[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 30 (Thursday, February 25, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E226-E227]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
HONORING THE 168 INVENTORS INDUCTED AS THE 2015 FELLOWS OF THE NATIONAL
ACADEMY OF INVENTORS
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HON. DAVID W. JOLLY
of florida
in the house of representatives
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Mr. JOLLY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the 168 inventors who
will soon be recognized at the United States Patent and Trademark
Office and inducted as the 2015 Fellows of the National Academy of
Inventors (NAI) in an induction ceremony that will feature a keynote
address by U.S. Commissioner for Patents Andrew Hirshfeld. 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, this
elite group holds nearly 5,400 patents.
The individuals making up this year's class of Fellows include
individuals from 109 research universities and non-profit research
institutes spanning the United States and the world. The now 582-member
group of Fellows is composed of more than 80 presidents and senior
leadership of research universities and non-profit research institutes,
310 members of the other National Academies, 27 inductees of the
National Inventors Hall of Fame, 36 recipients of the U.S. National
Medal of Technology and Innovation and the U.S. National Medal of
Science, 27 Nobel Laureates, 14 Lemelson-MIT prize recipients, and 170
AAAS Fellows, among other awards and distinctions.
The NAI 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 United States 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.
We are greatly indebted to innovators such as these for contributions
to society through their inventions. I commend these individuals, and
the organizations that support them, for the work they do to
revolutionize the world we live in. As the following inventors are
inducted, may it encourage future generations to strive to meet this
high honor and continue the spirit of discovery and innovation.
The 2015 NAI Fellows include; C. Mauli Agrawal, The University of
Texas at San Antonio; Dean P. Alderucci, The University of Chicago;
Jayakrishna Ambati, University of Kentucky; Iver E. Anderson, Iowa
State University; Kristi S. Anseth, University of Colorado Boulder;
Allen W. Apblett, Oklahoma State University; Charles J. Arntzen,
Arizona State University; Harry A. Atwater, Jr., California Institute
of Technology; Lorne A. Babiuk, University of Alberta; John M. Ballato,
Clemson University; John S. Baras, University of Maryland; Issa
Batarseh, University of Central Florida; Ray H. Baughman, The
University of Texas at Dallas; Angela M. Belcher, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; Stephen J. Benkovic, The Pennsylvania State
University; Shekhar Bhansali, Florida International University;
Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; J. Douglas
Birdwell, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Kenneth J. Blank,
Rowan University; Dale L. Boger, The Scripps Research Institute.
Charles A. Bouman, Purdue University; John E. Bowers, University of
California, Santa Barbara; Gary L. Bowlin, University of Memphis; C.
Jeffrey Brinker, The University of New Mexico; Emery N. Brown,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Milton L. Brown, Georgetown
University; Richard B. Brown, The University of Utah; Steven R.J.
Brueck, The University of New Mexico; Joe C. Campbell, University of
Virginia; Selim A. Chacour, University of South Florida; Mau-Chung
Frank Chang, National Chiao Tung University; Shu Chien, University of
California, San Diego; Mary-Dell Chilton, Washington University in St.
Louis; Diana S. Chow, University of Houston; Chung K. Chu, University
of Georgia; Yoginder P. Chugh, Southern Illinois University; William J.
Clancey, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition; Katrina Cornish,
The Ohio State University; Delos M. Cosgrove III, Cleveland Clinic;
Alan W. Cramb, Illinois Institute of Technology.
Benjamin F. Cravatt III, The Scripps Research Institute; Roy Curtiss
III, University of Florida; P. Daniel Dapkus, University of Southern
California; John G. Daugman, University of Cambridge; Mark E. Davis,
California Institute of Technology; Robert C. Dean, Jr., Dartmouth
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College; Atam P. Dhawan, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Duane B.
Dimos, The University of Texas at Arlington; David M. Eddy, University
of South Florida; Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania; Antonio
Facchetti, Northwestern University; Rudolf Faust, University of
Massachusetts Lowell; Robert E. Fischell, University of Maryland;
Christodoulos A. Floudas, Texas A&M University; Gabor Forgacs,
University of Missouri; Scott E. Fraser, University of Southern
California; Jean M.J. Frechet, King Abdullah University of Science and
Technology; Richard H. Frenkiel, Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey; Sanjiv S. Gambhir, Stanford University; Shubhra Gangopadhyay,
University of Missouri; Sir Andre K. Geim, The University of
Manchester; George Georgiou, The University of Texas at Austin.
John C. Gore, Vanderbilt University; Venu Govindaraju, University at
Buffalo, The State University of New York; Ali Hajimiri, California
Institute of Technology; Naomi J. Halas, Rice University; Andrew D.
Hamilton, New York University; Wayne W. Hanna, University of Georgia;
Florence P. Haseltine, National Institutes of Health; Charlotte A.E.
