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Jacobus Fellow an engineer
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by Frank Wojciechowski
William D. Ristenpart is recipient of the Porter Ogden
Jacobus Fellowship.
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William
D. Ristenpart, a graduate student in the Department
of Chemical Engineering, was awarded the Porter Ogden Jacobus
Fellowship by Princeton University’s Graduate School.
The Jacobus fellowship is the highest honorific fellowship awarded
by the Graduate School.
Mr. Ristenpart is studying the effects of applied electric fields
on fluid flow, with a focus on how such flows induce the crystallization
of microscopic particles.
He earned his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University
of California, Davis in 1999.
He plans to pursue a career in academia, where he’ll continue
investigating electric-field, induced phenomena in fluids and
colloidal systems.
Mr. Ristenpart said that he also enjoys spending time with his
girlfriend—when she can convince him to leave the laboratory.
The Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship was established in 1905
by Clara Cooley Jacobus and is given to the Princeton University
graduate student who has displayed the highest scholarly excellence
in graduate work.
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Previous
engineering recipients of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship
are:
•Yueh-Lin Lynn Loo *01, Chemical
Engineering
•Claire Adjiman *98, Chemical
Engineering
•Harindran Manoharan ’91
*98, Electrical Engineering
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Grimm Memorial Prize earned
Chenggang
Zhou, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical
Engineering, received the 2003 Ray Grimm Memorial Prize in recognition
of his “innovative research in the field of computational
physics, specifically in relation to innovative studies of mesoscopic
quantum Hall systems and the Hofstadter butterfly, and for studies
of innovative new algorithms that are alternatives to or extensions
of the classic Metropolis-Rosenbluth Monte Carlo type of algorithm.”
The $3,000 prize recognizes Chenggang’s “outstanding
research achievements, academic merit, and creativity.”
The Ray Grimm Memorial Prize was established in 1985 in honor
of Ray Grimm, a talented and popular scientist and teacher.
The prize honors an advanced student in computational physics.
Making the research finals
Abhinav
Agrawal ’04, an electrical engineering major,
is a finalist in Intel Corp.’s Research Award Contest
for Undergraduate Students. Abhinav is working with Professor
Margaret Martonosi on vulnerability of processors
to current fluctuations and thermal effects.
Intel chose Abhinav for his research proposal titled “Vulnerability
of processor to dl/dt and thermal stressmarks.”
Abhinav and the other 18 student finalists will present their
results to a panel of Intel researchers in March. The top presenters
selected from that meeting will receive additional cash prizes.
Four named
honorific fellows
Four
graduate students in the School of Engineering and Applied Science
(SEAS) received honorific fellowships from Princeton University’s
Graduate School.
Lothrop Fellowship
John W. Berkery, a graduate student in the
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), and
Ding Liu, a graduate student in the Department
of Computer Science, were awarded George Van Ness Lothrop Fellowships
in Engineering.
Mr. Berkery’s research interests are electric propulsion
and plasma dynamics. Specifically, he studies the inefficiencies
of propagating current sheets and how they can be better used
in pulsed plasma thrusters. His adviser is Edgar Choueiri
*91, MAE associate professor.
Mr. Berkery is originally from Latham, N.Y. He earned his B.S.
in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in 1999. Cornell
is also where he met his wife, Diana.
In his spare time, Mr. Berkery enjoys traveling and playing
sports. He is currently pitcher of the MAE departmental softball
team.
Mr. Liu’s research interests are algorithm design and
analysis, with a special emphasis on computational geometry.
After earning his degree, he intends to continue his career
in academia and attack fundamental open problems in computational
geometry and algorithms.
Originally from Beijing, China, Mr. Liu received his bachelor’s
degree in computer science and engineering from Tsinghua University.
In his spare time, he enjoys reading, jogging, and playing or
watching soccer.
The Lothrop Fellowship was founded in 1970 by a bequest of Marion
Lewis
Lothrop, widow of George B. Lothrop, A.B. 1908 and E.E. 1910.
The fellowship is one of the highest awards conferrable in the
SEAS and provides a stipend plus full tuition.
Wallace Fellowship
Debra T. Auguste, a graduate student in the
Department of Chemical Engineering, and Li Shang,
a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering,
were awarded Wallace Memorial Fellowships in Engineering.
Ms. Auguste’s research focuses on the cooperative adsorption
of multiple attached polymers to drug-delivery vehicles for
protection from immune system recognition. This allows the delivery
vehicle to target tumors and sites of inflammation.
She was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in Coral Springs,
Fla. Her future plans are to obtain a faculty position at a
research university.
In her spare time, she enjoys gourmet cooking, traveling, reading,
arts and crafts, playing with her puppies, and doing community
service work. She currently presides on the board of the Association
of Princeton Graduate Alumni, and she is an active member in
her church, the Christian Life Center in Bensalem, Penn.
Mr. Shang studies system-level power analysis and optimization
in distributed embedded systems. Other research interests include
wireless network and distributed computing. He is working with
Professor Niraj Jha and Assistant Professor
Li-Shiuan Peh in the Department of Electrical
Engineering.
Originally from the People’s Republic of China, he graduated
from Tsinghua University in 1997.
After completing his degree, he intends to continue his research
career.
Outside the laboratory he enjoys reading and hiking.
The Wallace Memorial Fellowship was founded in 1930 by Bonnie
Wallace LeClear and reconstituted in 1963 as one of the highest
awards conferrable in the SEAS.
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