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GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS
- Outstanding Teaching Assistants 2006-2007: Michail
Stamatakis, Fransisco Vargas and Sergio Iadevaia have
been recognized as Outstanding Teaching Assistants for 2006-07
in CHBE301/303, CHBE412 and CHBE 470 respectively. The outstanding
teaching assistants are selected every year by the undergraduate
students attending our core courses.
- The Spring 2007 Graduate Student Poster Contest winners
are Vivek Anand, Gaurav Bhatnagar and Jie Yu. The winners
of this award are chosen by the judges at the Annual Department
Poster Day.
- Vivek Anand won first place for his
poster titled "Transvere Relaxation in Sandstones
due to Internal Field Gradients".
- Gaurav Bhatnagar's poster, "Accumulation of
Gas Hydrates in Marine Sediments", put him at second place.
- Jie Yu was awarded the third place prize for her
poster "Synthesis of Near-Infrared-Absorbing Nanoparticle-Assembled
Capsules."
- Rajat Duggal is the winner of the 2006 Annual
Graduate Thesis Award in Science and Engineering for the Rice/TMC
Chapter of Sigma Xi. Rajat was presented this award at the
2006 Annual Awards and Member Induction Banquet on May 11, 2006.
- Gaurav Bhatnagar Received First Prize 2006 SPE Student Paper
Contest:
Gaurav Bhatnagar
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third year graduate student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
has taken first prize honors in the 2006 Society of Petroleum Engineers
(SPE) - Gulf Coast Regional Student Paper Contest. The paper, Scaling
of thermodynamic and transport properties for predicting methane hydrate
distribution in marine sediments, describes Bhatnagar's work on geologic
scale computer simulation to predict the accumulation and distribution
of methane hydrates in marine sediments below the seafloor. Methane hydrates
are a vast potential resource for natural gas. However, gas hydrates are
not usually present insufficient concentration or sediment permeable enough
to make recovery economical. Modeling the distribution of gas hydrates
aids in recognizing the conditions that may make energy production economical.
His research is supported by the Shell Center for Sustainability and the
Energy and Environmental Systems Institute at Rice University. He will
represent the Gulf Coast Region in the SPE International Student Paper
Competition in San Antonio in September. More
on this story...
- Vinit Murthy Earns Top Texas Nano Honors: The Nanotechnology
Foundation of Texas (NFT) has awarded Rice University doctoral
student Vinit Murthy its 2006 George Kozmetsky Award for Outstanding Graduate
Research in Nanotechnology. More
on this story...
- Shuqaing
Gao has won the Ellis K. Fields Memorial Student Award.
Also:
- Join us in congratulating all graduate CHBE students who won
awards during recent academic years!
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