On 1 January, Norman Chonacky replaced Francis Sullivan as the editor of Computing in Science & Engineering magazine, a copublication of the American Institute of Physics and the IEEE Computer Society. Chonacky was recently appointed to a research fellowship at the Center for United Nations Studies in the department of political science at Yale University. Sullivan now directs the IDA Center for Computing Sciences in Bowie, Maryland.
The Materials Research Society bestowed three MRS Medals last December during its fall meeting in Boston. Jacob Israelachvili, professor in three departments—chemical engineering, materials science, and biomolecular science and engineering—at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was cited for his “work on adhesion and friction, which has revolutionized the understanding of molecular mechanisms responsible for these technologically vital phenomena.” Toh-Ming Lu, the Ray Palmer Baker Distinguished Professor of Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and Sunil K. Sinha...
