Two CBE graduate students have been awarded Honorific Fellowships by the Princeton University Graduate School for the 2013-14 academic year, which will provide full tuition and stipend for their fifth and final year of Ph.D. study. Talal Al-Housseiny, who is working with Professor Howard Stone, will receive a Wallace Memorial Fellowship in Engineering, while Mikhail Maksimov, who is working with Professor Jamie Link, will receive a Harold W. Dodds Fellowship. A total of 20-30 Honorif
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First-year Chemical and Biological Engineering Ph.D. students Granton Jindal and Michael Siedlik were recently each awarded a three-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in support of their research here at Princeton. Jindal is working with Professor Stanislav Shvartman on “Live Imaging and Computational Modeling of Heart Development”, while Siedlik is working with Professor Celeste Nelson on “Building a Designer Lung”. CBE alumnus Thom
Fourth-year Ph.D. student Eric First, representing a team including his advisor, Professor Christodoulos Floudas, and Postdoctoral Associate Faruque Hasan, took home Second Place (and $10,000 in flexible research funding) at Princeton’s 8th Annual Innovation Forum, held on March 12. Sponsored by the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, the purpose of the Innovation Forum is to showcase Princeton research that offers the potential to be commercialized. First&rs
At a lunch and ceremony on February 22, open to the entire School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Princeton Engineering Council (E-Council) and Graduate Engineering Council (GEC) jointly recognized a record-breaking FOUR members of the CBE department for their excellence in teaching during Fall 2012. Professor Yannis Kevrekidis was recognized for his teaching in the graduate-level course CBE 502, “Mathematical Methods of Engineering Analysis II”. Professor Pablo D
Research from the group of Christodoulos Floudas, Stephen C. Macaleer ’63 Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, has demonstrated a path to the U.S. production of synthetic fuels by the Fischer-Tropsch process at costs comparable to current crude oil prices, and with a net reduction in CO2 emissions of as much as 50%. The key is an optimally-distributed network of plants sited throughout the U.S., with the use of switchgrass (in conjunction with coal and natural gas) to achiev
Ruth Misener, a fifth-year CBE Ph.D. student working with Professor Christodoulos Floudas, has been awarded a 2012 Research Fellowship from the United Kingdom’s Royal Academy of Engineering. This postdoctoral fellowship will fund Ruth and her associated research costs for five years after her graduation from Princeton. Ruth will be based in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, developing a hybrid computational/experimental approach towards personal
Fourth-year CBE Ph.D. student Josephine Elia has been selected by the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment (ACEE) to receive the inaugural Maeder Graduate Fellowship in Energy and the Environment for the coming academic year, 2012-2013. Josephine is working with Professor Christodoulos Floudas on the computational discovery and operation of hybrid energy processes, whereby a broad range of raw resources (coal, biomass, and natural gas) can be converted to an optimal mix of
This semester will be doubly memorable for William Holloway *12: after successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis on April 24, he was notified yesterday that he has been selected as one of six recipients of a 2012 APGA Teaching Award from the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni. Holloway was recognized for his exceptional service as an Assistant in Instruction (AI) for CBE 246, “Thermodynamics”, taught by Professor Athanassios Panagiotopoulos in Spring 2011. The a
Fourth-year Chemical and Biological Engineering Ph.D. student Karthikeyan Rajendran has been named as one of three 2012 recipients of the Ray Grimm Memorial Prize. Rajendran, who is working with Professor Yannis Kevrekidis, was recognized with the $4,000 prize, “for his ingenious and innovative combination of modeling and scientific computing tools, from nonlinear dynamics, multiscale modeling, optimization and uncertainty quantification with ideas from graph theory towards the model
First-year Chemical and Biological Engineering Ph.D. student Anna Hailey was today awarded a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship in support of her research here at Princeton. Hailey is working with Professor Lynn Loo on “Controlling Crystallization in Solution-Processed Binary Blends for Organic Photovoltaics”. CBE alumnus Jeff Thompson ’10, currently a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, was also selected for
At a lunch and ceremony on February 21, open to the entire School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Princeton Engineering Council (E-Council) and Graduate Engineering Council (GEC) jointly recognized two members of the CBE department for their excellence in teaching during Spring/Fall 2011. Professor Sankaran Sundaresan received the sole Spring 2011 faculty award, for his teaching in the graduate-level course CBE 505, “Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer”. George Khoury
This Saturday, February 25, both a CBE alumna and a current CBE graduate student will be recognized by the University at Alumni Day with two of its top honors. Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will receive the Madison Medal, presented each year to an alumnus or alumna of the Graduate School who has had a distinguished career, advanced the cause of graduate education or achieved an outstanding record of public service. Jackson received her M.
