Monday, February 15, 2021
Share The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) this week announced it has selected three University of Pittsburgh professors among 61 academic inventors for the 2021 class of NAI senior members. They are:
Michael Lotze, professor in the Department of Surgery
Kacey Marra, professor in the Department of Plastic Surgery NAI senior members are active faculty, scientists and administrators from NAI member institutions who have demonstrated remarkable innovation producing technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society. They also have growing success in patents, licensing and commercialization. “I want to congratulate Drs. Brown, Lotze and Marra on joining an exclusive society of academic inventors,” said Evan Facher, vice chancellor for innovation and entrepreneurship at Pitt and director of the Innovation Institute. “They all have demonstrated exceptional commitment to achieving impact for
Inspiring innovation
UD National Academy of Inventors Fellows discuss the creative spirit, lessons learned
According to Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1937 for his study of vitamin c and cell respiration, âInnovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.â
Most of the time, innovators do not know if their ideas will pan out. A lot of the time they donât. When failure occurs, inventors step back, reconsider and regroup, then keep pursuing their ideas, incorporating lessons learned along the way in order to pivot or start anew.
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Clemson University will play a significant role in advancing the nation s environmental, energy, and national security research and workforce development efforts as a member of the Battelle Savannah River Alliance (BSRA) that will now manage the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL).
Clemson faculty have worked with scientists at SRNL for three decades to study solutions to nuclear waste storage, advanced materials, environmental protection and energy security. The long-standing relationship has resulted in numerous internships for Clemson undergraduate and graduate students who have had unique opportunities to conduct research with SRNL scientists and Clemson faculty. The new partnership is expected to bring even more opportunities.
Craig Hawker
Two UC Santa Barbara engineers are among 129 new members worldwide elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for 2021. Materials and chemistry professor Craig Hawker and Rachel Segalman, chair of the Chemical Engineering Department, join the 106 American and 23 foreign engineers honored this year.
Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.
Segalman, the Edward Noble Kramer Professor and a professor of both chemical engineering and materials, was recognized “for contributions to semiconducting block polymers, polymeric ionic liquids and hybrid thermoelectric materials.”
Hawker, the Alan and Ruth Heeger Chair in Interdisciplinary Science, who also serves as the director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) and the Dow Materials Institute, was cited for ”contributions to polymer chemistry through synthetic organic chemistry concepts and the advancement of molecular engineering principles.”