The following are among the many awards Whiting School of Engineering faculty have received recently.

• For his dedication to the field of nondestructive evaluation and his commitment to educating students, Robert E. Green Jr. was honored with the 2004 NDE Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Green is the Theophilus Halley Smoot Professor in Engineering. He founded and served as director for 17 years (until 2001) of the Whiting School’s Center for Nondestructive Evaluation and is a member of the principal professional staff at the Applied Physics Laboratory. Green received the award in March 2004 at the annual symposium of Nondestructive Evaluation for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, held in San Diego.

• The Maryland Association for Higher Education presented its 2004 Outstanding Educator Award (administrator category) to Gerald M. Masson, professor of Computer Science. He was honored for originating the concept, designing and developing, and now directing the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, along with the Master of Science in Security Informatics program.

• The American Chemical Society hosted a three-day seminar in Philadelphia last August to pay tribute to a Whiting School faculty member considered to be one of the world’s leading water treatment researchers. Titled “Particles and Interfaces in Aquatic Systems: A Symposium in Honor of Professor Charles R. O’Melia,” it featured 44 oral presentations, a poster session and a tribute dinner attended by 100 well-wishers. O’Melia chairs the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering. Many of the presentations will appear in a special edition of the ACS journal, Environmental Science and Technology. Among the symposium’s organizers were two of O’Melia’s former doctoral students—John Tobiason ’87 PhD, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Menachem Elimelech ’89 PhD, the Llewellyn West Jones Professor of Environmental Engineering and professor of chemical engineering at Yale University.