Division Member Honors

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Date: Feb. 8, 2008

WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 65 new members and nine foreign associates, NAE President Charles M. Vest announced today. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,227 and the number of foreign associates to 194.

Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature," 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."

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RAY HENRY BAUGHMAN, Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry and director of the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson. For pioneering novel applications of conjugated polymers and related nanomaterials.

STEPHEN Z.D. CHENG, dean, College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. For the development of materials for liquid crystal displays and the elucidation of structure-property relationships in polymeric materials.

THOMAS P. RUSSELL, professor, polymer science and engineering department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. For contributions to the processing of thin-block copolymer films to achieve well-organized nanostructures.