[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 4]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 5572-5573]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




HONORING THE 175 INVENTORS INDUCTED AS THE 2016 FELLOWS OF THE NATIONAL 
                          ACADEMY OF INVENTORS

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                            HON. LAMAR SMITH

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, April 4, 2017

  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the 175 
inventors who will soon be recognized at the John F. Kennedy 
Presidential Library & Museum and inducted as the 2016 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 5,500 
patents.
  The individuals making up this year's class of Fellows include 
individuals from 135 research universities and non-profit research 
institutes spanning the United States and the world. The now 757-member 
group of Fellows is composed of more than 90 presidents and senior 
leaders of research universities and non-profit research institutes, 
376 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and 
Medicine; 28 inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 45 
recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation and 
U.S. National Medal of Science, 28 Nobel Laureates, 216 AAAS Fellows, 
126 IEEE Fellows, and 116 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & 
Sciences, among other awards and distinctions.
  The NAI was founded in 2010 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 and taxpayers 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 2016 NAI Fellows include:
  David Akopian, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Kamal S. Ali, 
Jackson State University; A. Paul Alivisatos, University of California, 
Berkeley; Carl R. Alving, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Hamid 
Arastoopour, Illinois Institute of Technology; Peter Arsenault, Tufts 
University; B. Jayant Baliga, North Carolina State University; Zhenan 
Bao, Stanford University; Richard G. Baraniuk, Rice University; Francis 
Barany, Cornell University; Jean-Marie Basset, King Abdullah University 
of Science and Technology; Paula J. Bates, University of Louisville; 
Craig C. Beeson, Medical University of South Carolina; K. Darrell 
Berlin, Oklahoma State University; Sarit B. Bhaduri, The University of 
Toledo; Pallab K. Bhattacharya, University of Michigan; Dieter H. 
Bimberg, Technical University of Berlin, Germany; Christopher N. 
Bowman, University of Colorado Boulder; Barbara D. Boyan, Virginia 
Commonwealth University; Mindy M. Brashears, Texas Tech University; 
Donald J. Buchsbaum, The University of Alabama at Birmingham; Ruben G. 
Carbonell, North Carolina State University; John F. Carpenter, 
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Raghunath V. Chaudhari, 
The University of Kansas; Junhong Chen, University of Wisconsin--
Milwaukee; Liang-Gee Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Simon R. 
Cherry, University of California, Davis; Michael J. Cima, Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology; Adrienne E. Clarke, La Trobe University, 
Australia; Larry A. Coldren, University of California, Santa Barbara; 
Rita R. Colwell, University of Maryland; Diane J. Cook, Washington 
State University; Peter A. Crooks, University of Arkansas for Medical 
Sciences; Riccardo Dalla-Favera, Columbia University; Suman Datta, 
University of Notre Dame; Delbert E. Day, Missouri University of 
Science and Technology; Roger A. de la Torre, University of Missouri, 
Columbia; Stephen W. Director, Northeastern University; Jeffrey L. 
Duerk, Case Western Reserve University; James L. Dye, Michigan State 
University; Richard L. Ehman, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and 
Research; Gary A. Eiceman, New Mexico State University; Ali Emadi, 
McMaster University, Canada; Ronald M. Evans, Salk Institute for 
Biological Studies; Stanley Falkow, Stanford University; Hany Farid, 
Dartmouth College; Shane M. Farritor, University of Nebraska--Lincoln; 
Philippe M. Fauchet, Vanderbilt University; Denise L. Faustman, 
Massachusetts General Hospital; David R. Fischell, Cornell University; 
Vincent A. Fischetti, The Rockefeller University; David P. Fries, 
Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition; Kenneth G. Furton, 
Florida International University; Kanad Ghose, Binghamton University, 
SUNY; Juan E. Gilbert, University of Florida; Linda C. Giudice, 
University of California, San Francisco; Herbert Gleiter, Karlsruhe 
Institute of Technology, Germany; Dan M. Goebel, NASA Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory; Forouzan Golshani, California State University, Long Beach; 
Lorne M. Golub, Stony Brook University, SUNY; John B. Goodenough, The 
University of Texas at Austin; Michael Graetzel, Ecole Polytechnique 
Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland; Robert J. Greenberg, Alfred E. Mann 
Foundation for Scientific Research; Richard M. Greenwald, Dartmouth 
College; Patrick G. Halbur, Iowa State University; Henry R. Halperin, 
Johns Hopkins University; Amy E. Herr, University of California, 
Berkeley; D. Craig Hooper, Thomas Jefferson University; Edward A. 
Hoover, Colorado State University; Oliver Yoa-Pu Hu, National Defense 
Medical Center, Taiwan; David Huang, Oregon Health & Science 
University; Mark S. Humayun, University of Southern California; Joseph 
P. Iannotti, Cleveland Clinic; Enrique Iglesia, University of 
California, Berkeley; Sungho Jin, University of California, San Diego; 
Barry W. Johnson, University of Virginia; William L. Johnson, 
California Institute of Technology; John L. Junkins, Texas A&M 
University; Michelle Khine, University of California, Irvine; John 
Klier, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Thomas J. Kodadek, The 
Scripps Research Institute; Harold L. Kohn, The University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill; Steven M. Kuznicki, University of Alberta, 
Canada; Enrique J. Lavernia, University of California, Irvine; Nicholas 
J. Lawrence, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute; Leslie 
A. Leinwand, University of Colorado Boulder; Frances S. Ligler, North 
Carolina State University; Yilu Liu, The University of Tennessee, 
Knoxville; Jennifer K. Lodge, Washington University in St. Louis; 
Gabriel P. Lopez, The University of New Mexico; Mandi J. Lopez, 
Louisiana State University; Surya K. Mallapragada, Iowa State 
University; Seth R. Marder, Georgia Institute of Technology; Alan G. 
Marshall, Florida State University; Raghunath A. Mashelkar, National 
Innovation Foundation--India; Kouki Matsuse, Meiji University, Japan; 
Martin M. Matzuk, Baylor College of Medicine; T. Dwayne McCay, Florida 
Institute of Technology; James W. McGinity, The University of Texas at 
Austin; Thomas J. Meade, Northwestern University; Katrina L. Mealey, 
Washington State University; Edward W. Merrill, Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology; Paul L. Modrich, Duke University; H. Keith Moo-Young, 
Washington State University Tri-Cities; David J. Mooney, Harvard 
University; Israel J. Morejon, University of South Florida; Harold L. 
Moses, Vanderbilt University; Joseph R. Moskal, Northwestern 
University; Nazim Z. Muradov, University of Central Florida; Nicholas 
Muzyczka, University of Florida; Lakshmi S. Nair, University of 
Connecticut; Shrikanth S. Narayanan, University of Southern California; 
Erin K. O'Shea, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Ellen Ochoa, NASA 
Johnson Space Center; Francis A. Papay, Cleveland Clinic; Kevin J. 
Parker, University of Rochester; Yvonne J. Paterson, University of 
Pennsylvania; George N. Pavlakis, National Institutes of Health; 
Kenneth H. Perlin, New York University; Nasser Peyghambarian, The 
University of Arizona; Gary A. Piazza, University of South Alabama; 
Christophe Pierre, Stevens Institute of Technology; Michael C. Pirrung, 
University of California, Riverside; Michael V. Pishko, University of 
Wyoming; Garth

