Alumni News
Laurence Rosenblatt has joined M. A. Gales & Co., Inc. as its president and chief operating officer. He comes to this executive position after retiring from ExxonMobil Corporation, where he had worked for more than 29 years.
Professor Alain Kornhauser, of operations research and financial engineering, gave the keynote address at the 34th Trenton Computer Festival and Hamfestl, the longest continuously running personal computer show in the world. He spoke on "The Car of Tomorrow."
Four developers of iPhone applications shared their stories at a panel discussion sponsored by Princeton's Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, titled "iPhone Apps: the New high-tech Gold Rush".
Michael E. Wood, who earned a B.S. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton in 2008 and participated in the school's Young Filmmakers program, is pursuing an M.F.A. in film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Over the summer of 2009, Wood created a video library of profiles of prominent Princeton Engineering alumni. In the interview below, Wood talks about the alumni videos, about his own undergraduate experience, and about how his engineering background i
The 2009 Science and Technology Job Fair attracted representatives from more than 40 companies, non-profits and government agencies to Dillon Gym to inform students and faculty about career opportunities.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, have created a $25 million endowment fund at Princeton for the invention, development and use of cutting-edge technology that has the capacity to transform research in the natural sciences and engineering.
Theodore Zoli, a 1988 alumnus and a visiting lecturer in Princeton's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering since 2003, has been selected as a 2009 MacArthur Fellow. Zoli is a structural engineer who has developed novel ways of protecting transportation infrastructure in the event of natural and man-made disasters.
H. Vincent Poor, the dean of Princeton engineering, has been elected as one of three new international fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering of the United Kingdom, a professional organization comprised of Britain’s most eminent and distinguished engineers.
Andrew Houck, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and a past Princeton valedictorian, was named to Technology Review magazine's list of the top 35 young innovators for 2009.
President Barack Obama in June nominated Christopher Hart to be a member of the National Transportation Safety Board.
Alice Gast, the president of Lehigh University, was honored this spring by the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania at their 11th Annual Take the Lead Honoring Women of Distinction awards ceremony. She was among five women from the Lehigh Valley area recognized for their accomplishments and noted as exemplary role models.
Ted Rockwell received the Pioneer Award from the World Nuclear Association (WNA) during its 33rd Symposium held in London in September 2008.
Kelvin Lee '91, the Gore Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware and director of the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, has been received the first Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator Award.
Abraham Haddad received a Fellow Award from the International Federation of Automatic Control at its 17th World Congress held in 2008 in Seoul, Korea. The award is given to an engineer, scientist, technical leader or educator who has made an outstanding contribution in a field related to the focus of the federation.
