ECE Professor John Papapolymerou has been appointed to a two-year term on the IEEE TAB Periodicals Review and Advisory Committee.

A paper co-authored by Emmanouil M. (Manos) Tentzeris and his collaborators from Georgia Tech, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Perugia is among the 25 most downloaded papers from IEEE Sensors Journal.

ECE Ph.D. student Vachan Kumar received the Best Student Poster Award at the IEEE Global Interposer Technology Workshop, which was held on November 14-15 in Atlanta.

John D. Cressler has been named editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.

ECE Professor and Senior Associate Chair Joseph L.A. Hughes has been appointed to the IEEE Educational Activities Board for 2012.

ECE Professor Chin-Hui Lee has been named the recipient of the 2012 ISCA Medal.

ECE Professor Oliver Brand has been named associate director for the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology.

ECE Assistant Professor Bo Hong received the Best Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, held November 12-15 in Atlanta.

ECE Professor Miroslav Begovic has been elected president of the IEEE Power and Energy Society.