Hauser, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Craig J.
Hawker, University of California, Santa Barbara; M. Frederick
Hawthorne, University of Missouri; Barton F. Haynes, Duke University;
Richard F. Heck, University of Delaware; Andrew B. Holmes, The
University of Melbourne; Rush D. Holt, American Association for the
Advancement of Science; H. Robert Horvitz, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; Chenming C. Hu, University of California, Berkeley; Leon D.
Iasemidis, Louisiana Tech University; Mir Imran, University of
Pittsburgh; Donald E. Ingber, Harvard University; Chennupati Jagadish,
The Australian National University.
Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University; Kristina M. Johnson,
University of Colorado Boulder; Joseph S. Kalinowski, East Carolina
University; Aaron V. Kaplan, Dartmouth College; Usha N. Kasid,
Georgetown University; Kenneth W. Kinzler, Johns Hopkins University;
Brian K. Kobilka, Stanford University; Steven J. Kubisen, The George
Washington University; Donald W. Landry, Columbia University; Se-Jin
Lee, Johns Hopkins University; Sunggyu Lee, Ohio University; Robert J.
Lefkowitz, Duke University; G. Douglas Letson, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer &
Research Institute; Jennifer A. Lewis, Harvard University; Guifang Li,
University of Central Florida; James C. Liao, University of California,
Los Angeles; John S. Lollar III, Emory University; Anthony M. Lowman,
Rowan University; Rodney S. Markin, University of Nebraska Medical
Center; Tobin J. Marks, Northwestern University; Dean F. Martin,
University of South Florida.
Helen S. Mayberg, Emory University; Edith G. McGeer, The University
of British Columbia; Patrick L. McGeer, The University of British
Columbia; Meyya Meyyappan, NASA Ames Research Center; Thomas E. Milner,
The University of Texas at Austin; Umesh K. Mishra, University of
California, Santa Barbara; Somenath Mitra, New Jersey Institute of
Technology; Andreas F. Molisch, University of Southern California;
Ramani Narayan, Michigan State University; Alan C. Nelson, Arizona
State University; Kyriacos C. Nicolaou, Rice University; David R.
Nygren, The University of Texas at Arlington; Richard M. Osgood, Jr.,
Columbia University; Alyssa Panitch, Purdue University; H. Anne
Pereira, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; William M.
Pierce, Jr., University of Louisville; John M. Poate, Colorado School
of Mines; H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University; Ann Progulske-Fox,
University of Florida; Suzie H. Pun, University of Washington; Kaushik
Rajashekara, The University of Texas at Dallas; Jahangir S. Rastegar,
Stony Brook University.
A. Hari Reddi, University of California, Davis; E. Albert Reece,
University of Maryland; Kenneth L. Reifsnider, The University of Texas
at Arlington; Jasper D. Rine, University of California, Berkeley; Ajeet
Rohatgi, Georgia Institute of Technology; Stephen D. Russell, Space and
Naval Warfare Systems Command; Michael J. Sailor, University of
California, San Diego; Bahgat G. Sammakia, Binghamton University;
Andrew V. Schally, University of Miami; Paul R. Schimmel, The Scripps
Research Institute; Peter G. Schultz, The Scripps Research Institute;
Marian O. Scully, Texas A&M University; Jonathan L. Sessler, The
University of Texas at Austin; Mohsen Shahinpoor, University of Maine;
Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland; Marvin J. Slepian, The
University of Arizona; Kwok-Fai So, The University of Hong Kong;
Richard A. Soref, University of Massachusetts Boston; Pramod K.
Srivastava, University of Connecticut; Andrew J. Steckl, University of
Cincinnati.
Valentino J. Stella, The University of Kansas; Galen D. Stucky,
University of California, Santa Barbara; Bala Subramaniam, The
University of Kansas; R. Michael Tanner, Association of Public and
Land-grant Universities; Guillermo J. Tearney, Harvard University;
Stephen Tomlinson, Medical University of South Carolina; James M. Tour,
Rice University; Kalliat T. Valsaraj, Louisiana State University; Bert
Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins University; Sherry L. Harbin, Purdue
University; Norman J. Wagner III, University of Delaware; Yong Wang,
Washington State University; James A. Wells, University of California,
San Francisco; Caroline C. Whitacre, The Ohio State University; Jay F.
Whitacre, Carnegie Mellon University; Helena S. Wisniewski, University
of Alaska Anchorage; Edward D. Wolf, Cornell University; Paul K.
Wright, University of California, Berkeley; James C. Wyant, The
University of Arizona; Pan-Chyr Yang, National Taiwan University; Yu-
Dong Yao, Stevens Institute of Technology; Martin L. Yarmush, Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey; and Jianping Zheng, Florida State
University.
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