Accolades: Jan. 22, 2002

Ron Eglash, assistant professor of science and technology studies, and Audrey Bennett, assistant professor of language, literature, and communications, will deliver a lecture titled "From Cornrows to Computing: African Fractals in the Classroom" as part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Lecture Series on Science, Mathematics and Technology Education on Jan. 24. 1/22/02

Susan Smith, clinical assistant professor of biology, has been invited to participate in the sixth annual meeting on Genomics, Epigenomics, Proteomics, and Phenomics in Drug Discovery and Diagnosis, which will be held Jan. 28-Feb. 1 at the Lake Tahoe Center. The trip is being supported by the Sloan Foundation. 1/22/02

Richard Siegel, the Robert W. Hunt Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, gave an invited talk, "Rebuilding the Human Body," at the second annual Conference on Regenerative Medicine, Cloning and Stem Cell Biology, held in Washington, Dec. 4. 1/22/02

Roger Wright, professor of materials science and engineering, and his former student, Corrado Noseda, have been selected to receive the Wire Association International's Yokelson Medal for 2001, in recognition of their paper titled "The Effect of Drawing Temperature on the Properties and Annealing Response of Copper Wire." The medal will be formally presented during the WAI's Annual Convention and Wire Expo in Chicago, June 10. 1/22/02