Congressional Record, Volume 161 Issue 29 (Friday, February 20, 2015)

[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 29 (Friday, February 20, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E227-E228]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  HONORING THE 2014 FELLOWS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INVENTORS (NAI)

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                          HON. DENNIS A. ROSS

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, February 20, 2015

  Mr. ROSS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the 170 inventors who 
will soon be recognized at the California Institute of Technology and 
inducted as the 2014 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors 
(NAI). In order to be named as a Fellow, these men and women were 
nominated by their peers and have undergone the scrutiny of the NAI 
Selection Committee, having had their innovations deemed as making 
significant impact on quality of life, economic development, and 
welfare of society. Collectively, among this elite group holds nearly 
5,000 patents.
  The individuals making up this year's class of Fellows include 
individuals from 114 research universities and non-profit research 
institutes spanning not just the United States but also the world. The 
now 414 member group of Fellows is comprised of 61 presidents and 
senior leadership of research universities and non-profit research 
institutes, 208 members of the other National Academies, 21 inductees 
of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 16 recipients of the U.S. 
National Medal of Technology and Innovation, 10 recipients of the U.S. 
National Medal of Science, 21 Nobel Laureates, 11 Lemelson-MIT prize 
recipients, 112 AAAS Fellows, among other awards and distinctions.
  The National Academy of Inventors was founded in 2010 by Paul R. 
Sanberg at the University of South Florida. Its mission is to recognize 
and encourage inventors with patents issued from the U.S. Patent and 
Trademark Office, enhance the visibility of academic technology and 
innovation, encourage the disclosure of intellectual property, educate 
and mentor innovative students, and translate the inventions of its 
members to benefit society.
  The contributions made to society through innovation are 
immeasurable. I commend these individuals, and the organizations that 
support them, for the work that they do to revolutionize the world we 
live in. As the following inventors are inducted, may it encourage 
future innovators to strive to meet this high honor and continue the 
spirit of innovation.
  The 2014 NAI Fellows include:
  Ilhan A. Aksay, Princeton University; Nancy L. Allbritton, The 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jan P. Allebach, Purdue 
University; Daniel W. Armstrong, The University of Texas at Arlington; 
Frances H. Arnold, California Institute of Technology; Kyriacos A. 
Athanasiou, University of California, Davis; Nadine N. Aubry, 
Northeastern University; David Baltimore, California Institute of 
Technology; Amit Bandyopadhyay, Washington State University; Joseph J. 
Beaman, Jr., The University of Texas at Austin; James A. Birchler, 
University of Missouri-Columbia; Donald R. Bobbitt, University of 
Arkansas; Jeffrey T. Borenstein, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory; 
H. Kim Bottomly, Wellesley College; Scott A. Brandt, University of 
California, Santa Cruz; Steven P. Briggs, University of California, San 
Diego; Robert A. Brown, Boston University; Karen J.L. Burg, Kansas 
State University; Robert H. Byrne, University of South Florida; A. 
Robert Calderbank, Duke University; Emily A. Carter, Princeton 
University; Alexander N. Cartwright, The State University of New York; 
H. Jonathan Chao, New York University; Ching-Shih Chen, The Ohio State 
University; Ashutosh Chilkoti, Duke University; Arul M. Chinnaiyan, 
University of Michigan; Steven Chu, Stanford University; James J. 
Coleman, The University of Texas at Dallas; J Edward Colgate, 
Northwestern University; Barry S. Coller, The Rockefeller University; 
R. Graham Cooks, Purdue University; Rory A. Cooper, University of 
Pittsburgh; Harold G. Craighead, Cornell University; Charles S. Craik, 
University of California, San Francisco; Alfred J. Crosby, University 
of Massachusetts Amherst; Marcos Dantus, Michigan State University; Huw 
M.L. Davies, Emory University; Mark R.D. Davies, University of 
Limerick; Mark E. Dean, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Richard 
D. DiMarchi, Indiana University; Michael A. Dirr, The University of 
Georgia; Richard A. Dixon, University of North Texas; John P. Donoghue, 
Brown University; Jonathan S. Dordick, Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute; Jennifer A. Doudna, University of California, Berkeley; 
Anatoly Dritschilo, Georgetown University; Robert V. Duncan, Texas Tech 
University; Russell D. Dupuis, Georgia Institute of Technology; Victor 
J. Dzau, Duke University; James H. Eberwine, University of 
Pennsylvania; Elazer R. Edelman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 
J. Gary Eden, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jennifer H. 
Elisseeff, Johns Hopkins University; Sir Martin J. Evans, Cardiff 
University; David A. Evans, Harvard University; Gregg B. Fields, Toney 
Pines Institute for Molecular Studies; Stephen R. Forrest, University 
of Michigan; Michael W. Fountain, University of South Florida; Ingrid 
Fritsch, University of Arkansas; Cynthia M. Fuse, The University of 
Utah; Elsa M. Garmire, Dartmouth College; Samuel H. Gellman, University 
of Wisconsin-Madison; Amit Goyal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Bruce 
D. Hammock, University of California, Davis; Justin Hanes, Johns 
Hopkins University; Frank W. Harris, The University of Akron; Vikki 
Hazelwood, Stevens Institute of Technology; Maurice P. Herlihy, Brown 
University; John C. Herr, University of Virginia; David R. Hillyard, 
The University of Utah; Jeffrey A. Hubbell, The University of Chicago; 
Suzanne T. Ildstad, University of Louisville; M. Saif Islam, University 
of California, Davis; Robert D. Ivarie, The University of Georgia; 
Allan J. Jacobson, University of Houston;

