Abstract

The National Academy of Engineering elected 69 members and 11 foreign associates last month. The academy now totals 2,250 U.S. members and 211 foreign associates. Individuals are elected to NAE on the basis of outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice, or education. Of the new members and foreign associates, 20 are scientists who work in chemistry-related areas or are members of the American Chemical Society. The chemistry-related new members are James M. Anderson, Case Western Reserve University, for researching interactions between tissue and biomaterials and developing medical devices; Peter L. Andresen, GE Global Research Center, for predicting and preventing stress corrosion cracking in nuclear materials; Lorenz T. Biegler, Car­ne­gie Mellon University, for contributing to large-scale nonlinear optimization theory and its application; Donna G. Blackmond, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif., for studying catalytic organic reactions and chiral amplification; Dawn A. Bonnell, ...

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