Accolades: Week of May 7, 2001

Howard Brandston, adjunct professor at the Lighting Research Center, has been inducted into the Architectural Lighting Hall of Fame. Brandston is one of nine to receive the honor, issued by Architectural Lighting magazine for the first time this year. The award, which will become an annual event, was created "to establish a permanent recognition of lighting excellence and to celebrate the industry's rich history," says Christina Trauthwein, the magazines' editor-in-chief. Well-known for designing the lighting for the Statue of Liberty as part of a restoration project, Brandston has receive numerous awards for his work. 4/23/01

Two of Curtis Breneman's graduate students won national awards at the recent American Chemical Society Meeting in San Diego. The Excellence Awards were given to Larry Lockwood Jr. for his paper "Comparison of Genetic Algorithm-Based Descriptor Selection Methods for QSAR." Co-authors of the paper are Mark Embrechts, Breneman, and Kristin Bennett. C. Matthew Sundling was honored for his paper "Advances in Electronic Property-Encoded Molecular Shape Descriptors," also co-written by Breneman. The Excellence Awards are chosen on the basis of the quality and significance of the research presented and the strength of the supporting materials. 4/23/01

Natacha DePaola, associate professor of biomedical engineering, recently gave several invited lectures in Japan. She gave the plenary lecture at the Sixth Meeting on Thrombosis and Rheology in Tokyo where she discussed the regulation of endothelial cell function by shear stress gradients. She also addressed the Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering at Tohoku University in Sendai and the Departments of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medical Engineering at the Okayama University Medical School in Okayama. 4/23/01

Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, assistant professor of electrical, computer, and systems engineering, gave invited talks in February at MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on the topic of "Edge-Based Traffic Management in the Internet."4/23/01

Robert Klancko, adjunct assistant professor in the Lally School of Management & Technology and adjunct lecturer of metallurgy in the Department of Engineering at Rensselaer at Hartford, was awarded the Environmental Educator of the Year Award from the Connecticut Outdoor Environmental Education Association (COEEA) "for his excellent service as a classroom teacher, working within the realm of formal education to provide environmental education to his students…" Klancko also received the Materials Engineer of the Year Award from the Materials Societies of Connecticut at their 25th annual Materials Week Banquet. Only eight people have received the award in the 25 years that Materials Week has been observed. Klancko was honored for his 35 years of dedicated service to the materials industry of Connecticut, and for founding Connecticut Materials Week. 4/23/01

Kim Rybczyk, women's basketball coach, Jennifer Hale, assistant coach, Jennifer Parker, and Mark Pesce (team managers) and the entire women's basketball team were invited to appear before the Rensselaer County Legislature on April 10, where they were honored with resolutions commending their outstanding championship season and first-ever Upstate Athletics Association Championship and NCAA Tournament Bid in the team's 26-year history. 4/23/01

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