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Student-athlete Grant Cochran has been selected to the 2004 ESPN the Magazine National Academic All-America College Division Football Second Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. A junior from Kent, Wash., Cochran is a biomedical engineering major with a 3.80 cumulative grade point average. A third-year varsity performer, Cochran is a multiple Academic All-League selection, a Dean's List student, and a squad leader in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps. Rensselaer has now had nine National Academic All-Americans in the past 10 years, including three Cochran brothers. During the 2003-04 academic year, Rensselaer had the most National Academic All-Americans of any Division III school with eight and ranked second in the entire nation among all divisions. James Crivello, professor of organic and polymer chemistry, recently presented invited lectures titled "The Synthesis and Photopolymerization of Biorenewable Monomers" to Siena College and University of Missouri — Kansas City. Jon Finke, a senior systems programmer in networking and telecommunications, presented a paper, "Meta Change Queue: Tracking Changes to People, Places and Things" at the LISA 2004 (Large Installation System Administration) conference in Atlanta, Ga. Finke served on the program committee for the LISA conference, held Nov. 14-19. Roger Grice, professor of language, literature, and communications, is the founding editor of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) Press. With two associate acquisitions editors, he will publish book manuscripts for STC, an international association with more than 25,000 members. Tomie Hahn, associate professor of arts, has been elected to a three-year term as council member of the Society for Ethnomusicology, serving from 2004-2007. Jeffrey Hannigan, associate professor of science and technology studies, was appointed to the advisory board of the Design Centre of Portugal, for which he participated in a panel discussion on "Responsive and Interactive Technologies" at the Design & Emotion conference in Ankara, Turkey. John Harrington, dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, was elected to a three-year term on the board of trustees of WMHT Educational Communications at the public television and radio organization's 51st annual meeting on Nov. 17
Ravi Kane, the Merck Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been named to the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce's second annual "Tech Valley's Hot 10" list. The list recognizes 10 businessmen and women, scientists, and administrators as leaders and innovators in the technology field. Linda McGown, professor and chair of the Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, presented a plenary lecture titled "Aptamer Affinity Reagents in Capillary Electrophoresis and Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization – Time of Flight – Mass Spectrometry" at the Latin American Symposium on Biotechnology, Biomedical, Biopharmaceutical, and Industrial Applications of Capillary Electrophoresis and Microchip Technology in Toledo, Spain, on Nov. 5-9. The paper was co-written by graduate students Adam Connor and Lawrence Dick Jr. Ken Simons, associate professor of economics, has been named to the editorial board of the International Journal of Technology Marketing. Ron Sun, professor of cognitive science, has been invited to be a member of the program committee of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS2005), to be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands in July 2005. Additionally, Sun was chair of the cognitive science track of the 11th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'2004), Calcutta, India. Nov. 22-25. Student-athlete Ed Sellitto, from Hauppauge, N.Y, has been selected to the 2004 ESPN National Academic All-America College Division Men's Soccer Third Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). This is the first time Sellitto, a junior chemical engineering major with a 4.0 cumulative grade point average, has been honored nationally. He was named to the Academic All-District 1 First Team each of the past two seasons. Last year, Rensselaer had the most National Academic All-Americans of any Division III school with eight and ranked second in the entire nation among all divisions. |
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