Assistant Professor Kyle Leach (PH) has been elected Chair-Elect 2016: TRIUMF User’s Group Executive Committee. TRIUMF is Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics. It is owned and operated as a joint venture by a consortium of Canadian universities via a contribution through the National Research Council Canada with building capital funds provided by the government of British Columbia. TRIUMF is one of the world’s leading subatomic physics laboratories.

John Poate, emeritus senior vice president, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society. The 2015 Fellows account for more than 5,300 issued U.S. patents, bringing the collective patents held by all NAI Fellows to more than 20,000.

A journal paper co-authored by Associate Professor Michael Wakin (EECS), "Signal Processing With Compressive Measurements” has been selected as the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award.