A variety of organizations have named the following 14 Michigan Engineering faculty as fellows, a designation given to those who've demonstrated exceptional scholarship and innovative thinking.

Victor Li, the E. Benjamin Wylie Collegiate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been named a fellow of the World Innovation Foundation.

David Martin, professor, MSE, BME, has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.

Ron Gilgenbach, professor, NERS, Amir Mortazawi, associate professor, EECS, and Jeff Fessler, professor, EECS and BME, were elected fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Amy Cohn, assistant professor, IOE, has been named a Sloan Industry Studies Fellow.

Michael Wellman, professor, EECS, has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Dale Karr, associate professor, NAME, was elected a fellow of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.

Werner Dahm and James Driscoll, professors, AERO, have been named fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Named professorships are among the highest awards the College and University can bestow on faculty. They're indicative of scholarly excellence and they play an integral role in developing an environment where the finest scholars can flourish.

Khalil Najafi, EECS and BME, has been named Schlumberger Professor of Engineering.

James Barber, professor, ME, Alec Gallimore, professor, AERO, and Steven Wright, professor, CEE, have been named Arthur F. Thurnau Professors.

Stephen Forrest, EECS and MSE, has joined the College as William Gould Dow Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering. He also serves as the University's vice president for research.

Jun Ni, ME, has been named Shien-Ming (Sam) Wu Collegiate Professor of Manufacturing.

Levi Thompson, professor, ChE, has been named Richard Balzhiser Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Sharon Glotzer, professor, ChE and MSE, and associate professors Mike Solomon, ChE, and Nick Kotov, ChE, BME and MSE, have been examining the self-assembly of colloidal particles at the nanometer- and micrometer-length scales. Their work was featured in the December 2004 AIChE Journal.

Solomon was featured again, working with his former graduate student Ali Mohraz to publish "2Direct Visualization of Colloidal Rod Assembly by Confocal Microscope," the cover article for the June 7, 2005, Langmuir.

Joerg Lahann, assistant professor, ChE, BME and MSE, and MIT's Dr. Robert S. Langer co-authored a cover article on dynamically switchable surfaces for the March 2005 issue of MRS Bulletin.

Lhann and Michael Mayer, ChE and BME, both assistant professors, have received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Lahann also was named to the Technology Review list of 100 Top Young Innovators under age 35, and was selected for inclusion in the "People You Should Know" section of the Illinois pavilion at Bio2006.

Jerome Lynch, assistant professor, CEE and EECS, has received the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research.

Wei Shyy, Clarence L. "Kelly\" Johnson Collegiate Professor of Aerospace Engineering, and chair, AOSS, was awarded the 2005 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award.

Zhenli Zhang, research fellow, ChE, and Sharon Glotzer, professor, ChE and MSE, have published their findings on the self-assembly of nanoparticles using sticky patches, in the paper "Self Assembly of Patchy Particles," which appeared in Nano Letters (August 2004).

Nick Kotov, associate professor, ChE, BME and MSE, and his collaborators have published "Inverted Colloidal Crystals as 3-D Cell Scaffolds" about building scaffolds in which cells incubating in different compartments share the same conditions, just as they would if growing in the body. (Langmuir, September 2004).

Daniel Atkins, professor, EECS, has been named to head the National Science Foundation's newly created Office of Cyberinfrastructure, effective June 5, 2006.

Roberto Merlin, professor, EECS, has received the American Physical Society's 2006 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids.

Fawwaz Ulaby, R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering, EECS, has received the 2006 IEEE Edison Medal for a "career of meritorious achievement" in his field.

Dennis Sylvester, associate professor, EECS, has received the U-M 2006 Henry Russel Award.

Igor Markov, assistant professor, EECS, has been honored twice: first, with a National Science Foundation CAREER Award; second, with a Technical Leadership Award from the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Design Automation.

Gary Was, professor, NERS, MSE, has received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Materials Science and Technology Division of the American Nuclear Society.

Erdogan Gulari, professor, ChE, and his collaborators have used short sections of DNA grown on chips to create long synthetic genes. Their paper appeared in Nature (December 2004). News of their work showed up in The New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Terry Kammash, professor emeritus, NERS, has received the American Nuclear Society's 2005 Special Award in the Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion category.

Panos Papalambros, Donald C. Graham Professor of Engineering, ME, Professor Yoram Koren, Paul G. Goebel Professor of Engineering, ME, research fellow Jeremy Michalek (MS ME '01, PhD '05), and ME graduate student Oben Ceryan co-authored "Manufacturing Investment and Allocation in Product Line Design Decision-Making," Which received the ASME 2005 Design Automation Best Paper Award.

Karl Grosh, associate professor, ME and BME, has been recognized on the National Science Foundation website for his pioneering work on micro-machined cochlea.

Tresa Pollock, L.H. and F.E. Van Vlack Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, has received the Lee Hsun Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute for Metals Research.

Gustavo Parra-Montesinos, assistant professor, CEE, received the 2005 American Concrete Institute Young Member Award.