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David A. Edwards, Ph.D., honored at Commencement

David A. Edwards, Ph.D., was awarded the Melvin Calvin Medal of Distinction, Michigan Tech's highest honor, at the Spring 2007 Commencement. Dr. Edwards earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Tech, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He currently serves as the Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard University. Dr. Edwards is the fifth recipient of this award since it was created in 1985.

Links

• Press Release - Read the Michigan Tech press release
• David A. Edwards, Ph.D. - Visit Dr. Edward's home page at Harvard University
• Melvin Calvin - Read about the namesake of the Medal of Distinction. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Michigan Tech in 1931 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1961.
• Dr. Edwards was featured in this Newsweek story on medical breakthroughs.