Rabin Awarded $1.26 Million in Funding Yoed Rabin


Professor Yoed Rabin recently won three grants totaling $1.26 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support his efforts to improve the outcomes of cryosurgery and cryopreservation. Cryosurgery is the controlled destruction of undesired tissues by freezing, while cryopreser- vation is the preservation of tissues at extremely low temperatures.


Earlier this year, Rabin and Professor Kenji Shimada won a $1.3 million grant from the National Cancer Insti- tute to develop computerized training tools that enable cryosurgeons to practice surgical technique in a virtual environment. (See Carnegie Mech, Spring 2010.)


Higgs Wins Newkirk Award


Associate Professor C. Fred Higgs III is the 2010 winner of the prestigious Burt L. Newkirk Award, presented by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Named for Burt L. Newkirk, for his notable achieve-


ments in both the theory and application of tribology, this annual award recognizes an engineer under the age of 40 who has also made significant contributions to the field of tribology, as evidenced by important publications. For the purposes of this award, ASME defines tribology as “the science and technology associated with surfaces in contact and relative motion with each other.” Higgs manages the Particulate Flow and Tribology Laboratory, which studies three different flows found in sliding contact interfaces: slurry flows, pow- der flows, and granular flows. These three dynamic flows in- volve nanometer, micrometer, and millimeter sized particles flowing in a fluid medium. Higgs is a 2007 recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.•


David H. Archer Rabin’s most recent funding includes:


• A $430,000 grant that will support Rabin as he develops a device to visualize ice crystals, fractures, and other tissue damage during cryopreservation procedures


• An award of $400,000 that will help Rabin and Adjunct Professor Michael Taylor of MechE explore the role of synthetic ice blockers in protecting tissue


• $430,000 in funding to help Rabin and his Co-Investi- gators—Jeyanandh Paramesh, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Garry Fedder, Director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems—develop implantable, wireless sensors to monitor temperatures during cryosurgery•


Remembering David H. Archer


Dr. David H. Archer, Adjunct Professor in Carnegie Mellon’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, passed away at the age of 82 on June 24. Archer had a long history with Carnegie


Mellon. He received his Bachelors degree from CIT in 1948 and returned as an Assistant Professor of Chemical,


Mechanical, and Nuclear Engineering in 1953. In 1960, Archer joined Westinghouse Electric, where he had a distinguished 30-year career. In 1990, he returned to Carnegie Mellon to teach metallurgy, thermodynamics, fluid flow, heat transfer, process control, analysis, energy conversion, and nuclear engineering. Archer’s world-renowned research and development


in energy focused on fossil and nuclear fuel processing and power generation. His numerous awards included the Westinghouse Order of Merit, an election to the National Academy of Engineering, and research awards from the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Air Force, and NASA. He had more than 85 publications and 21 patents. Until recently, Archer was conducting research full-time at the Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium in the School of Architecture. Archer was predeceased by his wife Justine. He is


survived by a sister, four children, seven grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.•


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