The National Academy of Engineering, at its annual meeting in Washington, DC, in October, bestowed its Arthur M. Bueche Award on Robert A. Frosch. He was recognized for having “a career of advances in aerospace and automotive technology, and ‘industrial ecology,’ and for administration of research and development in industry, government, and academia.” He is a senior research fellow with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Also at its annual meeting, the NAE presented its Founders Award to Carver Mead, Gordon and Betty Moore Emeritus Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech. The academy acknowledged Mead for his “visionary contributions in the field of microelectronics, including VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) technology and computational neural systems.”
On 1 December, Vladimir Agranovich began his appointment to the NanoTech Institute of the University of Texas at...
