Abstract :
The Piergiorgio L.E. Uslenghi Letters Prize Paper Award was established in 2009 to recognize the best contribution published in the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters in the preceding year. The 2012 prize was awarded to Nader Behdad, Mudar A. Al-Joumayly, and Meng Li for "Biologically Inspired Electrically Small Antenna Arrays with Enhanced Directional Sensitivity," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propag. Lett., vol. 10, pp. 361??364, 2011. A brief biography of the authors is provided.