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David Walt Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Tufts University Robinson Professor of Chemistry David Walt was named to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his development of revolutionary sensors that can simultaneously image and perform biochemical analyses.
Walt was one of 65 new members and nine foreign associates to the NAE. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,227 and the number of foreign associates to 194. Walt is the second professor in the School of Engineering, following Dean Linda M. Abriola, to receive this designation.
The Walt Laboratory at Tufts is world-renowned for its pioneering work that applies micro and nanotechnology to urgent biological problems such as the analysis of genetic variation and the behavior of single cells, as well as the practical application of arrays to the detection of diseases, explosives, chemical warfare agents, and food and waterborne pathogens.
In 2006, Walt was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, a prestigious honor given to 20 professors from leading research universities. The award includes a $1 million grant from the medical institute to advance innovation in undergraduate science teaching.
In addition to his appointment in the chemistry department in the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, Walt is also an adjunct professor in the biomedical engineering department in the School of Engineering. Before coming to Tufts in 1981, Walt was a postdoctoral research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his doctorate from SUNY at Stony Brook in New York and his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature," and to the "pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education."
