Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles Godfrey Binder Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, along with collaborators around the world has studied the eyes of the peacock mantis shrimp in relation to resulting in their ability to see circularly polarized light. Dr. Lakhtakia has looked at these eyes in a bid to build a better waveplate. These waveplates are optical devices that alter the polarization state of light that travel through them. This information is important as Lakhtakia notes “optical systems code different information on light of different polarization states.” To read more about this research, please visit this web site.
*Source: msnbc.com

Dr. Joseph Cusumano, Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, has been selected as a member of the Schreyer Honors College Distinguished Honors Faculty Program beginning fall 2011. This program and group of Distinguished Honors Faculty are selected to submit applications outlining the types of activities they would like to introduce to the Schreyer Honors College representing breadth of research and academic pursuits.

Dr. Edward Ventsel, Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, was notified this semester that his paper entitled “An approximate solution of hypersingular integral equations,’ was the third most successful IMACS 2011 paper published in Applied Numerical Mathematics. For this reason, IMACS conferred to Dr. Ventsel 3rd IMACS 2011 Most Successful Papers Award and to nominate him for IMACS Honor Member 2011. Congratulations!

Dr. Patrick Lenahan, Distinguished Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, is scheduled to give an invited talk, chair a session and attend the Electronic Materials Conference in Santa Barbara, California June 24. To learn more about the conference please visit their web site.