After coming to Virginia Tech as an Associate Professor in 2008 from a research position at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Prof. Mike Ruohoniemi was awarded tenure at Virginia Tech in June 2013. During his time at Virginia Tech, he, along with Prof. Jo Baker, has built a team that currently consists of eight graduate students and two staff members. He has also mentored a post-doc and a number of students who have already graduated. Since 2008, this team has helped to build 7 new radars and be fully responsible for daily operations of 5 SuperDARN radars. Virginia Tech SuperDARN now has a leading website for providing space weather data to the world, as well credit for the publication of numerous new findings in the field. None of this would have been possible without Prof. Ruohoniemi's leadership. Prof. Ruohoniemi also teaches courses in the electrical engineering department on radar design, satellite communications, antenna design, and electromagnetics.

Congratulations, Mike!!!