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Faculty News
- Prof. Antonios G. Mikos received the 2007 Alpha Chi Sigma Award
from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) for
his outstanding career accomplishments in fundamental and applied
chemical engineering research. More...
- "Biofuels offer no panacea for projected energy shortfall,"
Kyriacos
Zygourakis told an international gathering of energy analysts
at the 2007 World Oil Conference Oct. 19 in Houston.
Read
the story...
- Smithsonian magazine has named Rice University chemical engineer
Michael Wong to
its list of "America's Young Innovators
in the Arts and Sciences: 37 Under 36," More...
- Walter Chapman has been honored as coauthor
of the sixth-most-often-cited article over the past 30 years
by the journal Industrial & Engineering
Chemistry Research. The journal created the honor as part
of its 100-year-anniversary celebration. Read
the story...
- Laura
Segatori joined our Department on July 1, 2007
as the T.N. Law Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering. She received her Laurea from
the University of Bologna and her PhD from the University
of Texas at Austin in 2005. Her research interests include
biotechnology and protein engineering, protein folding and
neurodegenerative diseases. Prof. Segatori's profile...
- Ramon Gonzalez and
his postdoctoral research associate Syed Shams Yazdani have identified
the metabolic processes and conditions that allow a known strain
of E. coli to convert glycerin into ethanol, a breakthrough
that could end biodiesel's glycerin glut. Read the story...
Faculty Profiles
Graduate Student News
- 2007-2008 Kobayashi Fellowship: Michail Stamatakis and Amir
Amini have received the 2007-08 Riki Kobayashi Graduate
Research Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded annually to
the graduate student(s) who present and successfully defend
the the best PhD thesis proposal. The fellowship honors Prof.
Riki Kobayashi, a longtime faculty
member of Rice's Department of Chemical Engineering and
internationally recognized for his research on developing
novel techniques for measuring thermodynamic and transport
properties over a wide range of temperatures and pressures.
Undergraduate Student News
Events
- The Leland Lectures
Prof. Carol K. Hall of North Carolina
State University presented the 2007 T. W. Leland Jr. Lecture
on March 29, 2007. The title of her talk was "Thermodynamic
and Kinetic Origins of Alzheimer's and Related Diseases:
A Chemical Engineer's Perspective." A reception and
dinner in the Faculty Club followed the lecture.
- Click
here to read more about Dr. Hall and her
research and to see photographs from the events.
New Grants:
Prof. Lisa Biswal, " Building Responsive and Structured Assemblies
Using Magnetic Colloids", Office of Naval Research.
Prof. Michael Wong, "Directed Assembly of Nanoparticles into
Composite Materials", National Science Foundation.
Prof. Michael Wong, "Equipment Supplement to NIRT:Tuning
the Electronic and Molecular Structures of Catalytic Active Sites
with Oxide Nanoligands", Leheigh University Source of funds:National
Science Foundation.
Prof. Walter Chapman, "Development of a Density Functional
Theory for Copolymer and Surfactant Interfacial Properties and
Microstructure", Petroleum Research Fund.
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