Suzie H. Pun, Bioengineering - was awarded the 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers , the nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. "The results of her research can have a widespread and significant impact on genetic engineering by enabling direct treatment of diseased cells and tissues. Her integrated research and education plans include summer science camps for eighth- and ninth-grade students and a job-shadowing program. These activities are expected to have a positive impact on middle-school students from underrepresented groups." http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=107118&org=NSF&from=news

Miqin Zhang, Materials Science and Engineering - recently received nearly $3M in grants from the National Institutes of Health to conduct research in the development of nanoparticle conjugates for cancer diagnosis and treatment, and cell-based sensors for detection of chemical and biological agents and drug screening. An article about Miqin's work can be viewed at: http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=13558&ch=biotech

Denice D. Denton, former Dean of the College of Engineering and PI for the UW ADVANCE grant - has been selected as the winner of the 2006 Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award (WISA). Each year, the WISA recognizes one individual, program or organization from the United States that encourages the advancement of girls and women in the natural and physical sciences, mathematics, engineering, computer science and technology. Dr. Denton is currently Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

More information can be found at: http://www.mmo.org/subcat.php?cat_id=14&subcat_id=54&art_id=173

Eve Riskin, Electrical Engineering and ADVANCE - has been selected by the Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network to receive the group's first University Change Agent Award of 2006. The award is given to individuals who have had a positive impact at their institution on the climate for women in the fields of engineering, science, math and technology.

Dr. Sheila Edwards, ADVANCE Internal Evaluator - has been appointed as Interim Vice President for Minority Affairs and Vice Provost for Diversity, effective May 15, 2006. For more information, please see: http://www.uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=23815

Sarah Keller, Chemistry - has been awarded a 2006 UW Distinguished Teching Award. For more information, see the UWeek article at: http://uwnews.org/uweek/uweekarticle.asp? articleID=23397

UW ADVANCE - UWeek, the UW's staff and faculty newspaper, has recently recognized the ADVANCE program for their influence on the University's Leadership, Community, and Values Initiative. The article can be found in Uweek.org: "Initative team moves forward based on survey results."

Isabella Novik, Mathematics - has recently been selected as a Sloan Research Fellow.

Susan Eggers, Computer Science and Engineering - has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for contributions to the design and evaluations of advanced processor architectures." Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education" and to the "pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education." The annnouncement can be found in the article: "National Academy of Engineering Elects 76 Members and Nine Foreign Associates"

Deirdre Meldrum, Electrical Engineering - has been appointed as the Dean of ASU's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. Information can be found online at: http://www.asu.edu/news/stories/200602/20060207_meldrumdean.htm

Cindy Atman, Industrial Engineering - was named a Fellow of AAAS for her outstanding leadership and mentorship in the field of engineering education. Dr. Atman serves as the director of the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching and the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education. Visit the UWeek article for more information about the AAAS Fellow announcement.

Mary Lidstrom, Chemical Engineering and Microbiology - was named Fellow of the AAAS and winner of the American Society for Microbiology Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award, for graduate mentorship and teaching. She is the first woman to receive the AMS Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award. Information about the AMS Microbiology Teaching Award can be found at http://www.asm.org/Academy/index.asp?bid=2311. Dr. Lidstrom's AAAS Fellow award honors fundamental applications of genetics and genomics to industrially-important microorganisms and for pioneering development of technology for multiparameter single cell analysis. Visit the UWeek article for more information about the AAAS Fellow announcement.

Eve Riskin, Electrial Engineering and ADVANCE - was appointed Associate Dean for Organizational Infrastructure in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington. She will continue serving as Director of the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change.

Mary Lidstrom, Chemical Engineering and Microbiology - was named Vice Provost for Research at the University of Washington. The announcement was made in an October 6th, 2005 University Week article.

Ana Mari Cauce, Psychology - was named Executive Vice Provost. The announcement was made in a September 29, 2005 University Week article. Professor Cauce will continue to serve as the UW ADVANCE PI.

Lih Y. Lin, Electrical Engineering - selected as a participant in the National Academy of Engineering's 2005 Frontiers in Engineering Conference. This program selects outstanding engineers ages 30-45 for their cutting edge research.

Marjorie Olmstead, Physics - and the UW Center for Nanotechnology was recently awarded a 5-year, $3.2 million NSF IGERT grant. Professor Olmstead is the lead investigator on the grant. See http://www.uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=12264 for a UWeek article discussing the award.

Keiko Torii, Biology - was recently featured in the Japenese media and University Week for her research work on plant research, in particular understanding how plants control stomata patterns. See http://www.uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=11074 for the UWeek article.

Susan Eggers, Computer Science - has been appointed as the new holder of the Microsoft Professorship

Denice Denton, Dean, College of Engineering - has been named chancellor of the University of California - Santa Cruz. Information can be found online at: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2004/December/15/local/stories/05local.htm

Deirdre Meldrum, Electrical Engineering - elected as an IEEE Fellow for her "contributions to genome automation."

Mari Ostendorf, Electrical Engineering - elected as an IEEE Fellow for her "contributions to statistical modeling of speech signals."

Barbara Wakimoto, Biology - was named an Education Fellow in the Life Sciences by the National Academies of Science.

