COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M Engineering researchers were among those honored by The Texas A&M University System's Office of Technology Commercialization April 4 at the 2008 Patent and Innovation Awards.

John Criscione, an assistant faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and John Junkins, a distinguished professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, were each presented with an Innovation Award.

Criscione studies how mechanics, the study of force and motion in matter, applies to the biology of the heart. Junkins' research has been implemented in more than a dozen space missions.

"Four percent of the U.S. population are engineers or scientists. They create the jobs for the other 96 percent of us," Michael D. McKinney, M.D., chancellor of the A&M System, said in his keynote address. "When the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opened its doors in 1876, part of its land grand mission was to make research available to the masses. That is still our mission."

Patent Award winners from TEES were Mark Holtzapple, Charles Culp III, David Claridge, Jeff Haberl, William Turner, Edward Dougherty, Wei Zhang, Szeming Cheng, Zhixin Liu, Yinging Huang, Jean-Louis Briaud, Andrew Fawcett, Matthew Potter and Patrick Briaud.

Patent Award winners from the TTI were Roger Bligh, Hayes Ross Jr., C. Eugene Buth, D. Lance Bullard Jr., Dean Alberson and Akram Abu-Odeh.

"These are the people who have helped place the System in an important leadership position in technology commercialization to benefit our state, nation and world," Guy Diedrich, vice chancellor for technology commercialization, said of the Patent Award winners.

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News Story 1806, April 7, 2008

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