Congratulations to Jacob Sager and Charles Thornton, who have been awarded the William Huggins’ Summer Fellowship Award for 2017! Each student will receive a $4,000 fellowship as well as $500 stipend for supplies to conduct research with two of our professors during the summer.
Jacob will be working with Professor Archana Venkataraman on research to understand how manipulating a basic signal character can alter the perception of emotion contained in speech. Charles will be working with Professor Susanna Thon on the optical engineering of a flexible concentrator. We are confident that both of them will greatly contribute to the research being conducted in their respective fields.
The William Huggins Award is made possible through the generosity of the William H. Huggins Endowment for Electrical and Computer Engineering. Professor Huggins, a Hopkins faculty member from 1954 through 1984, was a member of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering. His early research focused on electrical circuit theory and the theory of signals and systems. Colleagues say that Huggins encouraged Hopkins administrators to acquire the university’s first computer 40 years ago, and during the 1960s, he became a strong advocate for the use of these machines as teaching tools.
The Electrical and Computer Engineering department congratulates both gentlemen on receiving this award and looks forward to learning about the outcomes of their work at the end of the summer!