Mark Reed is appointed Harold Hodgkinson Professor

Mark A. Reed, an award-winning scientist noted for his work in nanotechnology and molecular electronics, has been named the Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering and Applied Science by vote of the Yale Corporation.

Reed has held a joint appointment as professor in the electrical engineering and applied physics departments since coming to Yale in 1990, the same year he was named by Fortune Magazine as one of America's most promising young scientists. He has chaired the department of electrical engineering since 1995.

His research activities have included the investigation of nanoscale and mesoscopic systems, tunneling and transport in heterojunction systems, artificially structured materials and devices, MEMS, nanotechnology and molecular electronics. Reed holds 12 U.S. and foreign patents on quantum effect, heterojunction and molecular devices. He has authored more than 85 professional publications and three books: "Nanostructure Physics and Fabrication," "Nanostructures and Mesoscopic Systems" and "Nanostructured Systems," which is part of the series "Semiconductors and Semimetals."

In 1994, Reed won the Kilby Young Innovator Award for his scientific contributions, and in 1997, he was presented the DARPA ULTRA Most Significant Achievement Award for his work in molecular electronics.

The scientist earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University. He was the cofounder and principal investigator for the nanoelectronics research program at Texas Instruments, where he became a member of the technical staff in the Ultrasmall Electronics Branch in 1983. His accomplishments there include the first demonstrations of a quantum dot and resonant tunneling transistor. He was elected a senior member of the technical staff at Texas Instruments in 1988.

Reed has chaired numerous international conferences and program committees and is an associate editor for a number of technical journals, including Physical Review Letters. He is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering and is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Stephen Skowronek is named the Pelatiah Perit Professor

Stephen Skowronek, an expert on American politics whose scholarship has focused on the nation's presidents and the institution of the presidency, has been named the Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science by vote of the Yale Corporation.

Skowronek, a member of the Yale faculty since 1986, is the author of "The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to George Bush," published in 1993, and its second edition, "The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton," published in 1997. The first edition won two awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 1994: the J. David Greenstone Prize for best book in politics and history and the Richard E. Neustadt Prize for best book on the presidency.

Skowronek is also the author of "Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920" and of numerous articles on the presidency and on American political and institutional development. He is currently at work on a volume examining American political development.

Skowronek earned his A.B. from Oberlin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University. He taught at Cornell and the University of California at Los Angeles before coming to Yale, where he has held a joint appointment since 1993 at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He was director of undergraduate studies in the political science department 1989-94.

An invited lecturer at colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and Europe, Skowronek held the French-American Chair in American Civilization at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris 1996-97. He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1985-86. He is an academic adviser and lead consultant for the public television series "The Presidents in Their Own Words," which will air in the year 2000.

Skowronek is the founder and managing editor of the biannual journal Studies in American Political Development, and serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals. He is a member of APSA, the Social Science History Association and the American Historical Association.

Jerry Woodall joins faculty as C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor

Jerry M. Woodall, who has been a pioneer in research on semiconductor materials and devices, has joined the Yale faculty as the C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor of Electrical Engineering by vote of the Yale Corporation.

Woodall has been the Charles William Harrison Distinguished Professor of Microelectronics at Purdue University since 1993. He has been at the forefront of research on crystals that has had implications for the development of laser technology, cellular phones, remote control and data link applications, optical fiber communications and other fields. In addition, his research has led to the creation of new areas of solid-state physics, and he pioneered the "pseudomorphic" HEMT, a state-of-the-art high speed device widely used in commercial devices and circuits.

Woodall holds more than 65 U.S. patents and has written more than 275 scholarly articles and papers. His accomplishments have been recognized by numerous honors, including nearly 40 research and achievement awards from IBM. His other honors include the Jack A. Morton Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Heinrich Welker Gold Medal, the American Society for Engineering Education's General Electric Senior Research Award, the Electrochemical Society's Edward Goodrich Acheson (Founder's) Award (its highest honor) and the American Vacuum Society's Medard Welch (Founder's) Award (its highest honor).

A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Woodall earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University. He worked briefly as a staff engineer at Clevite Transistor Products in Waltham, Massachusetts, before joining IBM Research as a research staff member in 1962. He became an IBM Fellow at IBM Research in 1985 and held that post until joining the Purdue University faculty. He is currently a consultant to IBM and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Woodall is also a fellow of the American Vacuum Society (AVS), the Electrochemical Society (ECS), the IEEE and the American Physical Society. He is a former president of the ECS and is the current president of the AVS.