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Trevor O. Jones, Case Western Reserve University; Michael E. Jung, 
University of California, Los Angeles; Kattesh V. Katti, University of 
Missouri-Columbia; Jay D. Keasling, University of California, Berkeley; 
Behrokh Khoshnevis, University of Southern California; Marcia J. 
Kieliszewski, Ohio University; Michael N. Kozicki, Arizona State 
University; Juan C. Lasheras, University of California, San Diego; Wen-
Hwa Lee, China Medical University; Chiang J. Li, Harvard University; 
James Linder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Stuart M. Lindsay, 
Arizona State University; Robert J. Linhardt, Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute; Philip S. Low, Purdue University; Yuri M. Lvov, Louisiana 
Tech University; Asad M. Madni, University of California, Los Angeles; 
Marc J. Madou, University of California, Irvine; Richard A. Mathies, 
University of California, Berkeley; Richard D. McCullough, Harvard 
University; Carver A. Mead, California Institute of Technology; Wen Jin 
Meng, Louisiana State University; Xiang-Jin Meng, Virginia Tech; Thomas 
O. Mensah, Florida State University; Antonios G. Mikos, Rice 
University; Richard K. Miller, Olin College of Engineering; Duane D. 
Miller, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Jan D. 
Miller, The University of Utah; Sergey B. Mirov, The University of 
Alabama at Birmingham; Jeffrey R. Morgan, Brown University; Brij M. 
Moudgil, University of Florida; Josee M.F. Moura, Carnegie Mellon 
University; Shuji Nakamura, University of California, Santa Barbara; 
Jagdish Narayan, North Carolina State University; Shree K. Nayar, 
Columbia University; Douglas F. Nixon, The George Washington 
University; Babatunde A. Ogunnaike, University of Delaware; Iwao Ojima, 
Stony Brook University; Nicholas A. Peppas, The University of Texas at 
Austin; Michael A. Peshkin, Northwestern University; Victor L. Poirier, 
University of South Florida; Mark R. Prausnitz, Georgia Institute of 
Technology; Darwin J. Prockop, Texas A&M University; Alain T. 
Rappaport, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition; Renee A. Reijo 
Pera, Montana State University; Daniel E. Resasco, The University of 
Oklahoma; Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum, Rice University; Yasuko Rikihisa, 
The Ohio State University; Pradeep K. Rohatgi, University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee; Baarbel M. Rohrer, Medical University of South Carolina; 
Erkki Ruoslahti, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute; B. Don 
Russell, Jr., Texas A&M University; Ram Sasisekharan, Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology; W. Gregory Sawyer, University of Florida; Axel 
Scherer, California Institute of Technology; Joseph M. Schimmels, 
Marquette University; C. Richard Schlegel, Georgetown University; Saiid 
M. Sebti, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer & Research Institute; George E. Seidel, 
Jr., Colorado State University; Arup K. SenGupta, Lehigh University; 
Wan Y. Shih, Drexel University; Kevin M. Short, University of New 
Hampshire; Richard B. Silverman, Northwestern University; Marwan A. 
Simaan, University of Central Florida; Raj N. Singh, Oklahoma State 
University; Thomas C. Skalak, University of Virginia; Mohamed Y. 
Soliman, Texas Tech University; Bruce J. Tatarchuk, Auburn University; 
Gordon A. Thomas, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Mark E. Thompson, 
University of Southern California; Thomas G. Thundat, University of 
Alberta; Richard B. Timmons, The University of Texas at Arlington; Mark 
L. Tykocinski, Thomas Jefferson University; Kamil Ugurbil, University 
of Minnesota; Anthony J. Vizzini, Wichita State University; Horst 
Vogel, EEcole Polytechnique Feedeerale de Lausanne; Nicholi Vorsa, 
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, 
Columbia University; Kristiina Vuori, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research 
Institute; Kevin M. Walsh, University of Louisville; Christine A. Wang, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Shaomeng Wang, University of 
Michigan; Paul H. Weigel, The University of Oklahoma; Jonathan A. 
Wickert, Iowa State University; Alan E. Willner, University of Southern 
California; Richard C. Willson III, University of Houston; Chi-Huey 
Wong, Academia Sinica; John A. WooIlam, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; 
Shelby D. Worley, Auburn University; Chris Xu, Cornell University; Ping 
Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Zhi Xu, University of Missouri-St. 
Louis; Janet K. Yamamoto, University of Florida; Shu Yang, University 
of Pennsylvania; Michael J. Yaszemski, Mayo Clinic; Phillip D Zamore, 
University of Massachusetts Medical School.