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Awards and Honors

Junichiro Kono Named Fellow of American Physical Society (November 2009)

Rice WARP Team Wins NSF Award to Develop Emerging Wireless Applications (September 2009)

Congratulations to undergrad Chevron scholarship winners (September 2009)

Kono and Drezek receive grants from Rice Faculty Initiative Fund (July 2009)

National Stuttering Association honors ECE staff member - Vicki Schutter receives 2009 member of the year award (July 2009)

Martha Alexander receives Distinguished Employee Award (June 2009)

Rice computing pioneer wins IEEE Computer Society Award (June 2009)

Graduate student Marco Duarte wins prestigious IPAM postdoctoral fellowship (May 2009)

Manjari Narayan wins Borg Scholarship (May 2009)

Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Texas Chapter, Selects ECE Students (May 2009)

Seniors present award-winning designs (May 2009)

DSP Group team wins prize for best compressive sensing paper (April 2009)

NSF selects Eva Dyer for 2009 Graduate Research Fellowship Award (April 2009)

Rice Engineering Alumni Association awards ECE Students (April 2009)

Graduate student Melissa Duarte Earns Roberto Rocca Fellowship (April 2009)

Center for Multimedia Communication Team wins Hershel M. Rich Invention Award (April 2009)

Dr. Farinaz Koushanfar wins highly competitive Office of Naval Research Young Investigators Award (April 2009)

ECE Grad student Abhilash Krishna wins Albert Schweitzer Fellowship to design and conduct cardiac education program (April 2009)

ECE Team wins Best Paper Award at IEEE Pervasive Computing Conference (March 2009)

Chakrapani wins Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis Award (March 2009)

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society selects Professor Yehia Massoud for Nanotechnology Council post (February 2009)

Halas named associate editor of Nano Letters (February 2009)

Congrats to Chevron Scholarship award winners Alysha Jeans and Lu Sun (February 2009)

Kudos to Endowed Scholarship Award Recipient Corina Serediuc (January 2009)

ECE Congratulates Thomas Barr - Recipient of the J.C. Pollard Graduate Fellowship (January 2009)

Halas wins high-profile national security award (November 2008)

C. Sidney Burrus named recipient of 2009 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Medal (November 2008)

Mittleman named 2009 OSA Fellow (November 2008)

Knightly elected IEEE Fellow (November 2008)

Knightly and Robinson win ACM MobiCom 2008 best paper award (September 2008)

Halas wins prestigious nanotechnology research award (September 2008)

Farinaz Koushanfar named to MIT Technology Review's TR35 (August 2008)

Professors Baraniuk and Massoud win DARPA grant for innovation in analog-to-information networks (July 2008)

Rice again chosen as a TI Leadership University (July 2008)

Dr. Junichiro Kono, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has been elected fellow by the Council of the American Physical Society (APS) “for contributions to optical processes in semiconductor nanostructures, including magneto-optical studies of Aharonov-Bohm physics in carbon nanotubes.” The peer-reviewed election to APS Fellowship in the division of Condensed Matter Physics is a distinctive recognition of Kono’s outstanding contributions to physics. The fellowship citation will be published in the March 2010 issue of APS News and announced on http://www.aps.org. He will receive a fellowship certificate at the annual meeting of the sponsoring division, Condensed Matter Physics.

Current research in the Kono Laboratory focuses on the fundamental physics of semiconductor nanostructures and carbon nanomaterials.

Read more: http://www.ece.rice.edu/~irlabs/research.htm

 
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