News Archives 2005 The PBS Nightly Business Report featured work from MSAL on Nov 23rd, 2005 Pruessner finished his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in August 2005 A 2005 Washington Post article praises UMD leadership in nanotechnology and features MSAL work Chuang finished his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in May 2005 Pruessner won the best student paper award at the 17th IPRM Conference in Glasgow, Scotland in 2005 Morgan was a finalist in the University of Maryland's 18th annual invention of the year awards in 2005 Modafe, Ghalichechian are recipients of the 2004 MEMS and NEMS Technical Group Graduate Award Reza Ghodssi was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in March 2005 Brian Morgan has been awarded a 2005-2006 ARCS Scholarship