 Kudos to the following professors.
The 51st Venice Biennale honored visual arts professor Barbara Kruger with the prestigious Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in June. Widely recognized for her provocative pieces combining word and image, Kruger’s work has strong ties to advertising and popular graphics.
Science Spectrum magazine named Mario J. Molina, a Nobel Prize-winning professor of chemistry and biochemistry, as one of the outstanding “trailblazers” in science for exemplary work on the job and in the community.
The National Science Foundation awarded five-year Faculty Early Career Development grants of $400,000 each to
assistant professor of computer science, Serge Belongie, and electrical engineering assistant professor, Nuno Vasconcelos.
Thomas Guy Masters, professor of geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has been elected a fellow of the United Kingdom’s Royal Society. Masters was elected for his work on the make-up of the solid inner and liquid outer cores of Earth.
Bioengineering Department chairman Shu Chien, Political Science Department chairman Gary Cox and pharmacology professor Michael Karin were granted membership in the National Academy of Sciences.
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