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William Massie, associate professor of
architecture, won the Third Annual MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects
Award. The award, sponsored by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and
the Museum of Modern Art, is one of the most prestigious of its
kind. Massie received the honor for building an urban beach in
New York City. The beach included brightly colored artificial
ponds and laser-cut steel structures. 2/10/03
Achille Messac, associate professor of
mechanical, aeronautical, and nuclear engineering, has been elected
general chair of the 10th Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis
and Optimization, a major international conference hosted by American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the International
Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO).
Messac will bring the conference to Albany in September 2004,
and plans for Rensselaer students and faculty to play a leading
role. Messac also currently serves as the chair of the AIAA MDO
Technical Committee. 2/10/03
Robert Veryzer, associate professor in
Rensselaer's Lally School of Management and Technology, has written
a chapter titled "Marketing and the Development of Innovative
New Products" for The International Handbook on Innovation.
The publication-a compilation of research from leading academics
around the world on the topic of innovation, its types and levels,
its criteria, its development, its management, its specificity
in various domains and contexts, and societal demands on it-addresses
innovation from the viewpoints of psychology, sociology, technology,
philosophy, and business, to name a few. It is due out in April.
2/10/03
The Rensselaer football team held its season-ending
banquet recently and announced the team's award-winners for the
2002 season. Ten awards were handed out by 14th-year head coach
Joe King and his staff, who led the Engineers to an 8-2 record
and a win in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Northeast
Championship Game. Named co-Offensive Most Valuable Players were
junior quarterback Dan Cole and senior wide receiver Evan Cochran.
For a complete list of awards, go to http://www.rpi.edu/dept/athletics/features/football20403.htm.
2/10/03
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