Karen Goldberg, Chemistry - is the director of the Center for Activation and Transformation of Strong Bonds, one of the first three national chemical bonding centers established by the National Science Foundation as a means of seeking solutions to major problems in chemistry. Learn more here: "New national research center at UW aims to solve big chemistry problems"

Tara Javidi, Electrical Engineering - received an NSF CAREER Award for Cross-Layer Integrated Protocol Design for Broadband Wireless Data Networks: A Microeconomic Approach. This research provides a novel methodology that addresses issues across various layers of protocol stack, and integrates interdisciplinary studies into the academic curriculum.

Suzie Pun, Bioengineering - was selected for the School of Medicine's Marian E. Smith Junior Faculty Research Award. She is developing methods of overcoming barriers to macromolecule transport to intracellular targets, with applications in drug delivery and medical imaging.

Denice Denton, Dean, College of Engineering - among nine scholars honored by the White House with a 2003 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. This award is in recognition of her role as a national leader in engineering education.

Jan Spyridakis, Techincal Communications - won the Jay R. Gould National Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Society of Technical Communications for her pedagogical strengths of incorporating research into her classes and challenging students to learn in new ways. The award is given to emphasize a professor's specific strengths in teaching and mentoring.

Ann Nelson, Physics - won a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in cosmological physics, particularly theories of dark energy, a mysterious force that is believed to counter gravity and therefore is allowing the expansion of the universe to accelerate.

Mina Aganagic, Physics - received a 2003 Sloan Research Fellowship for her work on string theory. The Sloan Research Fellowship program recognizes the nation’s most outstanding young faculty members in specific science fields.

Joyce Yen, ADVANCE - received the 2004 Outstanding Young Alumni Award from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Mari Ostendorf, Electrical Engineering - received a National Science Foundation Medium Information Technology Research award entitled "Translation Technology for Language Modeling."

Beth Kolko, Technical Communications- featured in a BBC online article on technology, "Uzbek gamers pick up computer skills." Her research is on information technology adoption and adaptation in Central Asia.

Denice Denton, Dean, College of Engineering - elected as an IEEE Fellow for her "leadership in engineering education and faculty mentoring."

Deirdre Meldrum, Electrical Engineering - selected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her "innovative engineering research and leadership in genome automation."

Lih Y. Lin, Electrical Engineering - selected as a TR100/2003. This award is given to the top 100 young innovators under 35. Dr. Lin was selected for building micromirror switches for faster, all-optical telecommunications networks.

Susan Eggers, Computer Science and Engineering - became a Fellow in both IEEE "for contributions to the design of multithreaded and shared memory multiprocessors and compiler technology" and ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery). In August 2003, she received a medium NSF ITR award entitled "WaveScalar, A New Approach to Scalable System Design," to design and evaluate a distributed dataflow architecture and its implementation, with Mark Oskin and Tom Anderson.

Gretchen Kalonji, Materials Science and Engineering - received the iNEER Leadership Award for 2003. This award is given to an individual or individuals for visionary leadership, significant innovations and broad and long-lasting, positive impact on international engineering education and research. The ideas and/or work for which such a leader is recognized with this award are of an over-arching nature with global impact.

Marina Meila, Statistics - received a National Science Foundation Information Technology Research award entitled "Spectral clustering of link data -- theory and algorithms." This work was based, in part, on her ADVANCE Transitional Support Program funding. The research done with the NSF funding will continue the work she started with the TSP.

Marti Bosma, Biology - received a National Science Foundation award entitled "Spontaneous activity in mouse hindbrain motor neurons." This work was based, in part, on her ADVANCE Transitional Support Program funding.

Julianne Dalcanton, Astronomy - received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2002. She also received a 2003 NSF CAREER award for her proposal entitled "The Early History of Galaxy Disk Formation."

Jennifer Turns, Technical Communication - received a 2003 NSF CAREER award. The title is "Using Portfolios to Promote Knowledge Integration in Engineering Education."

Lyatt Jaeglé, Atmospheric Sciences - received a 2003 NSF CAREER award. Her topic is "Global Modeling of Long-Range Transport of Tropospheric Ozone and Mercury."

Kristi Morgansen, Aeronautics and Astronautics - received a 2003 NSF CAREER award. The title is "Coordinated Control from Deformable Virtual Structures with Dynamic Communication."

Loyce Adams, Applied Math - was awarded an ADVANCE TSP for Winter Quarter 2003. This award is allowing her to have a teaching-free quarter to prepare papers for publication in preparation for promotion and provides graduate student support for further research efforts. She also received a $342,500 NSF supplemental grant for the UW GK-12 Program in Mathematics which places graduate students as math specialists in K-12 classrooms, a program which she directs.

Cindy Atman, Industrial Engineering - awarded an ADVANCE TSP for Spring Quarter 2002. During this time, she wrote a proposal to NSF to establish the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education. NSF funded this innovative proposal.

Mary Lidstrom, Chemical Engineering - received an award from The Howard Hughes Medical Center for Learning at the Life Science/Engineering Boundary.

Marjorie Olmstead, Physics - elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2003 for "innovative studies of interface formation between dissimilar materials, especially the competition between thermodynamic and kinetic constraints in controlling morphologies and properties of heterostructures."