Inside Iowa State: Iowa State University

February 27, 2004

Honors

Society fellows
John Hill and Michael Tringides, professors of physics and astronomy, recently were elected fellows of the American Physical Society, an honor granted to no more than one-half of 1 percent of the current society membership.

Festschrift honor
A festschrift honoring David Gradwohl, professor emeritus of anthropology, has been published by the Journal of the Iowa Archaeological Society. This 17-essay volume is entitled Always on the Edge (in the Prairie-Plains): Essays in Honor of David Mayer Gradwohl.

Theater award
Robert Sunderman, assistant professor of music and resident scenic designer for ISU Theatre, received an award of merit for his scenic design of the play Proof at the Region V competition of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. The festival includes colleges and universities from eight midwestern states.

Best paper
Zhengdao Wang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received the Best Paper award for 2003 from the Signal Processing Society for a paper he co-authored. The paper, Wireless Multicarrier Communications: Where Fourier Meets Shannon, appeared in Signal Processing magazine.