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Ileana
Streinu, left, assists a student |
Ileana
Streinu, professor of computer science, was awarded
the Grigore Moisil Award by the Romanian Academy for her paper
“On the Number of Embeddings of Minimally Rigid Graphs,”
co-written by Ciprian Borcea, professor of mathematics at
Rider University, and published in Discrete and Computational
Geometry (Feb. 2004). The annual Moisil Award is the
academy’s highest honor for theoretical computer science
research. The award is named after an important Romanian mathematician
and has been presented each year since 2000. The Romanian
Academy is a cultural forum, founded in Romania in 1866, that
advances scientific research, as well as Romanian language,
literature and history. The Moisil Award was presented on
December 19, 2006, at a ceremony recognizing the academy’s
140th anniversary.
Katherine
N. Lwebuga-Mukasa ’69 was recently appointed
the new chief operating officer of the YWCA of Western New
York, located in Buffalo. YWCA of Western New York oversees
several charitable agencies in the Buffalo area and is the
largest provider of childcare services in the region. The
organization is known for its programs providing transitional
housing and leadership training for women, and for promoting
racial equality. Following her graduation from Smith, Lwebuga-Mukasa
earned a master’s degree in education from San Diego
State University, and a master’s in school psychology
from Southern Connecticut State University.
 Larry
Meinert, professor-in-residence of geology and an
expert on the production of wine, is the editor of a new book,
Fine Wine and Terroir: The Geoscience Perspective,
a collection of articles about the production of wine and
the physical environment of terroir. Terroir is a French word
that pertains to all aspects of the wine environment, such
as climate, soil, geology and culture. The book, co-edited
by R.W. Macqueen, is composed of 17 papers, six from the terroir
symposium held at the 2003 annual meeting of the Geological
Society of America, in Seattle, Washington.
Index
of People News 2005-06
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