Sturm appointed to endowed professorship
At its meeting on Monday May 30, 2005, the Trustees of Princeton University recognized the outstanding contributions to Princeton of Prof. James Sturm by appointing him to the William and Edna Macaleer Professorship of Engineering and Applied Science. Prof. Sturm received the B.S.E. degree in electrical engineering and engineering physics from Princeton University in 1979, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in 1981 and 1985, respectively, from Stanford University. He joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1986 where he is currently a professor and Director of the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM). In 1994-95, he was a von Humboldt Fellow at the Institut fuer Halbleitertechnik at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and from 1997 to 2003 he was director of the Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials (POEM) at Princeton. He has worked in the fields of silicon-based heterojunctions, three-dimensional integration, silicon-on-insulator, optical interconnects, TFT’s, and organic light emitting diodes. Dr. Sturm is a fellow of IEEE, the American Physical Society, and the Materials Research Society, and was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator. He has won numerous awards for teaching excellence, including six awards from the Princeton student Engineering Council, the School of Engineering and Applied Science Teaching Award, the Princeton President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the W.M. Keck Foundation Award for Engineering Teaching Excellence