The new awards, created in the spring of 1996, recognize demonstrated excellence and promise of future success in scientific or engineering research, and leadership potential in their respective fields. The talents of these young professionals will create the world of the 21st century. Professor Bertozzi, Department of Mathematics, Duke University received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in May 1991. She was honored for her research on analysis of dynamical systems which established a new way to study mixing in fluid flows, and for pioneering work on finite time singularities in vortex patches which serves as the main reference in the applied mathematics community.
Applications range from de-icing of airplane wings to coating of microchips.
Professor Hagood, Active Materials and Structures Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology received his Ph.D from MIT in June 1991. He was honored for his pioneering achievements in research to adaptively control structural vibrations including design and fabrication of materials, analysis of the structural vibrations, and the creation of active electronic control methodology. This step is essential for advanced Navy shipboard vibration control and high-power sonar projector applications which demand such high levels of electromechanical actuation that a transducer material is driven well beyond its linear response regime to the limits of its performance. Professor Laibinis, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in May 1991. Professor Kineke, University of South Carolina, received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1993.