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TUSCALOOSA University of Alabama junior Saketh Myneni was named the Southeast Region Player to Watch by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. Myneni and the other seven region winners form the pool from which the ITA National Player to Watch will be selected. That award will be announced later this month . “This is another great honor for Saketh,” head coach Billy Pate said. “Undoubtedly, he is still improving and getting better each day, so it’s very appropriate he is recognized as a player who could break through even more next year.” Myneni is an All-SEC First Team selection finishing the regular dual-match season with a singles record of 15-7 and 17-8 mark in doubles. He is ranked 22nd in the nation in singles and reached as high as No. 14 on the doubles charts with senior partner Billy Mertz. Myneni has defeated 10 nationally ranked opponents this season, including three in the top 10. Fourteen of his 15 dual-match wins have come in straight sets. “Winning the award for our re...

Madhu Koneru is building a road to the future that will bring together the financial heft of the Middle East, the technological know-how of a rising India and the vast natural resources of emerging Indonesia. The $800 million infrastructure project his company, RAK Minerals & Metals Investments, is undertaking in Kalimantan will provide better access to the rich coal deposits there and create new opportunities and thousands of jobs. The project includes a 135-kilometer rail line, a road and a coal terminal. The next stage of the project will include a $3 billion smelter and 1,400-megawatt power plant, which Koneru said would create 3,000 new jobs in the future. “This is not rocket science,” he said. “We are developing traditional infrastructure that creates employment and industrial growth using Indonesian coal as the base.” RMMI, a joint venture between India’s Trimex Group and the United Arab Emirates, has been working on the railway project for the past two years and expects to...

The SMTA and Chip Scale Review announce that Professor Rao Tummala will be the keynote speaker at the 6th Annual International Wafer-Level Packaging Conference being held October 27-30, 2009 at the Santa Clara Marriott Hotel in Santa Clara, California . Prof. Rao Tummala is a Distinguished and Endowed Chair Professor, and Founding Director of NSF ERC at Georgia Tech, the largest Academic Center in Microsystems pioneering System-On-Package (SOP) vision, since 1994. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was an IBM Fellow, pioneering such major technologies as the first plasma flat panel display based on gas discharge, the first and next three generations of multichip packaging based on 35-layer alumina and 61-layer LTCC with copper and copper-polymer thin film, and materials for ink-jet printing and magnetic storage. Prof. Tummala has published 426 technical papers, holds 74 patents and inventions; authored the first modem packaging reference book-Microelectronics Packaging Handbook (Van Nos...