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Whitten selected as 2020 STC Innovation Fellow
April 27, 2020 - by STC.UNM
"The Innovation Fellow award has been presented each year since 2010 by the STC.UNM Board of Directors to a faculty inventor whose body of technologies has made a significant social and economic impact on society and the marketplace."
"This year we honor Dr. David G. Whitten as the 2020 Innovation Fellow. Dr. Whitten has over 50 year of experience as a scientist and an academic. He joined the University of New Mexico in 2005 and has since excelled as an inventor, disclosing 33 technologies and has received 17 issued patents. He was selected as a Distinguished Professor in 2016 and is the Associate Director for the Center for Biomedical Engineering. He also serves as Associate Editor for ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces." Read 2020 STC.UNM Innovation Awards Honors University of New Mexico Inventors, Innovation Fellow and NAI Fellows