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| Alumni News and Notes | |
Please let us know if you and your alma mater are mentioned in the news — we'll highlight it here. If you're being interviewed, don't forget to mention that you're a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering! And, as always, tell us your news.
Ashish Oza (MS '03) recently became a senior scientist with St. Jude Medical, Sylmar, California, in the cardiac rhythm management division. He will be developing research protocols and managing post-market clinical studies involving pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators.
Jossein Jadvar |
Jossein Jadvar (MS '84) recently was promoted to associate professor of radiology at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. He holds joint appointments with the USC Department of Biomedical Engineering and with the bioengineering program at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and received a five-year, $3.4 million National Cancer Institute grant to study the diagnostic and prognostic utility of positron emission tomography in metastatic prostate cancer. Jadvar also received a master's degree in computer engineering and PhD in bioengineering from the University of Michigan, an MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and an MPH from the Harvard University School of Public Health. He currently is working toward an executive MBA degree at USC. He and his wife, Mojgan, have a 3-year-old daughter, Donya, and an infant daughter, Delara.
At their annual meeting, members of the Iowa section of the American Society of Civil Engineers elected Timothy J. Monson (BS '86) section president. Monson, who is president of Shuck-Britson Inc. in Des Moines, previously served the Iowa section as vice president, director, secretary and membership chair.
Robert L. Siegrist |
Robert L. Siegrist (BS '72, MS '75, PhD '86) was one of five U.S. scientists invited to participate in the USA-Vietnam Workshop on Water Pollution Prevention Technologies and its related events in Hanoi Nov. 15 through 18. Professor and director of environmental science and engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, Siegrist recently completed service as an expert advisor during the U.S. Government Accountability Office study of the Department of Defense (DOD) ground water cleanup program. The Environmental Protection Agency recently appointed him to its board of scientific counselors subcommittee on land preservation and restoration. Also, the DOD Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program selected the research project, “Reaction and transport processes controlling in situ chemical oxidation of DNAPLs,” of which he was a co-PI, as outstanding project of the year.
Robert J. Smith |
Brian Mullins |
Both attorneys with Wickwire Gavin, one of the nation's largest boutique construction and government contracts law firms, Robert J. Smith (BS '67, BS Naval Science '67, JD '74) and Brian Mullins (BS '77, JD '80) were among five Wisconsin “super lawyers” in construction and surety law selected by their peers. Smith emphasizes advising public and private owners, contractors and design professionals on construction delivery systems, project risk assessment and providing contract review and drafting services. He also is an adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering at UW-Madison. Mullins' practice primarily is devoted to construction and real estate claims, disputes and transactional work.
Ronald M. Gilgenbach |
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently elected Ronald M. Gilgenbach (BS '72, MS '73) a fellow for his contributions to high-power microwave vacuum-electron devices. Gilgenbach is a professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences and director of the Plasma, Pulsed Power and Microwave Laboratory at the University of Michigan. In addition, he recently became an associate editor of Physics of Plasmas and is vice-chair of the IEEE Plasma Science and Applications technical committee. His invention, magnetic priming of magnetrons for fast startup and low microwave noise, received two patents in 2005.
Michelle Rogers |
In summer 2005, Michelle Rogers (PhD '02) received her first research grant as a principal investigator. Now a research scientist at the VA GAPS Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, Rogers received the Henry Becton Innovation Award from the American Diabetes Association for a study of Internet resources in diabetes self-management.
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