Planet Cardinal

Phil Engelauf, MS ’81, has been named NASA’s chief flight director. He will lead the group that directs NASA’s space shuttle and International Space Station missions as well as plans for missions to the moon and Mars. . . . José Roberto Juárez, ’77, is the first Hispanic to be appointed dean of the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver. . . . Armin Rosencranz, JD ’61, MA ’63, PhD ’70, consulting professor in human biology at Stanford, was named the 2005 ASSU Teacher of the Year in recognition of outstanding contributions to students’ academic development. . . . Elizabeth Howton, ’90, is one of 12 journalists selected to spend the 2006-07 academic year on the MIT campus in the 24th class of Knight Science Journalism Fellows. . . . Alan Burdick, ’88, National Book Award finalist for Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, has won the Whitman Bassow Award for best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues.