Elisabeth Smela Receives NSF CAREER Award

Assistant Professor Elisabeth Smela has won a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for her project titled, "Development of Advanced MEMS Actuator Technology for Microrobotics." The NSF CAREER program fosters the career development of outstanding junior faculty, combining the support of research and education of the highest quality and in the broadest sense.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity thatoffers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards for new faculty members. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. CAREER awardees are selected on the basis of creative, career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution.

Published February 15, 2003