ECE Professor and Donald Biggar Willett Scholar Andrew Singer was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's 14th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. He was one of 82 rising engineers chosen from more than 230 applicants.

The Information Trust Institute at the University of Illinois 2008 summer research internship program is in full swing, with 19 undergraduate students from across the world participating.

ECE Professor Thomas Huang and his graduate students are currently developing and improving ways for society to communicate on a more personal level. Through a variety of algorithms and applications, the researchers are experimenting to make technological advances even more appealing.

ECE Associate Professor Mark Hasegawa-Johnson recently became a member of the Articulograph International Steering Committee (AISC), a group of volunteers trying to provide standard human subjects safety information for new users of the Electromagnetic Articulograph.

ECE Professor Kent Choquette has been named the recipient of the 2008 Engineering Achievement Award from the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), a society within IEEE. Choquette received this award for development of the monolithic selectively oxidized vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL). The award will be presented to Choquette at the annual LEOS meeting in November.