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PAUL DEMARINIS
ENRIQUE CHAGOYA
KARL ALEXANDER DEISSEROTH
WENDELIN JANE WRIGHT
PAUL DEMARINIS, associate professor of art and art history, was awarded a 2006 Prix Ars Electronica award in the "Interactive Art" category at the Ars Electronica International Competition for CyberArts in Linz, Austria. DeMarinis received the award for his installation, The Messenger, which was exhibited at the Cantor Arts Center in 2001.
ENRIQUE CHAGOYA, associate professor of art and art history, was awarded the Elliot Medal for the painting Untitled (Road Map), which was exhibited in May and June at the National Academy of Design Museum's 181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art.
Two Stanford researchers were among 56 of the nation's most promising young scientists and engineers honored with 2005 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. The award is the nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. John H. Marburger III, science adviser to President Bush and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, presented the awards July 26 at a White House ceremony.
KARL ALEXANDER DEISSEROTH, an assistant professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, was nominated by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, "in recognition of the study of circuit activity and intracellular signaling in neurogenesis, for studies on the relationship between circuit activity and neurogenesis in psychiatric disorders and for work in clinical psychiatry and as a teacher of bioengineering and psychiatry."
WENDELIN JANE WRIGHT, an acting assistant professor of materials science and engineering who will start at Santa Clara University in September as the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was nominated by the U.S. Department of Energy "for research into the deformation and failure of metals and polymers under dynamic loading using high-speed and spatially-resolved infrared measurements of temperature, for guidance and leadership of fellow researchers and for her exceptional ability to communicate difficult technical concepts to colleagues and students."