Brenner, Koch and Sitar named Kobe Distinguished Professors

An endowment funded by Kobe Steel in 1988 led to the appointment of Dr. R.F. Davis as the first Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor, a position he held until his retirement in 2004. The endowment's growth since then was deemed sufficient to support more than one faculty member, enabling the appointments of Brenner, Koch and Sitar.

Brenner, whose specialty is computational materials modeling, joined the MSE faculty in 1994 as an associate professor and became a full professor in 2003. He holds a B.S. degree in chemistry from the State University of New York and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Pennsylvania State University. In 2002, Brenner won the prestigious Feynman Award for nanotechnology research.

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