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MSE WELCOMES INCOMING DIVISION HEAD The Division of Materials Science and Engineering welcomes DAVID J. BISHOP (ECE, MSE, Physics) as the new Division head, effective September 1, 2011. In a career at Alcatel-Lucent (originally AT&T Bell Laboratories) spanning three decades, Bishop has advanced telecommunications, networking and cyber security solutions for the U.S. government market. He served the company in several high profile roles, including vice president of Optical, Nanotechnology and Physical Sciences Research and president of Government Research & Security Solutions and most recently as chief technology officer for LGS, a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent Technologies. An American Physical Society (APS) and Bell Labs Fellow who holds 46 patents and has authored or co-authored about 250 publications, Bishop received his PhD in physics from Cornell University in 1978. His research focuses on silicon micromechanics, MEMS in lightwave networks, alloptical switching, low temperature physics, superconductivity and nanotechnology. He received the APS 2009 George E. Pake Prize for “his effective leadership of AT&T/Lucent/Bell Labs research during an especially turbulent time in the telecommunications industry, and for his seminal contributions to low-temperature physics research.” * Adapted from an article written by Mark Dwortzan.
FACULTY AT A GLANCE FACULTY 2010–2011 PARTICIPATING FACULTY* New Grant Funding
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Journal Articles
132
Conference Proceedings
99
Continuing/Supplemental Grant Funding $20,024,825 Invited Lectures Book Chapters
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* Teach, supervise students, and/or serve on MSE committees. ** Have a professional association with MSE.
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Patents Issued
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AFFILIATED FACULTY**
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