Kudos

Shambhu J. Upadhyaya, associate professor of computer science and engineering, and director of the Electronic Test Design Automation Lab, was a panelist at a session on "Defect and Fault Tolerance in Systems on Silicon" during the 13th annual Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems.

Stuart C. Shapiro, professor of computer science and engineering, and Debra T. Burhans, lecturer and doctoral candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, presented a paper titled "Finding Hypothetical Answers with a Resolution Theorem Prover" at the 1999 American Association for Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium on Question Answering Systems.

Kathleen Tornatore-Morse, associate professor in the School of Pharmacy, has been appointed to the Steroid Withdrawal Advisory Committee of the American Society for Transplant Physicians.

Gene D. Morse, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice in the School of Pharmacy and associate dean for clinical education and research, has been named chair of the Adult Pharmacology Committee of the National Institutes of Health AIDS Clinical Trials Group. His lab functions as a Pharmacology Research Resource Unit for the group, which coordinates multi-center clinical trials for evaluating new AIDS therapies.

Rajat Kanti Chakraborti, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, has received a Graduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry from the Environmental Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. This award recognizes achievements of outstanding graduate students working towards degrees in environmental chemistry and engineering.

Robert N. Spengler, clinical assistant professor of pathology, has received a $75,000 grant from the Spinal Cord Research Foundation to study "The Role of Brain-derived TNF-alpha in Mediating Chronic Pain." The goal of the study is to better understand how specific chemicals involved in inflammation may play a role in causing chronic pain.

Thomas A. Szyperski, associate professor of chemistry, has received a $35,000 Research Innovation Award from the Research Corporation's Science Advancement Program to study "NMR-TROSY detected hydration of DNA in supercooled aqueous systems." The Research Corporation is the only U.S. philanthropic foundation wholly dedicated to the advancement of science and technology.