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02/03/2012 College of Engineering
Suljo Linic won the Monroe-Brown Foundation Research Excellence Award and Nick Kotov was part of a team that won the Ted Kennedy Family Team Excellence Award

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01/21/2012 Chemical Engineering
Susan Montgomery was one of three inaugural collegiate lecturers selected from across the Ann Arbor campus

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01/17/2012 College of Engineering
Nick Kotov has been named the Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Engineering. Nick and members of his research group are working on the biocompatible plasmonic nanoparticles that are designed for early diagnostic and treatment cancer.

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12/05/2011 Chemical Engineering
Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani selected as one of the three winners of the 2011 Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research in the College of Engineering.

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11/08/2011 Chemical Engineering
The teaching approach for ChE 460 that simulates an industrial production line was established by Professors G.G. Brown and Rane Curl decades ago. Today Henry Wang, Pablo Lavalle, and Don Trombley continue to develop the laboratory experience to provide 460 students with the experience they need for their future careers.

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11/07/2011 U-M News Service
Ronald Larson, George Granger Brown Professor of Chemical Engineering, received two grants from The Dow Chemical Company as part of Dow's new initiative to help develop a 21st-century work force and address 21st-century challenges at several top US universities.

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10/29/2011 Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering students have been increasingly active in socially conscious team projects, using their technical and team skills to develop devices that can have an impact in underserved communities throughout the world.

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09/13/2011 Chemical Engineering
Jennifer Linderman's research group, in collaboration with the labs of Denise Kirschner (Michigan), Steve Kunkel (Michigan) and JoAnne Flynn (Pittsburgh) have been studying how the immune system responds to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. The researchers design both experiments and computer simulations to investigate how molecular diffusion and kinetics control granuloma formation and function.

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09/13/2011 Chemical Engineering
Implanted medical devices are mainstays of modern medical treatment. Despite their live-saving benefits, each device runs the risk of becoming a site of bacterial infection. Doctoral students Elizabeth Stewart, Leo Pavlovsky, and Mahesh Ganesan, from Professor Michael Solomon's research group are collaborating with Professor John Younger from the U-M Medical School to better understand how these infections occur.

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09/06/2011 American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Suljo Linic has been awarded the NSEF (Nano Science and Engineering Forum) Young Investigator Award from AIChE for his contributions in energy conversion through the development of energy efficient and environmentally friendly nanomaterials for catalysis and photocatalysis.

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Student News

Trung Dac Nguyen (Glotzer Lab) was awarded the VEFFA Scientific Award, the most prestigious award given by his fellowship program, the Vietnam Education Foundation.  Trung received his PhD in December 2011.

2011 College of Engineering Graduate Symposium Award winners:  Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani (Linderman Lab) was selected as one of the three winners of the 2011 Award for Outstanding PhD Research. Nick Cilfone (Linderman Lab) took 2nd place in the poster session on "Engineering in Biological Systems."

Peter Valdez and Nick Garza (Savage Lab) won 1st place in the poster competition at the 3rd Annual Michigan Green Chemistry Conference. 

Chad Huelsman (Savage Lab) was recently awarded an EPA STAR graduate fellowship.The EPA STAR program supports master's and doctoral candidates in environmental studies.

2011 National Science Foundation Fellows from the department: Youngri Kim (Solomon Lab), Brittany Lancaster (Linic Lab), and Jake Dickinson (Savage Lab)