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Distinguished Professor Christopher Bowman of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions accorded to engineers.
Professor Kristi Anseth will be the recipient of the prestigious Herman F. Mark Polymer Chemistry Award at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2021 meeting.- The Department of Energy followed up with Prof. Hayward to discuss his Early Career Award.
It’s been an eventful and challenging year. Since March, like everyone else, we’ve had to make major changes to how we operate during the pandemic. This has involved radical changes to how we teach and learn. It has also had a significant impact on research in our laboratories.
Next summer, renowned chemist and researcher Seth Marder will join the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute as director and will begin joint appointments at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as a senior research fellow and at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Department of Chemistry.
An international team of researchers including Professor Michael Toney has developed a new technique for precisely tracking the movement of ions within batteries, a discovery that may have far-reaching impacts on how safe and efficient batteries are developed.
Department alumnus Professor H. Scott Fogler (PhDChemEngr'65) was recently named a Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year by the Michigan Association of State Universities, a prestigious honor among faculty members working in public university undergraduate education.
Megan English, a graduate student in the Team Weimer Chemical and Biological Engineering research group, is the recipient of the Ryland Family Graduate Fellowship for the 2020-21 academic year.
Brian Aguado, a postdoctoral researcher in the Anseth Research Group, is the recipient of this year’s Outstanding Postdoc Award, which recognizes postdoctoral associates and fellows at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä for their research, communication and leadership accomplishments.
Professor Christine Hrenya is the recipient of the AIChE 2020 Shell Thomas Baron Award in Fluid-Particle Systems, an award that recognizes a researcher who has made a significant impact in the fluid particle systems field or related subjects.