faculty news Michael Filler Started a podcast called Nanovation, a forum to address the big questions, challenges, and opportunities of nanotechnology. Nineteen episodes are available online to date.
Mark Prausnitz Selected as one of three recipients of Georgia Bio’s 2016 Innovation Awards.
Cliff Henderson and Sankar Nair Each lead teams that won $1 million research grants from the National Science Foundation in its competitive Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer Our Future program. Dennis Hess Selected as the 79th Honorary Member of the Electrochemical Society for his exceptional contributions to the field. William Koros Elected as one of five Inaugural Fellows of the North American Membrane Society
Ryan Lively Leading two projects that won grants from the Department of Energy for enhancing the operational efficiency of systems that reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Total funding of two projects: $3.6 million.
Hang Lu Won the Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award for excellence in mentoring doctoral students. Martin Maldovan Won an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF) Doctoral New Investigator Award for his proposed research on “Metamaterials for Manipulation of Chemical Mixtures.” Sally Ng Won the 2016 Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award at Georgia Tech.
Pamela Peralta-Yahya Selected as a 2016 Kavli Fellow by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Named the 2016 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Chemical Engineering Division Lectureship Award Winner.
David Sholl
His book Density Functional Theory, A Practical Introduction was published in Chinese translation by Wiley. Jacqueline Mohalley Snedeker Co-authored a college textbook on technical writing, Writing Style and Standards in Undergraduate Reports, 3rd edition. Yonathan Thio Won the AIChE Outstanding Faculty Award for ChBE.
Center for Chemical Evolution Gets Big Boost The National Science Foundation has renewed the Center for Chemical Evolution (CCE) for another 5 years and $20 million in its quest to understand the origins of life on Earth. ChBE faculty members involved in CCE include Andreas Bommarius, Martha Grover, Charles Liotta, Sally Ng, and F. Joseph Schork. The CCE is looking for a missing link between the prebiotic world and the biological world we live in – two worlds that could hardly be more different.
Researchers Win Major Grant for Algal Biofuels Georgia Tech is part of a team that won a $5 million grant from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to advance the state-of-the-art in algal production and biofuel processing with the end goal of a sustainable, economically viable biofuel intermediate. Tech’s partners on the project include team leader Algenol Biotech LLC as well as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Reliance Industries Limited. ChBE faculty who are involved include Matthew Realff and Ronald Chance.
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