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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.
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  • 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...

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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.


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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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