Other Awards and Honors
2008 Impact on Scientific Community
Yanwen Zhang invited to 2008 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Yanwen Zhang has been invited by the National Academy of Engineering to attend the 2008 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium on April 25 - 27, 2008. The symposium will be held at the National Academies' Beckman Center in Irvine, California, and is organized by the NAE and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. About 60 outstanding engineers, generally not older than 45, from U.S. and German industry, universities, and government labs are invited to discuss leading-edge research and technical work across a range of engineering fields. The NAE believes that convening engineers from disparate fields and challenging them to think about developments and problems at the frontiers of areas different from their own will lead to a variety of desirable results, including collaborative work, the transfer of new techniques and approaches across fields, and establishment of contacts among the next generation of leaders in engineering. Yanwen, a senior research scientist at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, has been highly recognized for her contributions in ion-solid interactions, irradiation effects and ion beam techniques. She was selected previously for a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in recognition of her research in the fields of ion beam physics and ion-solid interactions, especially in the field of electronic stopping in solids. (announced 6/26/2008)