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ing/acoustics from the same institution.
Noral Stewart joined ASTM International in 1985 and is
vice chair of Committee E33 and chair of Subcommittee E33.91 on Long-Term Planning. He is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, ASME International, the Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA, the National Council of Acoustical Consultants and the Transportation Research Board/Aricraft Noise Subcommittee.
He has served as President (2000-02) and Vice President (1996-98) of the National Council of Acoustical Consultants. His service to the Acoustical Society of America includes membership on the Technical Committees on Architectural Acoustics (1996-present) and Noise (1995-present) and as Chair (1979-80), Secretary-Treasurer (1977-79, 1983-91, 2002-04) and Treasurer (1991-96) of the North Carolina Regional Chapter.
C. Dan Mote (© John Consoli, Univ. of Maryland Photographer)
C. Dan Mote, Jr. awarded National Academy of Engineering Founders Award
The 2005 National Academy of En- gineering Founders Award was presented to C. Dan Mote, Jr., president of the University of Maryland and Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering. Dr. Mote was honored
“for the creation of a comprehensive body of work on the dynamics of moving flexible structures and for leadership in academia.”
Dr. Mote earned all his degrees in mechanical engineer- ing at the University of California, Berkeley, where he spent 31 years on the faculty. As the President of the University of Maryland, Dr. Mote has established several partnerships between the university and corporate and federal laborato- ries, and created a research park next to the campus. In addi- tion, he has successfully negotiated to bring a research park sponsored by the Peoples Republic of China to College Park. It is the first Chinese-sponsored research park to be estab- lished outside of China's mainland.
Dr. Mote has received numerous awards and honors, including the Humboldt Prize awarded by the Federal Republic of Germany. He is a recipient of the Berkeley Citation and was named Distinguished Engineering Alumnus. He has received three honorary doctorates, and has been elected to Honorary Membership in the ASME International, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Academy of Wood Science, the Acoustical Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The Founders Award was established in 1965 by the National Academy of Engineering to honor an outstanding NAE member or foreign associate who has upheld the ideals
and principles of NAE through professional, educational, and personal achievement and accomplishment.
American Institute of Physics celebrates its 75th anniversary
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2006. AIP is a not-for-profit corporation devoted to advancing and diffusing the knowledge of physics and related sciences and its application to human welfare. As part of the celebration, internationally known scientists, gov- ernment officials, publishers, and others will convene at a two-day event in May at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC and at the American Center for Physics in College Park, MD. During the entire anniversary year, AIP will hold events and deliver stories that examine the monumental growth in physics research and publishing since 1931, explore the many changes in the world of physics, and identify the frontiers of today’s research.
“In the past 75 years, breakthroughs in physics have led to life-saving medical imaging, ubiquitous computers, inex- pensive worldwide telecommunications, and an ever-deep- ening knowledge of matter, the Earth and the universe,” said Marc H. Brodsky, AIP’s Executive Director and CEO. “AIP with its Member Societies has played an important role in scientific knowledge transfer that culminates in positive life- enhancing and life-changing developments in society. AIP and its partners have just begun efforts to advance and dif- fuse physics knowledge,” Brodsky emphasized. “There are so many challenges still before us to understand the physical and biological world and to use that knowledge to improve people’s lives,” he said.
AIP’s keynote event for its 75th anniversary was held on May 3-5, 2006, with a two-day series of talks, receptions, exhibits, and the semi-annual meeting of its Governing Board. Highlights included talks by Presidential Science Adviser John Marburger, Nobel Laureate Steven Chu, and National Academy of Sciences President Ralph Cicerone. Other events included a convocation on the history and future of scholarly journal publishing and an art exhibit by artist Patrick Hughes.
During its 75th anniversary in 2006, AIP will also cele- brate the many contributions of its ten Member Societies, the individual scientific organizations that form a federation within AIP. At its inception in 1931, five societies belonged to AIP. Today those five founding members have been joined by five additional societies.
The Institute serves member societies and their associates, individual scientists, educators, students, research and develop- ment leaders, and the general public. It brings them programs, services and publications in such areas as careers, science edu- cation, education and career statistics, media services, govern-
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