"Few people have set their sights so high or achieved so much for a population so ethnically diverse, so financially disadvantaged, and so poorly understood by the mainstream culture," said NACME chairman Kay R. Whitmore, president and executive officer of Eastman Kodak Co., in conferring the $10,000 award. The award must be donated to a tax-exempt organization working to increase the number of minority engineers, and Hifi has designated AISES as the recipient of his grant.
Also at Southwest Research Institute, James Lankford Jr., institute scientist in the department of materials sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Metals.
This honor, according to the institute, represents Lankford's "pioneering and innovative research in the growth of cracks, especially very small fatigue cracks, and for the fundamental investigations into the failure mechanisms of ceramics."
The goal of CARB, one of four research centers in the Maryland Biotechnology Institute, ...
