Chemical Engineering Faculty News
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Prof. Jennifer Curtis has been selected to receive the 2008 ASEE Chemical Engineering Lectureship Award. This award is sponsored by Chemstations, Inc., and it is presented to a distinguished engineering educator to recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in an important field of fundamental chemical engineering theory or practice. This year's award was given to Professor Curtis in recognition of her sustained record of outstanding achievements in the fields of particle technology, multiphase flow and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and her contribution to course development and teaching materials for particle technology and CFD education. The award also recognizes her interest in the progression of chemical engineering through participation in professional and educational societies.
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Tim Anderson
Professor & Associate DeanProf. Tim Anderson has been awarded AIChE's most prestigious education award - the Warren K. Lewis Award. This award is given for scholarly contributions to engineering education research and innovation, dedication to career development of new engineering faculty, and stewardship of the Chemical Engineering Education journal. Professor Anderson formally received this honor at the Awards Ceremony at the 2007 Annual AIChE Meeting. |
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Prof. Oscar Crisalle has been inducted into the University of Florida's Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars. The Academy recognizes faculty who have excelled as teaching scholars throughout their careers and provide the very best educational experiences for undergraduate and graduate students at UF. Recipients of this honor are awarded lifetime Academy membership.
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Prof. Peng Jiang has been awarded the National Science Foundation's prestigious 2008 CAREER award for junior faculty. Prof. Jiang joined our department as an assistant professor in August 2006. He obtained his Ph.D. in materials chemistry at Rice University and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University. His current research interests include self-assembled photonic crystals, surface-plasmon-enabled nanooptical devices and biosensors, ultra-high-density magnetic recording media, semiconducting polymer devices, and biomimetic antireflection coatings for efficient photovoltaics and artificial nacres. Prof. Jiang has published more than 38 papers with over 1900 citations in prominent journals, such as Science, Nature Photonics, Physical Review Letters, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition. He has one issued patent and six pending applications. Prof. Jiang group's recent work on biomimetic broadband antireflection coatings has attracted great public interest and been featured in Nature, Laser Focus World, Materials Today, and many other public media.
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Prof. Tanmay Lele has received The American Heart Association's National Scientist Development Grant, which supports highly promising beginning scientists in their progress toward independent research careers. The four-year grant funds research projects that are broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease, stroke, or to related basic science, clinical, bioengineering/biotechnology, and public health problems.
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