of the International Aerosol Research Assembly (IARA), a nonprofit organization of scientists, engineers and environmentalists sharing technical advances in the field of aerosol research.

The Clarkson Golden Knights played their 2,000th game on October 7. (L-R) The Golden Knight, Commissioner of the ECAC Hockey League Steve Hagwell, Professor Emeritus Bill Bradley, President Tony Collins and Director of Athletics Steve Yianoukos.

Student Named EPA Graduate Fellow
Kevin T. Shanley, a mechanical engineering Ph.D. candidate, was one of approximately 100 graduate students in environmental fields of study selected as 2006 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science to Achieve Results (STAR) graduate fellows. Doctoral students receive $37,000 per year for a maximum of three years. Shanley and his fellow winners were honored at a Washington, D.C., reception in September.

The prestigious EPA STAR graduate fellowship is the only federal program designed exclusively for students pursuing advanced degrees in environmental sciences. The program is highly competitive, with only seven percent of applicants being awarded fellowships.

Stimeling Named Dean of Students
Kurt W. Stimeling, formerly associate dean of students at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, has joined Clarkson in the role of dean of students. The areas reporting to Stimeling include: Residence Life, Campus Safety & Security, Student Organizations, and Co-curricular Education Programs.

Schulman Awarded Fellowship 
Lawrence S. Schulman, professor of Physics at Clarkson University, has been awarded the Martin-Gutzwiller Fellowship 2005/2006 of the Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems.

Clarkson Army Cadet Wins Medal of Honor Scholarship 
U.S. Army cadet Mickala S. Henson, a senior majoring in Aerospace Engineering, received the Medal of Honor Scholarship in recognition of her demonstrated leadership performance and potential, as well as her strong commitment to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces. Each year, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Educational Foundation, in partnership with the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation, awards a $3,000 annual scholarship to one outstanding student enrolled in each of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) for the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.

CARES Receives $1.6 Million in Lab Equipment From State
In conjunction with New York State's Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR) award for environmental research, Clarkson's Center for Air Resources Engineering and Science (CARES) has received an additional $1.642 million in equipment that will be used to support the Center's research on ambient and indoor air pollution.

Dhaniyala Receives NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering Suresh Dhaniyala has received the prestigious National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. As part of this honor, Dhaniyala will receive some $400,000 in grant funds from the NSF over a five-year period to support his research project, "New Techniques for Aerosol/Cloud Sampling and Analysis." Dhaniyala's project focuses on the development of new instruments and techniques to greatly improve the understanding of aerosol-cloud processes and their role in global climate change.

Milton Kerker Endowed Chair Named 
Evgeny Katz has been named the Milton Kerker Endowed Chair of Colloid Science. He comes to Clarkson from The Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is an expert in colloid science, nanomaterials and bioelectronics and has authored or co-authored 320 articles for scholarly journals, book chapters and conferences. Katz holds more than 20 international patents. He has taught and conducted research at the world's top universities in Russia, Spain, Germany and Jerusalem.

The Milton Kerker Endowed Chair in Colloid Science was created in 2003 in honor of Professor Emeritus Milton Kerker, who made an unparalleled contribution in elevating the stature of Clarkson's School of Science during 42 years of service, from 1949 –1991. Funding for the chair was provided by an endowment established by the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation to support colloid research.

Faculty Promotions and Appointments

• Professor of Chemical Engineering Ruth E. Baltus has been appointed chair of the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering.
• Assistant Professor of Computer Science Jenna Matthews was promoted to associate professor and granted tenure.
• Assistant Professor of Anthropology Annegret D. Staiger has been promoted to associate professor and granted tenure.
• Associate Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Ian Suni has been promoted to professor.
• Associate Professor of Mathematics Erik Bollt has been promoted to professor.
• Associate Professor of Physics Dipankar Roy has been promoted to professor.
• Assistant Professor of Biology Michael Twiss has been promoted to associate professor and granted tenure.

Ruth Baltus	Jenna Matthews	Annegret Staiger	Ian Suni
Erik Bollt	Dipankar Roy	Michael Twiss