Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Assistant Professor Bo Wu and College of William and Mary Assistant Professor Xu Liu won best paper for "ScaAnalyzer: A Tool to Identify Memory Scalability Bottlenecks in Parallel Programs” in the Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in Austin, Texas.

Associate Professor Christopher Higgins (CEE) received a 2015 Excellence in Review Award from the Environmental Science & Technology journal.

Steve Sonnenberg, professor and Charles Boettcher Distinguished Chair in Petroleum Geology (GE), was selected to receive the 2016 Honorary Member of the House Award for the House of Delegates of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. AAPG is the world’s premier professional association for explorationists, with over 40,000 members in 129 countries.

Mines had additional honorees at the recent 2015 Society of Exploration Geophysists (SEG) annual meeting:

CEE Department Head John McCray was recently elected to the executive committee of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’ Board on Oceans, Atmosphere, and Climate (BOAC). The board’s mission is to provide federal relations for issues involving university-based programs in marine, atmospheric, and climatological sciences. BOAC representatives are chosen by their president’s office to serve. They include some of the nation's leading research and educational expertise in atmospheric, marine, and climate disciplines.

• Several Geophysics faculty were honored at the recent 2015 Society of Exploration Geophysists (SEG) annual meeting in New Orleans: