Accolades

Dora Crouch, professor emerita of architectural history in the School of Architecture, recently published Traditions in Architecture: Africa, America, Asia and Oceania. The copiously illustrated volume is published by Oxford University Press, which published Crouch's earlier book, Water Management in Ancient Greek Cities. 9/18/00

Mary Good, Rensselaer trustee, is one of five recipients of the 1999 Heinz Awards. Good received the Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy, and Employment for "her singular vision in working to build an economy fueled by scientific knowledge and technological know-how." Good is a managing member for Venture Capital Investors. Previously, she served four years as the Under Secretary for Technology for the Technology Administration in the Department of Commerce. Good is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a past president of the American Chemical Society, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Institute of Chemists and the Royal Society of Chemistry. 9/18/00

Carlos Inclan, a lighting design specialist with the Lighting Research Center, has received the annual Richard Kelly Grant for 2000 from the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. A lighting designer since 1985, Inclan has designed lighting for almost 50 major commercial and residential projects around the world. He has a degree in architecture from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and is working toward a master's degree in lighting from the LRC. 9/18/00

Roger Grice, clinical assistant professor of technical communication, was elected to Lambda Chi Alpha International Fraternity's prestigious Order of Merit, the highest achievement the international fraternity offers for alumni volunteer service. Grice has served as a chapter adviser to Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at Rensselaer since 1995, and has been involved with the chapter at his alma mater, Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, since 1965. Additionally, he currently serves as chairman of the Leadership Committee to the Greek Relationship Statement Task Force, and is an honorary initiate of the Order of Omega Greek Honor Society. 9/18/00

Chip Lawrence '67 has received the 2000 Mitchell Prize. Lawrence and co-authors Andrew Neuwald (Cold Spring Harbor Labs) and Jun Liu (Stanford Univ.) were recognized for their paper in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, "Markovian Structures in Biological Sequence Alignments," (March 1999). The Mitchell Prize is awarded in recognition of an outstanding paper that describes how a Bayesian analysis has solved an important applied problem. 9/18/00

Chjan Lim, associate professor of math, has been named a visiting professor at National University of Singapore. He will be working on new applications of dynamical systems theory, and on applications of the Monte-Carlo method to statistical mechanics of fluid turbulence. 9/18/00