Regents confirm new student member
The UC Board of Regents voted unanimously Thursday to confirm
the appointment of UC Santa Barbara graduate student Kathryn
McClymond as the next student regent.
McClymond is scheduled to begin her term in July, replacing
current student board member Jess Bravin, who is a student at UC
Berkeley’s Boalt School of Law. Until Bravin’s term ends, McClymond
will serve as a regent designate to the board. As a designate,
McClymond will participate in all meetings, but will not have the
power to vote until July.
"She already has a great deal of knowledge about the
university," said Regent Sue Johnson, who was on the committee that
selected McClymond.
"I’ve found that some of the best student regents are graduate
students. I felt she was a young woman who would fully represent
all students."
McClymond is a single parent and working toward a doctorate in
philosophy.
She graduated from Harvard University in 1982 and received a
master’s degree in religion from Trinity Divinity School.
"My long-term goals focus on the role of women in higher
education," McClymond said. "My place is more unusual as a student
because child care affects my studies, but it makes me more
focused."
Professor elected to engineering academy
Professor Chih-Ming Ho of UCLA’s Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering Department has been elected a member of the National
Academy of Engineering.
Ho, an expert in turbulence control, was among 85 engineers
nationwide who were announced as new members Feb. 14 by Academy
interim president Wm. A. Wulf. Ho was elected for his
"contributions to the understanding and control of turbulent
flows."
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the
highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Those
chosen are honored for making "important contributions to
engineering theory and practice, including significant
contributions to the literature of engineering theory and
practice," and for demonstrating "unusual accomplishment in the
pioneering of new and developing fields of technology."
The latest selections bring the Academy’s total U.S. membership
to 1,893 and the number of foreign associates to 153.
Ho, who has been a faculty member in the School of Engineering
and Applied Science since 1991, is director of the school’s Center
for Micro Systems. His primary research areas have been in
turbulence, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), aerodynamics,
aeroacoustics and bio-fluid mechanics.
The primary focus of Ho’s current research is in the development
of "smart skin" for active control of turbulence, which could lead
to radically new aircraft designs that move beyond conventional
aircraft structure. Using this type of technology, aircraft
designers might be able, in the future, to dispense entirely with
flaps, airerons and other standard control surfaces.
Before joining UCLA, Ho was a faculty member at the University
of Southern California, from 1975 to 1991. He received his
bachelor’s degree from National Taiwan University in 1967 and his
doctorate in mechanics from Johns Hopkins University in 1974.
He has published more than 130 papers in the research areas
described above and received U.S. patents in MEMS-based
transducers, optical sensors, and in nozzle design to enhance mass
transfer.
He was chair of the Fluid Dynamics Division of the American
Physical Society, has been a guest editorial committee member of
the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, and was associate editor of
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Journal of Fluids
Engineering.
Compiled from Daily Bruin wire reports.