April 15, 2020
Faculty/staff honors: Fellowships in medical and biological engineering; a remembrance of Ellis Goldberg
Recent honors to University of Washington faculty and staff include fellows named by an organization for medical and biological engineering, and a remembrance of political science professor Ellis Goldberg, who died in 2019.
David Baker, Dayong Gao, Herbert Sauro named fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
David Baker
UW professors David Baker, Dayong Gao and Herbert Sauro have been named fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
The three faculty members are among the institute’s Fellows Class of 2020, numbering 157 in all, chosen for their “distinguished and continuing achievements” in medical and biological engineering.
Dayong Gao
Called the AIMBE for short, the institute is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization. Its 2,000-member College of Fellows includes outstanding engineers, entrepreneurs and innovators in medical and biological engineering.
The organization advocates for the value of medical bioengineering in society. Its mission, which also drives advocacy initiatives, is to “recognize excellence, advance the public understanding and accelerate medical and biological innovation,” according to its website.
Herbert Sauro
Baker is a professor of biochemistry and directs the Institute for Protein Design. Gao is a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Cryo-Biomedical Engineering and Artificial Organs. Sauro is a professor of bioengineering and director of the National Health Institutes Center for Reproducible Biomedical Modeling. All three have affiliate appointments in other departments as well.
Election to the institute’s College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biological engineer; fellows include three Nobel Prize laureates and 18 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Science or National Medal of Technology and Innovation. The institute’s annual meeting, scheduled for March, was cancelled due to health concerns and the fellows were inducted remotely.
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Essay fondly remembers Ellis Goldberg, professor of political science
A researcher with the nonprofit Middle East Research and Information Project has penned a remembrance and appreciation of Ellis Goldberg, UW professor of political science, who died September 20, 2019, at the age of 72.
Ellis Goldberg
Goldberg, a political economist and scholar of Middle East politics, was a longtime UW faculty member and former director of the Middle East Center in the Jackson School of International Studies. He also wrote a blog called “Nisr al-Nasr” that commented on Middle Eastern and U.S. politics.
He is remembered fondly on the Middle East research project’s website by Mona El-Ghobashy, clinical assistant professor in Liberal Studies at New York University, in an essay titled “Ellis Goldberg, Egypt and a Reverence for Life.”
El-Ghobashy writes that Goldberg “loved Egypt and knew more about its history and political economy than anyone I know. … At a time when lives in Egypt are imperiled by deprivation, dictatorship and disease, as are so many lives across the globe, an intellectual sensibility grounded in a reverence for life is a gift and an exigency.”
With Goldberg’s death, El-Ghobashy writes, “we lost one of the most erudite, generous and original scholars of the modern Middle East and North Africa, a truly reflective mind …” Read the essay here.
There were remembrances of Goldberg from the Department of Political Science and the Middle East Center as well.
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Tag(s): American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering • College of Arts & Sciences • College of Engineering • David Baker • Dayong Gao • Department of Biochemistry • Department of Bioengineering • Department of Political Science • Ellis Goldberg • Herbert Sauro • Institute for Protein Design • Jackson School of International Studies • Middle East Center • National Health Institutes Center for Reproducible Biomedical Modeling • School of Medicine
