{"id":1354,"date":"2009-07-17T14:07:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T18:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2022-07-26T16:58:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T20:58:34","slug":"kudos-summer-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2009\/07\/kudos-summer-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vision.jhu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ren\u00e9 Vidal<\/a><\/strong>, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, received a 2009 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award for \u201cAn Optimization Framework for Simultaneous Object Categorization and Segmentation.\u201d The Young Investigator Program exists to recognize outstanding new faculty members at institutions of higher education, support their research, and encourage their teaching and research careers.<\/p>\n<p>Three members of the Whiting School faculty received 2009 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards, which are given in recognition of young scientists\u2019 commitment to research and education. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/limbs.lcsr.jhu.edu\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Noah Cowan<\/a><\/strong>, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, received the award for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0845749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cSensory Guidance of Locomotion: From Neurons to Newton\u2019s Laws\u201d<\/a>; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/graylab.jhu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff Gray<\/a><\/strong>, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, received the CAREER award for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0846324\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cStructure Prediction of Proteins on Solid Surfaces\u201d<\/a>; and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.karchinlab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel Karchin<\/a><\/strong>, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, received the award for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0845275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cModeling Missense Mutation\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Homewood Academic Council recently approved the promotion of four Whiting School faculty members. <strong>Allison Okamura<\/strong> in Mechanical Engineering has been promoted to professor. 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