Honors

Jacob Wobbrock, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, took first place in a national design competition for his role in developing a text entry technique called EdgeWrite.

The technique is designed for use with handheld devices, but also can be adapted for use with wheelchair joysticks and can be an alternative to keyboard entry for any number of computer devices. EdgeWrite is suitable for use by people with motor impairments.

The contest, the National Scholar Awards for Workplace Innovation and Design is sponsored by NISH, a national nonprofit agency promoting employment of people with severe disabilities.

Guo-Qiang Bi, a neurobiologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, is one of eight scientists to receive a prestigious Summer Research Fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.

Bi's research focuses on the cellular basis of learning and memory. He will pursue this research at the Cape Cod lab through Aug. 5, using advanced imaging and electrophysical methods to study the connections between nerve cells.