CASL In the News CASL alumna Zeynep Gumus Ph.D. *03 is heading a new cancer study at Weill Cornell Medical College's Institute of Computational Biomedicine in New York City. Ruth Misener received the E-Council "Excellence in Teaching Award" for Fall 2009. "Peptide in my Pocket", an image by Meghan Bellows, was selected for inclusion in the 2010 Art of Science exhibition. "Beyond genomics, biologists and engineers decode the next frontier", outlining a collaboration between Pete DiMaggio, Rich Baliban, Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas, and Prof. Ben Garcia of the Molecular Biology Department was reported as headline news on Princeton University home page (282). Rich Baliban received the E-Council "Excellence in Teaching Award" for Fall 2008. Pete Verderame was awarded the Gordon Wu Prize for Excellence for the 2009-2010 academic year. Pete DiMaggio was honored as the recipient of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship during Alumni Day ceremonies. Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas has been invited to present the 2008 Professor Roger W.H. Sargent Lecture at Imperial College. Read more on the department of chemical engineering homepage. Pete DiMaggio received the Porter Ogden Jacobus Honorific Fellowship for the 2008-09 academic year. Co-editors Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas and Prof. Panos M. Pardalos have completed the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Optimization (PDF, 22MB) , which was recently published by Springer. Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas has recieved the 2007 Graduate Mentoring Award. Peter DiMaggio and Peter Verderame were recognized for outstanding service as teaching assistants for the Fall 2006. Meghan Bellows was awarded a 2007 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, which is sponsored and funded by the Department of Defense (DoD). PILOT, a de novo peptide identification algorithm developed by Peter DiMaggio and Prof. Chistodoulos A. Floudas, was featured in the "Toolbox" section of the Journal of Proteome Research. Links to the article are provided on the department of chemical engineering homepage. Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas is named the Stephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science. The School of Engineering and Applied Science recognizes Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas for outstanding teaching. Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas has received the 2006 AIChE Computing in Chemical Engineering Award. The story was also reported on the Princeton Univeristy homepage. Scott McAllister received the Charlotte Elizabeth Proctor Honorific Fellowship for the 2006-07 academic year. Pete DiMaggio received the E-Council "Excellence in Teaching Award" for Fall 2005. "Computer Program Streamlines Work Scheduling", outlining work on the NSF Panel Assignment Problem was reported on the NSF's Website. "Engineers Apply Optimization to Streamline Work Assignments", outlining work on the NSF Panel Assignment Problem was reported in the Princeton Weekly Bulletin. Stacy Janak received the Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowhip for the 2005-06 academic year. Chrysanthos Gounaris received the E-Council "Excellence in Teaching Award" for Fall 2004. Princeton University homepage news reported that Stacy Janak received the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (APGA) Teaching Award for 2004. "In Silico Protein Design: A Combinatorial and Global Optimization Approach", outlining work for in the area of in silico protein design was reported in the January/February 2004 issue of SIAM NEWS, (PDF), (Patent), (178), (186), (189), (202). "New method saves time in inventing drugs", outlining work for the design of protein-based drugs using ASTRO-FOLD was reported as headline news on Princeton University home page, (Patent), (178), (186), (189), (202). "Time-saving method for inventing drugs results in possible treatment", outlining work for the design of protein-based drugs using ASTRO-FOLD was reported in the Princeton Weekly Bulletin, (Patent), (178), (186), (189), (202). "Computer Design Yields Better, More Efficient Therapeutic for Preventing Tissue Damage", detailing work on the in silico de novo protein design approach and its uses for refining protein/peptide-based medicines was published in a University of Pennsylvania Health System Press Release, August 25, 2003, (Patent), (178), (186), (189), (202). Publication of Encyclopedia of Optimization, edited by Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas and Prof. Panos M. Pardalos of the University of Florida, was reported as headline news on Princeton University home page, (EoO). Publication of Encyclopedia of Optimization, edited by Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas and Prof. Panos M. Pardalos of the University of Florida, was reported in the Princeton Weekly Bulletin, (EoO). E-Quad News, Winter 2001-2002, reported that Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas received the "2001 AIChE Professional Progress Award for Outstanding Progress in Chemical Engineering", (Page 1). Publication of Encyclopedia of Optimization, edited by Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas and Prof. Panos M. Pardalos of the University of Florida, was reported in E-Quad News, Winter 2001-2002, (Page 1), (EoO). Work on production scheduling was reported in E-Quad News, Winter 2001-2002, (Page 1, Page 2), (165). After six years of work, Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas and co-editor Prof. Panos M. Pardalos of the University of Florida have completed the Encyclopedia of Optimization, which was published recently by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Princeton University home page reported that Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas received the "2001 AIChE Professional Progress Award for Outstanding Progress in Chemical Engineering", (Page 1). Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas has received the "2001 AIChE Professional Progress Award for Outstanding Progress in Chemical Engineering". Work on protein folding was reported in E-Quad News, Winter 1999-2000, (Page 1, Page 2), (155), (163), (167), (173), (174), (185). John L. Klepeis received the Wallace Memorial Fellowship in Engineering. Work on protein folding was reported as headline news on Princeton University web page (Page 1, Page 2) and special report on Princeton Weekly Bulletin , (155), (163), (167), (173), (174), (185). Paper by Dr. Conor M. McDonald and Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas was selected as best paper of 1997 in the journal of Computers and Chemical Engineering, (Page 1, Page 2), (97). Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas won the AspenTech Academic Excellence Award. Stephen T. Harding won the Excellence in Teaching Award.