Arthur Anderson, BS E SC ’06, has been accepted to the Mechanical Engineering Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since graduation in ’06, Arthur has been working for the Navy and is currently on temporary duty at Ship’s Repair Faculity in Yokosuka, Japan. He plans to arrive in Boston this month for his dual masters program, in Naval Construction and Engineering and Systems Design Management.

Mala Sharma, M.S. ’95 Engineering Mechanics, Ph.D. ’00 Engineering Science and Mechanics, has recently been promoted and tenured at Bucknell University. Mala is now one of four women to be tenured in the college of engineering at her University. Congratulations Mala!

Fan Zhang, Ph.D. ’08 in Engineering Science and Mechanics, has accepted a position at the CREE Santa Barbara Technology Center. Cree is leading the LED lighting revolution and setting the stage to obsolete the incandescent light bulb through the use of energy-efficient, environmentally friendly LED lighting. Cree is a market-leading innovator of lighting-class LEDs, LED lighting, and semiconductor solutions for wireless and power applications.