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Alain Karma received Bruce Chalmers Award

CIRCS director Alain Karma is awarded the 2008 Bruce Chalmers Award by TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society) for his interdisciplinary work at the interface of physics and materials science. Award citation: "For his many outstanding and innovative contributions to the science and technology of solidification and for providing exceptional insight into the fundamentals of microstructure evolution". Bruce Chalmers Award: The Bruce Chalmers Award was established in 1989 by the Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division of TMS and is named for Bruce Chalmers, widely acknowledged as the father of modern solidification science. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of solidification science.

Alain Karma receives Bruce Chalmers award at the 2008 TMS
meeting award cermony in New Orleans

Armen Stepanyants receives grand prize in DIADEM challenge

On September 2nd, 2010, Professor Armen Stepanyants was among a handful of scientists to receive a grand prize in the DIADEM challenge, an international scientific contest launched in April 2009 and organized by the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University. To merit a grand prize, a successful computational approach should accurately trace neuronal morphology at least 20 times faster than scientists could accomplish the same task by hand. The jury awarded a grand prize to Professor Stepanyants “for the better overall biological results in the spirit of pure automation.”

Professor Dagmar Sternad awarded an NIH grant

In Fall 2010, Professor Dagmar Sternad was awarded a $1.6M grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate how humans acquire and control sensorimotor skills--the ability to coordinate sensory experiences, such as seeing and hearing, with physical actions. For more information, see
http://www.northeastern.edu/news/stories/2010/09/sternad_research.html

Williams to become member of the NIH MSFC Study Section

Mark C. Williams has been appointed a regular member of the Macromolecular Structure and Function C Study Section in the NIH Center for Scientific Review, for the term beginning July 01, 2011 and ending June 30, 2017. According to a letter from the Center for Scientific Review, members are selected on the basis of their demonstrated competence and achievement in their scientific discipline as evidenced by the quality of research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals, and other significant scientific activities, achievements and honors.  Membership on a study section represents a major commitment of professional time and energy as well as a unique opportunity to contribute to the national biomedical research effort. Study sections review grant applications submitted to the NIH, make recommendations on these applications to the appropriate NIH national advisory council or board, and survey the status of research in their fields of science.  These functions are of great value to medical and allied research in this country.