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Powis, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute; Paras N. 
Prasad, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Ronald T. Raines, University of 
Wisconsin--Madison; Ragunathan (Raj) Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon 
University; Michael P. Rastatter, East Carolina University; Jacob 
(Kobi) Richter, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; 
Richard E. Riman, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Andrew 
G. Rinzler, University of Florida; Bruce E. Rittmann, Arizona State 
University; Nabeel A. Riza, University College Cork, Ireland; Kenneth 
J. Rothschild, Boston University; Stuart H. Rubin, Space and Naval 
Warfare Systems Center; Linda J. Saif, The Ohio State University; 
Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida; John T. Schiller, National 
Institutes of Health; Diane G. Schmidt, University of Cincinnati; Wayne 
S. Seames, University of North Dakota; Michael S. Shur, Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute; David Sidransky, Johns Hopkins University; 
Mrityunjay Singh, Ohio Aerospace Institute; Kamalesh K. Sirkar, New 
Jersey Institute of Technology; David R. Smith, Duke University; James 
E. Smith, West Virginia University; Terrance P. Snutch, The University 
of British Columbia, Canada; Ponisseril Somasundaran, Columbia 
University; Gerald Sonnenfeld, University of Rhode Island; James S. 
Speck, University of California, Santa Barbara; Sidlgata V. 
Sreenivasan, The University of Texas at Austin; Bruce W. Stillman, Cold 
Spring Harbor Laboratory; Daniele C. Struppa, Chapman University; 
Kenneth S. Suslick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mark J. 
Suto, Southern Research Institute; Yu-Chong Tai, California Institute 
of Technology; Nelson Tansu, Lehigh University; Fleur T. Tehrani, 
California State University, Fullerton; Marc T. Tessier-Lavigne, 
Stanford University; Madhukar (Mathew) L. Thakur, Thomas Jefferson 
University; Mehmet Toner, Massachusetts General Hospital; Jan T. 
Vilcek, New York University; Anil V. Virkar, The University of Utah; 
John F. Wager, Oregon State University; William R. Wagner, University 
of Pittsburgh; Isiah M. Warner, Louisiana State University; John D. 
Weete, Auburn University; Andrew M. Weiner, Purdue University; Ralph 
Weissleder, Massachusetts General Hospital; Thomas M. Weller, 
University of South Florida; Jennifer L. West, Duke University; Amnon 
Yariv, California Institute of Technology; Yun Yen, Taipei Medical 
University, Taiwan; Warren M. Zapol, Massachusetts General Hospital.

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