UA's Bobbitt, Fritsch Named Fellows of National Academy of Inventors
From the UA Newswire comes news that the UA's Donald Bobbitt and Ingrid Fritsch have been named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
Bobbitt, of course, is president of the UA System. Fritsch serves on the board of IA client SFC Fluidics, a VIC Technology Development portfolio company.
Both are members of the chemistry and biochemistry faculty at the UA in Fayetteville.
Here's more:
Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society, according to the academy.
Bobbitt, a 2014 initiate into the academy, was awarded patents for discoveries he made in the 1990s as a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He joined the faculty in 1985 and received a University of Arkansas Alumni Association Award in Teaching and the Fulbright College Master Teacher Award, among other honors. He served as dean of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the U of A from 2003-08...
...Fritsch was initiated into the National Academy of Inventors in 2013. She came to the U of A faculty in 1992 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a postdoctoral associate.
She is the recipient of the 1997 Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry Young Investigator Award, a National Science Foundation Career Award, an NSF Special Creativity Extension and an American Chemical Society Chemistry Ambassadorship. She holds 10 U.S. patents and has co-founded two startup companies. She is currently on the board of directors of SFC Fluidics Inc.
Congratulations to both. Again, here's the full story from the UA Newswire.