About CELEST
What is CELEST?
CELESTial Manifesto
Mission
Thrusts
Overview
Virtual Tour
People
Administrative Structure
Faculty
Staff
Participating Institutions
External Advisory and Scientific Review Board
Diversity Outreach Committee
Educational and
Scientific Resources
Curriculum Materials
Scientific Materials
HONORS AND AWARDS
(January 2008 – )
Gail Carpenter:
Recipient of the 2008 IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award, February.
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham:
Selected as a semi-finalist for the inaugural National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowships. These fellowships are being established to "provide extensive, long-term financial support to distinguished university faculty scientists and engineers to conduct unclassified, fundamental research on topics of interest to DoD; ensure that our nation has an active, long-term, well informed, and aggressive research and engineering portfolio that attracts creative and energetic scientists, engineers, and their students." Fellows will receive up to $600,000/year of funding for five years, March 2008.
STUDENTS:
Olufemi Olu-Lafe (CELEST graduate student, Liederman lab), Martin Luther King Jr. Fellowship for the 2007–2008 academic year and renewable for up to three years.
Olufemi Olu-Lafe (CELEST graduate student, Liederman lab), Clara Mayo Research Award for Summer 2008 support.
Olufemi Olu-Lafe (CELEST graduate student, Liederman lab), finalist for an NIH Predoctoral Minority Fellowship, Spring 2008.