IAS Outstanding Chapter Award 2008 Contest

The Outstanding Chapter Award 2008 contest resulted in a great success. We received nine nominations altogether, one from R6 and four from R9 and R10 each. The evaluation of the nominations was carried out by the CMD Awards Committee and the following winner chapters have been selected:

IAS Outstanding Large Chapter 2008
R6 San Francisco Section IAS Chapter (Sonny Siu, Chapter Chair)

IAS Outstanding Large Joint Chapter 2008
R10 Delhi Section PES/IAS Joint Chapter (Bhim Singh, Chapter Chair)

IAS Outstanding Small Joint Chapter 2008
R10 Hong Kong Section IAS/PES/PELS/IES Join Chapter (Chung Ching Yung, Chapter Chair)

IAS Outstanding New Chapter 2008
R10 Nanjing Section PES/IAS Joint Chapter (Ming Cheng, Chapter Chair)

IAS Continued Outstanding Performance Chapter 2008
R9 Panama Section IAS Chapter (Yinnis Solis, Chapter Chair)

The awards will be presented at the IAS Annual Meeting President´s Award Banquet in Hyatt Regency Hotel, Houston, TX, USA on Tuesday October 6, 2009, as part of the IAS Annual Meeting 2009 and the CMD Chapters Workshop. I express my sincere congratulations to all nominees but especially to the winner chapters on the excellent professional activity in 2008. I also highly appreciate the outstanding regional chapters´ leadership of David Eng (R6), Jorge Him (R9) and Satish Chaparala (R10), IAS Area Chairs of the winner chapters.