Newsmakers
Archived article from Sep 29, 2000
Professor Tomasz Imielinski, chair of the department of computer science, and B.R. (Badri) Badrinath, associate professor of computer science and associate director of the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB), have been highly ranked in a list of the most cited information technology faculty in the world.
According to the March 2000 ResearchIndex, a publication of the NECI (NEC Research Institute) Scientific Literature Digital Library, Imielinski's work was referenced 1,300 times and Badrinath's 800 times by other scientists in published research.
Imielinski is also ranked by ResearchIndex as second in the world in his two research areas, database mining and mobile wireless computing. He is 184th in a list of the 10,000 most cited computer scientists in the world; Badrinath is 462nd.
Among professors at U.S. state universities, Imielinski is ranked among the top 15 in all of computer science. His paper on association rule mining is the most cited on database mining and machine learning.
A paper written by Badrinath and former student Ajay Bakre is the second most referenced in the mobile/wireless area, and one written jointly by Badrinath and Imielinski was ranked number five.
Paul Israel, managing editor of the book edition of the Thomas A. Edison Project, has received the Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology. Israel received the prize for his book "Edison: A Life of Invention." The book is the first biography to focus in detail on Edison's innovative work as an inventor -- both his successes and his failures.
Georgia Arbuckle-Keil, associate professor of chemistry in Camden, has been named chair-elect of the Philadelphia section of the American Chemical Society.
Kathleen Ashton, clinical associate professor of nursing in Camden, has been named a Penn Macy Fellow in Academic Nursing Practice and participated in the Penn Macy Institute at the University of Pennsylvania in July.
Benjamin R. Barber, director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy, has been awarded a Berlin Prize Fellowship of the American Academy of Berlin. The award will permit him to spend several months in Germany at the Hans Arnhold Center researching global civil society.
Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, professor of urban studies in Camden, was honored as a Business and Professional Leader by New Jersey City University.
Deborah Bowles, director of admissions in Camden, has been named a Special Service Leader by the Charles E. Brimm Medical Arts High School in honor of her support for the Camden magnet school.
Kim D. Butler, associate professor of Africana Studies, won the Letitia Woods Brown Publication Prize, awarded by the Association of Black Women Historians, for her book "Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition Sao Paulo and Salvador."
Baoline Chen, assistant professor of economics in Camden, and William Puentes, assistant professor of nursing in Camden, have received Minority Junior Faculty Awards from the Lindback Foundation.
Martin Dillon, assistant professor of fine arts, has received a Friends of the French Award from the Philadelphia chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French.
During the summer, Manoranjan Dutta, professor of economics, spent three weeks as a visiting scholar with De Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam, Der Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt and the Banque de France in Paris. During the spring, he had spent six weeks as a visiting scholar with Japan's Ministry of Finance in Tokyo.
Larry Fisher, professor of finance and economics at the Faculty of Management, has been selected to receive the Nicholas Molodovsky Award from the Association of Investment Management and Research for outstanding contributions to the profession.
Victor Greenhut, the Corning-Saint Gobain Malcolm G. McLaren Chair in Ceramic Engineering, was sworn in as vice president of the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers for 2000-2001.
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