Several faculty members and a graduate student in Cornell's College of Engineering are recipients of recent awards and honors. They include Fred Kulhawy, David Putnam, Leslie Banks-Sills and Filip Radlinski.

Kulhawy, professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been selected by the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers for the 2006 Gene Wilhoite Innovations in Transmission Line Engineering Award. Kulhawy uses mathematical modeling and field-testing to study and improve the design of foundations for electrical transmission line towers.

The award was established in 1990 to honor Wilhoite for his commitment to the electrical transmission industry. It is given to an individual for "significant contribution to the advancement of the art and science of transmission line engineering."

Putnam, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and chemical and biomolecular engineering, was honored with a DuPont Science and Engineering Award to support his work in the area of functional biomaterials and his role in developing new teaching methods for interdisciplinary courses.

Banks-Sills, adjunct professor in civil and environmental engineering at Cornell and professor of solid mechanics, materials and systems at Tel Aviv University, has been selected for the Hanin Prize for Research from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, to be presented at the 46th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences in March. The $5,000 prize recognizes Banks-Sills' work in developing accurate methods for calculating stress intensity factors. The Hanin Prize was established by Ruth Hanin, widow of Meir Hanin, who was a member of the aeronautical engineering and space faculty at Technion.

Computer science doctoral student Radlinski is the recipient of a two-year Microsoft Research Fellow award. Radlinski works in the area of machine learning -- software that can learn from experience; he works with Thorsten Joachims, assistant professor of computer science, on the Osmot project to develop a search engine that tailors its response to queries to the interests of users.

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