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Japanese Delegation Visits College
A Japanese delegation led by Hiroshi Saito, governor of Yamagata, Japan, visited the College of Engineering and Applied Science Aug. 1 as part of a three-day visit to Colorado to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Colorado-Yamagata sister-state relationship. Governor Saito, who was accompanied by Kozaburo Ishikawa, director of Yamagata’s International Affairs Office, was seeking to learn more about CU-Boulder’s collaborations with industry and government, particularly in the area of aerospace engineering. The visitors visited with college and campus administrators, heard presentations on the various research centers in aerospace engineering sciences, toured the ITLL and DLC, and then visited LASP on the East Research Campus. They also visited the University of Denver, which hosts students from Yamagata University, before going on to Boeing in Seattle.
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High School Honors Institute
A total of 271 high school students attended the college’s 39^th annual High School Honors Institute July 23 through July 26. The event, which helps to introduce the field of engineering to high school juniors and seniors, was coordinated by Lelei Finau-Starkey and Gretchen Lee in the Dean's Office with the help of 37 student group leaders, 28 industry engineers, and 11 faculty departmental coordinators. Many other faculty and graduate students also gave presentations and demonstrations.

HSHI provides hands-on learning activities in all of the college’s engineering majors to help students in their college decision-making. Students were able to view two engineering majors in full-day sessions and two more majors in overview sessions.  Feedback from the students has been very positive, and the Dean’s Office would like to thank the faculty and students who helped make this institute a success.
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DEAA Nominations Due Sept. 20
Please note that nominations for the 2007 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards are due by Sept. 20. The awards, which will be presented in April, give special recognition to engineering alumni who have distinguished themselves since graduation. A DEA Award also may be given in a special category for non-alumni who have provided special service to the college. For details and nomination form, go to http://engineering.
colorado.edu/alumni/alumni_awards.htm.
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Honors and Awards
Congratulations to the following individuals on their outstanding achievements.

Faculty
Dan Frangopol of civil, environmental, and architectural engineering received the T.Y. Lin Medal for outstanding contributions to bridge maintenance, safety, and life-cycle cost at the Third International Conference on Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS'06) in Portugal.

Robin Shandas of mechanical engineering is one of five principal investigators awarded a $12-14 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for the study of pulmonary hypertension in children. The grant is part of NIH’s Specialized Centers of Clinically Oriented Research program, which is aimed at translating basic research into the clinical arena. Robin also was selected to receive an NIH mid-career award that will provide $700,000 over five years for translational research and training of MD and PhD students.

Conrad Stoldt of mechanical engineering has received several nanotechnology research grants totaling about $800,000 from the Army Research Office, DARPA, The Women’s Health Network, The Cancer League of Colorado, and the CU/NIST Seed Grant Program.

Scott Palo of aerospace engineering sciences has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs to continue his research program at the South Pole in conjunction with Jim and Susan Avery of ECE, CIRES and Colorado Research Associates. The research, which uses radar to study the middle atmosphere, will be funded at $1.4 million over the next five years.

Jeff Thayer and Xinzhao Chu of aerospace engineering sciences received more than $700,000 in research funding from the National Science Foundation Aeronomy Program or advancing lidar technology and upper atmosphere science as part of a consortium with Colorado State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Colorado Research Associates.

Kristi Anseth of chemical and biological engineering has been awarded a Dean's Faculty Fellowship for 2006-07.

Students
Jeffrey Lyng, who received his MS in civil engineering in May, was awarded the John and Barbara Yellott Award at Solar2006 in Denver in July. The award is given annually by the American Solar Energy Society to recognize an outstanding graduate student concentrating on the field of solar energy. Jeff served as the project leader for the 2005 CU Solar Decathlon team and performed research on the implementation of solar energy in the Colorado production home market, working with Built Green Colorado to develop a “Solar Ready” package for their home rating system. This marks the second consecutive year this award has been given to a student in the college's Building Systems Program.

Steven Bethard, a PhD student in computer science, has been selected to receive a DissertationGrant Award from the Department of Homeland Security. The award provides $10,000 for a 12-month period and was given in recognition of his successful participation in the DHS Scholarship and Fellowship Program. He works in the Center for Spoken Language Research with a research group developing resources to extract semantic information from natural language text.
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Faculty and Staff
Welcome to the following new college staff: