[A photograph of Dr. Andreas Acrivos is available at http://www.clarkson.edu/news/photos/acrivosa.jpg]
Newswise — Dr. Andreas "Andy" Acrivos, Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus of Science and Engineering at the City College of the City University of New York and Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University will be a featured speaker at Clarkson University's 112th Commencement in Potsdam, New York, on Sunday, May 8.
Acrivos will also address more than 700 Clarkson students who will be granted bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees that day.
He will also receive an honorary degree from Clarkson for his profound contributions to the field of suspension rheology, a discipline of relevance to problems in physiology as well as in energy production and transport and for his distinguished university career, spanning nearly 50 years.
Dr. Acrivos is considered a pioneer in the field of Fluid Mechanics and has received numerous awards from professional societies including the Colburn, Professional Progress, and Lewis Awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; the Fluid Dynamics Prize from the American Physical Society; and the Bingham Medal from the Society of Rheology. He has also received two Guggenheim Fellowships and seven honorary degrees. Acrivos is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. On the eve of his 74th birthday, Dr. Acrivos was honored with the 2001 National Medal of Science from President Bush.
Contributions made to the field of Fluid Mechanics by Acrivos include some 200 scientific articles, primarily in the field of suspension rheology, which is of relevance to problems in physiology as well as in energy production and transport. He served as the Editor of The Physics of Fluids from 1982-1997, and is credited with transforming it into one of the two top journals in Fluid Mechanics on an international scale. In the role of mentor during his teaching and research tenure, Acrivos was the principal Ph.D. thesis advisor for 45 students, a number of whom have already achieved international recognition, such as election to the U.S. Academy of Sciences or the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, e.g. A.S. Grove (NAE, Semiconductor Technology), R.E. Davis (NAS, Oceanography), L.G. Leal (NAE, Fluid Mechanics), W.B. Russel (NAE, Colloids) and J.F. Brady (Rheology).
A native of Athens, Greece, Dr. Acrivos came to the U.S. in 1947 to attend Syracuse University. He earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Syracuse in 1950 and his Ph.D., also in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Minnesota in 1954. He then joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley. In 1962 Acrivos became a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University. He retired from that position in 1988. That same year Acrivos was appointed the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering at the City College of the City University of New York and director of its Benjamin Levich Institute, a post from which he retired in 2000. He resides on the Stanford campus with his wife of 49 years, Juana Vivo Acrivos, a professor of Chemistry at the California State University in San Jose.
Clarkson University, located in Potsdam, New York, is an independent university with a reputation for developing innovative leaders in engineering, business and the arts and sciences. Its academically rigorous, collaborative culture involves 2,700 undergraduates and 400 graduate students in hands-on team projects, multidisciplinary research, and real-world challenges. Many faculty members achieve international recognition for their scholarship and research, and teaching is a priority at every level. For more information, visit http://www.clarkson.edu.
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