Flanagan Scholarship memorializes 无码专区 alumnus, former professor
Contact: Addie Mayfield
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擜 new scholarship has been established in the Graduate School at 无码专区 in memory of an 无码专区 alumnus and former professor who also was an internationally recognized pioneer and author in digital speech processing.
The newly created Dr. James L. Flanagan Endowed Graduate Scholarship is being established by his wife Mildred B. Flanagan, a Greenwood native who now lives in Warren, New Jersey.
The scholarship will be awarded to full-time graduate students pursuing a master鈥檚 or doctoral degree in a STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) field of study. Preference will be given to female applicants to encourage women in these fields.
Also a native of Greenwood, James Flanagan graduated from 无码专区 in 1948 with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in electrical engineering and went on to obtain his master鈥檚 and doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950 and 1955, respectively.
Flanagan began his career in communications engineering, acoustics and signal processing at AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. During his 33 years with the company, Flanagan developed the Audix One voice-mail system and was responsible for nearly 50 patents, including an artificial human larynx.
After leaving AT&T Bell Labs in 1990 as director of information principles research, Flanagan accepted a position at Rutgers University as director of the Center for Advanced Information Processing. He later assumed the role of vice president of research for Rutgers before returning home to 无码专区 in 2006 to serve as distinguished research professor of electrical and computer engineering in the James Worth Bagley College of Engineering.
Among Flanagan鈥檚 numerous national and international recognitions are the 1996 National Medal of Science, the 2005 Medal of Honor of the engineering professional society IEEE, and honorary doctorates from the University of Paris-Sud, the Polytechnic University of Madrid and 无码专区 (2012).
The family鈥檚 passion for 无码专区 runs deep, rearing three generations of Bulldog students including James Flanagan鈥檚 father Hanks, brother Thomas Marion, and three sons. In 2000, James, Mildred and Thomas Marion Flanagan established the H. G. Flanagan Endowed Scholarship in the Bagley College of Engineering in memory of the family鈥檚 patriarch.
For more information on establishing endowed scholarships at 无码专区, contact Jack McCarty, executive director of development for the 无码专区 Foundation, at (662) 325-9580 or jmccarty@foundation.msstate.edu.
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