University Park, PA (November 24, 2004)

Dennis Newton

Dennis Newton, B. S. in Engineering Science ('63) and M. S. in Meteorology ('74), has been selected by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) as the recipient of the 2005 Losey Atmospheric Sciences Award.

Mr. Newton is one of the nation's foremost aircraft icing experts and a highly respected author in aviation meteorology. He was selected for the Losey award because of his outstanding career of research, leadership, and practical guidance in the field of inflight icing and hazardous weather affecting aviation.

While at Penn State, Mr. Newton served as chief research pilot for the Department of Meteorology; his in-flight experience during this time led to new ideas for testing aircraft in icing conditions as documented by several of his early publications.

Mr. Newton is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA and has been actively involved in aviation-weather committees in other professional societies and in the government. For more than a decade, he has contributed his practical knowledge to the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and from 1998 to 2001 he served as chairman of a 25-member international working group established by the FAA for recommending new regulations governing flight in freezing rain and freezing drizzle. In June 2003, Mr. Newton was an invited guest speaker along with another famous pilot and author, Robert N. Buck, at the FAA-sponsored In-flight Icing & Ground De-icing International Conference and Exhibition in Chicago.

In 1940, the Robert M. Losey Award was established in memory of Captain Robert M. Losey, a meteorological officer who was killed while serving as an observer for the U.S. Army, the first officer in the service of the United States to die in World War II. In 1975, the name of the award was changed to the Losey Atmospheric Sciences Award. It is presented in recognition of outstanding contributions to the atmospheric sciences as applied to the advancement of aeronautics and astronautics.

AIAA is the world's leading professional society in the broad areas of aeronautics and astronautics, and the preeminent worldwide aerospace information resource. For more information visit http://www.aiaa.org.

Mr. Newton will be presented with this award, which includes an engraved bronze medal, a certificate of citation, and a rosette pin, on 11 January 2005 at the Awards Luncheon at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno Hilton Resort & Casino in Reno, Nevada.


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