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Authors Honors and Awards

  • Dr. G. K. Ananthasuresh, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, has won the 2010 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences, conferred by the Indian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. Dr. Ananthasuresh is the lead author of Micro and Smart Systems, published by Wiley India in 2010, with a global edition scheduled for release in 2011.

  • Dr. John Geddes, Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry, University of Oxford, U.K., has won the 2010 RCPsych Psychiatric Academic of the Year Award, given by the Royal College of Psychiatry. The annual RCPsych Awards mark the highest level of achievement within psychiatry. Dr. Geddes is coauthor (with Dr. Paul Harrison and Dr. Michael Sharpe) of the Wiley-Blackwell title Lecture Notes: Psychiatry, 10th Edition.

  • Dr. Sorab K. Ghandhi, Professor Emeritus at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been named the winner of the 2010 EDS Education Award, given by the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS). The award, to be conferred at the 2010 International EDS Meeting in December, includes the citation "For introducing and fostering semiconductor and microelectronics education in universities, and to industry practitioners." Dr. Ghandhi is the author or co-author of five Wiley titles: Principles of Transistor Circuits (Richard F. Shea et al., 1953), Transistor Circuit Engineering (Richard F. Shea et al., 1957), Theory and Practice of Microelectronics (1968), Semiconductor Power Devices (1977), and VLSI Fabrication Principles: Silicon and Gallium Arsenide (1982, Second Edition 1994).

  • Dr. Richard M. Felder, Hoechst Celanses Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, has won the 2010 Inaugural IFEES Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education, given by the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) in recognition of his outstanding and original contributions to engineering education worldwide. Dr. Felder is the coauthor (with Dr. Ronald W. Rousseau) of the Wiley title Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, Third Update Edition.

  • Dr. Doris Fischer-Henningsen, Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley-VCH journal Chemie in Unserer Zeit, has been awarded the 2010 Fonds-Literaturpreis (literary prize) of the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI), given in recognition of her development of the journal and for her broader efforts in promoting chemistry in Germany.

  • Dr. Craig Hawker, FRS, Director of the Materials Research Laboratory and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society. Dr. Hawker is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, published by Wiley.

  • Dr. Ned Mohan, Oscar A. Schott Professor of Power Electronics at the University of Minnesota, has received the 2010 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award. The award, sponsored by the IEEE Education Society, was given in recognition of Dr. Mohan's development and dissemination of a novel integrated electric energy systems curriculum for undergraduates and for his outstanding classroom teaching. He is coauthor (with Tore M. Undeland and William P. Robbins) of the Wiley title Power Electronics: Converters, Applications and Design.

  • Michael J. Rosen, CFRE, President of ML Innovations, Inc., has won the 2010-2011 Skystone Partners Prize for Research on Fundraising and Philanthropy for his Wiley book Donor-Centered Planned Gift Marketing. The prize is awarded each year by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Research Council to the author of a book that contributes substantially to the knowledge and understanding of fundraising or philanthropic behavior. Mr. Rosen is also a member of the Editorial Board of Wiley's International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing.
  • Sir Michael Rutter, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, U.K., has won the 2010 RCPsych Lifetime Achievement Award, given by the Royal College of Psychiatry. The annual RCPsych Awards mark the highest level of achievement within psychiatry. Professor Rutter is the author of the Wiley-Blackwell title Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, currently in its fifth edition.

  • Dr. Albert Y. Zomaya, Chair Professor of High Performance Computing and Networking and Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow in the School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney, has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), effective January 2011. The journal is the oldest IEEE publication, dating back to 1951. Dr. Zomaya is Founding Editor of the Wiley Book Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Co-Editor of the Wiley Book Series on Bioinformatics and the Wiley Book Series on Nature Inspired Computing.