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  • Congratulations to The Cooper Union's four Fulbright Fellowship recipients: Jesicka Alexander (Arch '06) - Korea, Paul (Pavel) Nikulin (CE '06) - Estonia, Brian Cawley Turner (Arch '06) - Japan, David B. Weiland (Arch '06) - Italy.
  • Graduating EE students have once again collected the top prizes in the student competition sponsored by the IEEE, the electrical engineering professional society:

    First Place
    MR.IMAGER - A Low-Cost Scalable Multichannel Digital MRI Receiver
    Ishaan Dalal (EE'06), Ashwin Kirpalani (EE'07) & Fahd Malik (EE'06)
    Advisor: F. Fontaine (EE'86, ME'87, Engineering faculty)

    Second Place
    Digital Notepad
    Sal Perrotta (EE'06) & John Zhao (EE'06)
    Advisor: T.J. Cumberbatch (Engineering faculty)

  • The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $140,000 to Toby Cumberbatch, professor of electrical engineering in the Albert Nerken School of Engineering, to support the work of four undergraduate engineering students for three summers starting in 2007. The students will research engineering solutions related to the availability and quality of water, energy and shelter in rural communities in northern Ghana under the supervision of Professor Cumberbatch in collaboration with Ghanaian faculty and students from the College of Engineering of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
  • English Residence, in Beverly Hills, Calif., designed for Tobias Emmerich by Chu + Gooding Architects and interior designer Kay Kollar (Arch'82) received an AIA 2006 Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture.
  • Ysrael Seinuk (Arch faculty) will receive the 2006 ASCE Metropolitan Section Homer Gage Balcom Award at a dinner dance/awards ceremony on June 23.
  • The American Academy in Rome has announced the 2007 Rome Prize winners. Thomas Tsang (Arch'00) won the Marion O. and Maximilian E. Hoffman Rome Prize in architecture. The fellowship includes a stipend, a study or studio and room and board at the American Academy in Rome for a period of six months to two years starting in September 2006.
  • Faculty member and School of Art alumnus William Villalongo is one of 30 artists who received a 2005 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. The awards, totaling $600,000, are given to nominated artists whose work shows serious promise. He is also a 2005-06 Space Program artist, one of 21 artists (selected from more than 1,100 applicants) who receives free studio space from the Marie Sharpe Walsh Foundation.
  • South: Volume 1, the inaugural issue of Clemson University's publication, which poses the question "What is South?," featured the work of Catherine Seavitt (Arch'94, Arch faculty) and Martha Skinner (Arch'95).
  • Dean Anthony Vidler (Architecture) reviewed the book Surrealism and Architecture, edited by Thomas Mical, for the March 3 edition of The Architect's Newspaper.
  • "Never Forget to Remember: On Disaster and Tourism," an essay by Ken Okiishi (A'01), assistant director of the Center for Writing and Language Arts at Cooper Union, was featured in Bidoun, spring/summer 2006, issue 7.