{"358821":{"#nid":"358821","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two Engineering Professors Named National Academy of Inventors Fellows","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=129\u0022\u003ERussell Dupuis\u003C\/a\u003E, Steve W. Chaddick Endowed Chair in Electro-Optics in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/prausnitz\u0022\u003EMark Prausnitz\u003C\/a\u003E, a Regents Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, have been elected as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). They join an elite group of just 414 NAI Fellows worldwide.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe designation honors those who \u201chave demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDupuis has made innovative contributions to metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) and continuous-wave room-temperature quantum-well lasers. He is currently studying the growth of III-V compound semiconductor devices by MOCVD.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrausnitz was chosen for the honor based on his revolutionary work in drug delivery technologies, especially microneedles, which are tiny needles (about 400 to 700 microns long) that can be designed as skin patches that provide a simple, painless, and inexpensive way to administer influenza, polio, measles, and other vaccines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDupuis and Prausnitz will be honored at the NAI Fellows Luncheon and Induction Ceremony at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena on March 20, 2015. The event is part of the organization\u2019s annual conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther current NAI Fellows from Tech include \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/peterson\u0022\u003EPresident G.P. \u0022Bud\u0022 Peterson\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=124\u0022\u003EBiing-Hwang Juang\u003C\/a\u003E, Motorola Foundation Chair Professor amd Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, who were named fellows in 2012 and 2013, respectively.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDupuis and Prausnitz join Peterson and Juang who were named in recent years.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dupuis and Prausnitz join Peterson and Juang who were named in recent years."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2014-12-18 15:34:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:46","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"358851":{"id":"358851","type":"image","title":"National Academy of Inventors","body":null,"created":"1449245775","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:16:15","changed":"1475895096","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:36","alt":"National Academy of Inventors","file":{"fid":"201524","name":"logo_1.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/logo_1_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/logo_1_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":17095,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/logo_1_0.png?itok=DUAZDRsp"}},"69253":{"id":"69253","type":"image","title":"Professor Mark Prausnitz","body":null,"created":"1449177239","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:59","changed":"1475894606","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:26","alt":"Professor Mark Prausnitz","file":{"fid":"192743","name":"prausnitz2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/prausnitz2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/prausnitz2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1286929,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/prausnitz2_0.jpg?itok=-cM1PYtq"}},"40217":{"id":"40217","type":"image","title":"Russell Dupuis","body":null,"created":"1449174171","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:22:51","changed":"1475894277","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:57"}},"media_ids":["358851","69253","40217"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"113041","name":"awrds"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"4447","name":"fellows"},{"id":"113031","name":"NAI fellows"},{"id":"87401","name":"National Academy of Inventors"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kay.kinard@coe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKay Kinard\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}