Finster Honored by National Academy of Engineering
7/29/2009
 Argonne assistant environmental systems engineer Mary (Molly) Finster (EVS) has been selected as one of the nation's brightest young engineers by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and will participate in the academy's 15th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium.
The symposium will be held Sept. 10-12 at the National Academies' Beckman Center at the University of California, Irvine. This recognition is awarded to 88 engineers, aged 30 to 45, who are performing exceptional engineering and technical work in a variety of disciplines. The participants from industry, academia and government were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations and chosen from approximately 240 applicants. "In today's challenging economic times, we look more than ever toward our engineering innovators," said NAE President Charles M. Vest. "The U.S. Frontiers of Engineering program brings together a diverse group of this country's most promising young engineers and gives them a forum to discuss multi-disciplinary ways of addressing the issues that will carry us into tomorrow's economy." The symposium will examine engineering tools for scientific discovery, engineering the health-care delivery system, nano- and micro-photonics and new applications, and resilient and sustainable infrastructures. A featured speaker will be Bradford W. Parkinson, Edward C. Wells Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Emeritus at Stanford University. Parkinson is credited with being the father of the Global Positioning System, is a recipient of the prestigious Draper Prize, and a member of the NAE. Finster has more than three years of experience within the Environmental Sciences Division working on a variety of Argonne projects to support federal programs, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Her research activities have included evaluating and integrating chemical, physical, and biological toxicity and environmental fate data to support health-based exposure levels for priority contaminants, and developing integrated databases that incorporate information from the current scientific literature to evaluate potential health effects of environmental contaminants (including dioxin) and assess environmental impacts of specific federal projects.
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