FYI

Fauchet

P hilippe Fauchet, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the College, was recently elected a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. The APS, which has 40,000 members, elects about one-half of 1 percent of its membership as fellows, while the OSA limits fellowship to 10 percent of its 11,400 members.

Fauchet's dual fellowship reflects his ability to touch on many disciplines with his varied research interests. Fauchet is professor of optics, senior scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, and director of the Center for Future Health.

The Medical Center has appointed Andy Deubler as associate vice president for development. He joined the Medical Center last year as director of major gifts.

Irwin Frank, professor emeritus of urology at the Medical Center, has been appointed president-elect of the American Urological Association.

Roger Mertin, professor of art and art history at the College, is one of six photographers selected for a 1999 McKnight Artist Fellowship. The $10,000 award will support work on his "Library Project," a collection of large-format, color views of local and neighborhood libraries across the United States and Canada.

Adam Frank, assistant professor of astrophysics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and a scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, has received a $500 1999 Popular Writing Award from the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society. Frank, an astrophysicist who studies how stars are born and how they die, was honored for his article "Blowin' in the Solar Wind," which appeared in the October 1998 issue of Astronomy Magazine.

A machine used for polishing high-precision aspherical lenses that the Center for Optics Manufacturing collaborated on recently received an award. The Q22 Magnetorheological Finishing System was chosen by Photonics Spectra magazine as one of 25 winners of the 1999 Photonics Circle of Excellence Award.

Ten Strong Memorial Hospital Social Work Division employees have completed the Family Development Training & Credentialing Program: Mary Barnes, Nancy Fuentes, Jean Gardner, Kalonda Greene, Kathleen Jarrett, Zoraida Lorenzo, Irene Nash, Ana Padilla, Jacqueline Sweeney, and Joan Walls.

Charlene Pope, a doctoral student in the teaching and curriculum program at the Warner School, has been selected as an American Dissertation Fellow by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation. She will receive a $15,000 stipend during the 1999-2000 academic year to work on her research comparing communication between physicians and patients of different races.