Included are numerous faculty awards and recognitions from throughout the year.

Head of School Professor Tom I-P. Shih has announced that Professor Tasos Lyrintzis will serve as Associate Head of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, effective fall 2010.

AAE Courtesy Professor Jay Gore, Reilly University Chair Professor and founding Director of the Energy Center received the Jefferson Science and Technology Fellow Award with selection by the National Academy of Sciences and appointment by the US Department of State Science Advisor to Secretary Hillary Clinton.

Congratulations to AAE Courtesy Professor Steven Son who was named College of Engineering University Faculty Scholar.

AAE graduate student, Brett Sanborn, was a member of the US National Model Plane team that competed this past week in Serbia at the FAI World Championship Indoor Class F1D Competition.

Congratulations to Prof. Alten F. Grandt, Jr.--who was the recipient of the 2010 Distance Faculty Award