ChBE People in the News – 2006
Professor Huimin Zhao in
collaboration with other University of Illinois scientists has synthesized
the naturally occurring, Food and Drug Administration approved new antibiotic,
fosfomycin.
Xing Yi Woo received a Graduate Student
Poster Award at the 2006
AIChE Annual
Meeting from the AIChE Food, Pharmaceutical, and Bioengineering
Division for "Developing a Systematic
Design Approach to Tailor Crystal Size Distribution for Mixing-Sensitive
Crystallization Processes." The poster was co-authored with
Ph.D. advisors
Richard
D. Braatz and Reginald B. H. Tan. The meeting
was held in San Francisco from November 12-17.
(11/27/2006)
The fuel cell research of
Paul
Kenis was highlighted in
Chemical Technology published
by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Sahinidis graduate student Alex Smith received the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Poster Prize for best graduate student poster. The title of his poster was "Degree-of-freedom-based methods for phasing centrosymmetric structures from X-ray diffraction data". He was the recipient of a Hanratty Travel Award, enabling him to attend the 2006 Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association, July 22 to July 28 in Hawaii. (9/29/2006)
The fuel cell research of
Paul
Kenis was featured in a UIUC News Bureau article on 9/19/2006.
