ChBE People in the News
Two papers written by department faculty and former students and postdocs will
be recognized by
Journal
of Process Control Prize Paper Awards. Monetary prizes will be presented
to the authors at the IFAC Congress, July 2008 in Seoul, Korea.
The awards are for best survey paper and best theory paper published in the journal
from 2005 to 2008. Coauthors attending the ceremony will be Zoltan
Nagy who
went on to become a Senior Lecturer at the University of Loughborough and Rudiyanto
Gunawan who joined the National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor. The papers are
listed below:
M. Fujiwara, Z. K. Nagy, J. W. Chew, and R. D. Braatz. First-principles and direct design approaches for the control of pharmaceutical crystallization. J. of Process Control, 15, 493-504, 2005
R. D. Braatz, R. C. Alkire, E. G. Seebauer, E. Rusli, R. Gunawan, T. O. Drews, and Y. He. Perspectives on the design and control of multiscale systems. J. of Process Control, 16, 193-204, 2006
(3/23/2008)
Rich Masel, and partners
Mark
Shannon (Mechanical Engineering, ChBE affiliate), Keith Cadwallader (National Soybean Research Laboratory), and Anis Zribi (General Electric) received a $6.9 million eighteen month continuation of their DARPA project "MicroGC with Nanotube, Nanogate and MicroM8 Detectors". The object of the project is to create miniature gas chromatographs for pollutant analysis, medical diagnostics and other purposes.
(4/18/2008)
Paul Kenis, Mary Kraft, Richard Masel, Marina Miletic, Debe Williams and
Huimin Zhao all were awarded Excellence in Advising Awards from the College
of Engineering. Faculty and staff members are nominated by students and then the
Advisors List Selection Committee makes the final selection.
(3/31/2008)
Daniel Pack recently received a 2008 Xerox Award for Faculty Research in the
College of Engineering. The award recognizes accomplishments by assistant
or associate professors, and was received by 4 faculty this year. He was
cited for "outstanding
research contributions on controlled-release drug delivery and the design
of polymeric materials for human gene therapy", and for his extensive publication
record.
(3/13/2008)
Huimin Zhao was one of six faculty members recognized as University Scholars.
The program recognizes excellence while helping to identify and retain the
university's most talented teachers, scholars and researchers. He was chosen
for his contributions to the field of directed evolution and protein engineering
and also for his role in modernizing the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular
Engineering's biomolecular engineering courses and establishing a new biomolecular
engineering minor.
Paul Kenis is a member of the University
of Illinois' Institute of Genomic Biology interdisciplinary research team designing
chimeric polypeptides that are sensitive to redox conditions in cells. They
are working to develop genetically encoded redox sensitive biosensors that would
use Förster resonance energy
transfer (FRET). Their report is in the February issue of Experimental Biology
and Medicine.
We are delighted to announce that
Mary Kraft is the newest addition to our faculty. Her research interests are in the use of mass spectrometry to analyze and understand the structure and function of biological materials.
(7/20/2007)
The self-healing of plastics is the topic of an article published online in
Nature Materials. Faculty member
Jennifer
Lewis is one of authors working in
collaboration with other scientists across the University of Illinois.
Kenneth Schweizer's study of the liquid properties of polymer glasses was the subject of a University of Illinois News Bureau and a United Press article.
We are pleased to announce that
Nathan Price will
be joining our faculty in August 2007 and
Charles
Schroeder in December 2007. Nathan Price's research interests are in computational and systems biology and Charles Schroeder's research interests are in single molecule biology, biophysics and biomolecular engineering.
(4/19/2007)
Paul Kenis will be named a Helen Corley Petit
Scholar as of August 2007. This award recognizes extraordinary scholarship and
teaching by young faculty members within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
He has also been named a Beckman
Center for Advanced Study Fellow. CAS Fellows are untenured University of Illinois faculty members whose proposals
are selected in an annual competition. These appointments grant one semester
of teaching release time in order to pursue an individual scholarly or creative
project.
(3/23/2007)
Zheng (Richard) Ni, a former graduate student with
Richard
Masel was a finalist for the Lemelson-Illinois Student Prize, an award that recognizes outstanding student inventors. The start-up company Cbana Laboratories at the University's Research Park uses his patents and expertise to improve Homeland Security by inventing better detection methods for explosives and chemical weapons.
The UIUC News Bureau featured the research of Steve Granick, showing a controversial
theory about the behavior of water and hydrophobic surfaces to be correct.
