Peter Chen, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and Sam King, a graduate student in computer science and engineering, received a Best Paper Award from the 2003 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles for their paper "Backtracking Intrusions."

Mark Lewis, assistant professor of industrial and operations engineering, has been named the Sloan Foundation Mentor of the Year. He received the award at the Compact for Faculty Diversity, sponsored by the Southern Regional Education Board.

Dr. Peter Polverini, dean of the School of Dentistry, and Dr. Hom-Lay Wang, director of the school's graduate periodontics program, were awarded fellowships in the American College of Dentists (ACD) during the group's annual meeting in San Francisco. Fellowship in ACD is by invitation only and is based on demonstrated leadership and contributions to organized dentistry, oral health care, dental research, dental education, the profession and society.