February 17, 2005

Honors

Robert E. Gallamore, director of The Transportation Center and professor of managerial economics and decision sciences, has been designated a lifetime National Associate of the National Academies by action of the Council of the National Academy of Science and the Governing Board of the National Research Council.

The National Academies is composed of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine.

Prior to joining Northwestern in 2001, Gallamore was on executive loan from Union Pacific Railroad to the Transportation Technology Center, Inc.

Gallamore has also served as deputy federal railroad administrator under President Jimmy Carter and led the Executive Branch development of recommendations for railroad deregulation and revitalization.

Lauren M. Pachman, M.D., professor of pediatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, has been selected to receive the Clinical Research Award, one of seven Awards of Distinction given by the American College of Rheumatology.

Pachman has concentrated her research on the epidemiology and pathogenesis of juvenile dermatomyositis.

She has established an NIH-funded JDM Research registry, developed a validated scoring system for disease activity, and has participated in multiple national and international studies defining risk factors for JDM symptoms and outcomes.

Mark A. Ratner, Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in Chemistry who has been widely honored as a leader in nanotechnology, received the 2004 Visionary Pioneer Award at the recent Chicago Innovation Awards ceremony at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Ratner is credited with starting the field of molecular electronics (nanotechnology) in 1974 when he published a paper predicting the diode behavior of particular classes of donor-acceptor molecules.

His ideas are being applied in products such as LED lights in Lexus cars and Motorola cell-phone displays, and eventually molecular electronics is expected to help transform the electronics industry.