For the Record: Cheers

Cheers is a monthly listing of honors and awards received by faculty, staff and students plus recent appointments and promotions. Contributions must be submitted in writing and be accompanied by a phone number.

 

Applied Physics Laboratory

Dan Ondercin has received a Certificate of Approval award from Col. Christopher Parker, joint project manager of the Nuclear-Biological-Chemical Containment Avoidance, in recognition of his critical support of production qualification testing of the Joint Biological Standoff Detection System at the Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, earlier this year.

Brian Geesaman and Dan Henderson have been selected by the Association of Old Crows (the Electronic Warfare and Information Operations Association) to receive prestigious national awards this month for their work on the EA-6B program. Geesaman will receive the 2003 Offensive Information Warfare Award, given annually for significant advances in development or application of technologies for tactics related to information attacks on the adversary. Henderson will receive the 2003 Clark Fiester Command and Control Warfare Award, presented annually for outstanding achievement in development or application of C2 warfare strategies or systems.

 

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Craig Fletcher, a fellow in Comparative Medicine (veterinary) and a doctoral candidate in the Pathology Department's pathobiology graduate program, has been awarded a K08 Mentored Clinical Scientists Development Grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fletcher, working in the lab of James Hildreth, will be studying the effect of statins on HIV biology. Fletcher's preliminary research suggests that statins, widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering medicines, can inhibit HIV-1 and SIV infection and replication in vitro.

 

School of Nursing

Maryann Fralic, professor and director of corporate and foundation relations, was highlighted in Johnson & Johnson's Annual Report for starting the Business of Nursing program at the School of Nursing and for her work with the Nursing Executive Center of the Advisory Board Company.

 

Whiting School of Engineering

Robert E. Green Jr., a professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department and the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, was recently honored by the National Aeronautics and Space Agency for outstanding contributions to the Space Shuttle Columbia investigation team. He received his award at a ceremony held Aug. 8 at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.

Charles Meneveau, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's ninth annual Frontiers of Engineering symposium. The three-day event will bring together the nation's top engineers age 30 to 45 who are performing leading-edge engineering research and technical work. The 83 participants--from industry, academia and government--were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations and chosen from a field of nearly 170 applicants.

 
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