Farnam Jahanian, professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), recently earned the Governor's University Award for Commercialization Excellence. The awards are designed to spur faculty and students to start businesses based on their research. Jahanian won in the category for universities with average annual research expenditures exceeding $100 million. His research was instrumental in founding Arbor Networks, a firm that makes software to protect computer networks against virus attacks and other security threats.

Igor Markov, EECS assistant professor, received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his proposal entitled, "Spatial Optimization of Computing Systems." NSF CAREER awards recognize and support the early career-development activities of teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. Awardees are selected on the basis of creative career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution.

Tresa Pollock, the LH and FE Van Vlack Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and professor of materials science and engineering, received the Lee Hsun Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute for Metals Research (IMR). The award is presented to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of materials science and engineering, and was presented in conjunction with a lecture she gave on new developments in high temperature materials at IMR in Shenyang, China last fall.