has joined the New York office of the law firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo as a member in the litigation section. With this experience in commercial litigation and arbitration, Samberg “will diversify and strengthen the collective expertise of our litigation practice,” said Robert I. Bodian, managing member of Mintz Levin’s New York office.
Prior to joining Mintz Levin, Samberg was a partner in the litigation group at Torys LLC, where he focused on international financial, commercial and technology-related disputes. He earned hishis PhD in organic chemistry and JD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

has won one Gold and one Bronze Award in the 2005 Summit Creative Awards® competition for his firm’s ‘outstanding creative work for Luminet Systems Group and Fisher Printing.’ The firm received the Gold Award in the “Consumer Logo/Trademark” category for an identity created for Luminet Systems Group. The Bronze was awarded in the “Specialty Item” category for Fisher Printing’s unique “Pie Box” self-promotion.

took a new job in August 2004 at the Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. Her new title is Marketing Team Leader, Membership and Donor Services. ‘The Henry Ford is an amazing place to work and I feel lucky to be here,’ Harding says. ‘I am currently interviewing college students for a marketing internship and I am happy to say that it looks like we will be hiring U-M students (even though MSU students had an opportunity also). :) GO BLUE!

has joined Maddin, Hauser, Wartell, Roth & Heller, P.C., a Southfield, Michigan-based law firm, as an associate attorney. Maddin concentrates his practice in the firm’s corporate law, transactions, employment, workforce management and real estate groups. He earned his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Wisconsin in 2003 and resides in Birmingham, Michigan.

has been active as a guest conductor during the 2004-2005 Season, conducting his first concert with the Chicago Philharmonic (where he serves as Associate Conductor), his second concerts with Poland’s Filharmonia Sudecka and the North Bohemian Philharmonic and his third with the National Symphony of Guatemala. In 2004-2005 Dr. Debbaut also served as Visiting Director of Orchestras at the Lawrence Conservatory of Music, conducting seven orchestral concerts including his first performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Michigan alumnus, Robert Breault, serving as tenor soloist. Dr. Debbaut’s 2005-2006 guest engagements include concerts with the Belgrade Philharmonic, Cairo Symphony, Janacek Philharmonic (Czech Republic), Novgorod Chamber Orchestra and Saint Petersburg Classic Orchestra (Russia), the Slovak Radio Orchestra and return engagements with the National Symphony of Guatemala and North Bohemian Philharmonic. In Summer 2006 his will make his conducting debut at both the Beethoven Festival Teplice and the inaugural Prague Festival of Strings in the Czech Republic. Visit his web site at http://hometown.aol.com/debbaut for further information about upcoming concerts.

already an award-wining journalist for the local radio station, recently moved to the world of television. He now hosts a daily news/interview program on Park City TV, which broadcasts to the entire Salt Lake City area.

has been promoted to Operations Manager of the Washington, DC regional office of HSMM, a leading architectural, engineering, and planning firm. As Operations Manager, Mr. Hopwood will oversee production for the DC office and will provide leadership for activities including staffing, recruiting, performance, and professional development. Since joining HSMM in 1999, he has served as Project Architect and most recently as Architectural Department Head. Mr. Hopwood continues to serve as Chief Architect for the firm’s Buildings Division.

has been elected partner at Detroit-based Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP. Forster is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Department, where he counsels clients in connection with a variety of real estate transactions including acquisitions and sales of shopping centers, office buildings and multifamily projects. He also has considerable experience in the area of equity investment partnerships, loan transactions, residential developments, leasing of retail and office space and acquisition and sale of affordable housing developments. Forster resides in Hamburg, Michigan.

, professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Cal., received in February the 2004 Harold F. Tipton Award, which recognizes lifelong contributions to the improvement of the information security profession. Denning literally wrote the book on computer security. Cryptography and Data Security, published by Addison-Wesley in 1982, is a classic textbook in the field.

Denning previously taught at Georgetown University, where she was the Callahan Family Professor of Computer Science and director of the Georgetown Institute of Information Assurance, and at Purdue University. She came to the Navy school in 2002 because “it seemed like an interesting and challenging environment and because I have a lot of respect for what the school is doing.It is definitely the leading edge in information security,” she told the Monterey Herald, which is the source of this item. Denning received her doctorate in computer science from Purdue University.