Dr. Fioralba Cakoni has been awarded a Humboldt return residential research sponsorship to visit the University of Göettingen where she will work with Professor Reiner Kress on electromagnetic detection of buried objects in heterogeneous media. Applications occur in medical imaging, mine detection and non-destructive testing. Dr. Cakoni previously held a Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Stuttgart, 1998-2000. For more information about Dr. Cakoni and the Fellowship see the article in UDaily.

For the third time Dr. Robert P. Gilbert, Unidel Foundation Professor, has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Award celebrating his lifelong achievements in applied analysis. Among other things, the award will sponsor a visit to the University of Ruhr at Bochum, where he will work with Professor Klaus Hackl on acoustic scattering from cancellous bone tissue. The ultimate goal of the research is the study and detection of the onset of osteoporosis. For more information about Dr. Gilbert and the Humboldt Award see the article in UDaily.