Professor Klaus Mueller has received 2011 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. 

The award is given to faculty "who have demonstrated a record of sustained scholarship in the sciences, humanities, and professional studies or consistent creative productivity in the fine and performing arts." There will be an official awards dinner in October. The award will be announced in "Happenings", the University's Senate report, and other venues in the fall. Prof. Mueller does research in Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Biomedical Informatics, Medical Imaging, and High Performance Computing. He has won the NSF Early Career Award in 2001. He has published more than 150 peer reviewed journal and conference papers, which have been cited more than 3,500 times, according to Google Scholar. He has participated in 15 tutorials at international conferences and has served as conference and paper chair in various leading scientific venues. He is a senior member of the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.