Charles M. Vest, president of the National Academy of Engineering, presented electrical engineer Robert H. Dennard ’54, ’56 with the Academy’s 2009 Charles Stark Draper Prize “for his invention and contributions to the development of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), used universally in computers and other data processing and communication systems.” Dennard, who lives in Croton-on-Hudson, NY, has won numerous awards for his contributions to the field of microelectronics, and he received SMU’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1993.