Howard Stone elected to NAE

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Michael Patrick Rutter
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - February 6, 2008 - Howard Stone, Vicky Joseph Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He is among 65 new members and 9 foreign associates elected to the NAE in 2009.

Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature," and to the "pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education."

Stone was recognized by the NAE "for the development of fundamental concepts and novel applications in microfluidics and for improving the understanding of small-scale, viscous-flow phenomena."

A former associate dean for Academic Programs in SEAS, Stone joined the Harvard faculty in 1989 after earning his Ph.D. at Caltech and spending a year as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University.

He received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, Davis and earned the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1989. He currently conducts research in fluid dynamics and transport processes and actively collaborates with scientists and engineers in various disciplines. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

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