News & Notices
We are please to announce the inauguration of the Nobe Lecture series in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Our first lecture will be given by Gregory Stephanopoulos, Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The lecture will be held on May 23, 2008 at 1:30PM in the CNSI Lecture Hall. (Announcement)
Prof. Yoram Cohen received the Rosenfield Distinguished Community Partnership Prize (February2008). The prize program is designed to publicly recognize ongoing or one-time collaborations between UCLA faculty, or staff and community residents or non-profit organizations that have already enhanced the quality of life in Southern California . Prof. Cohen is recognized for his efforts in helping the Los Angeles Community deal with environmental issues and challenges.
Assistant Professor Tatiana Segura was awarded the 2008 National Science Foundation CAREER Award for the engineering of hydrogels scaffolds for matrix-tethered gene delivery.
Professor Liao is named Chancellor's Professor (2008)
Professor Liao and coworkers develop new method for the production of more efficient biofuels (UCLA News Release, Nature Article)
Professor Tang was awarded the 2006 Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE). Established in 1996, PECASE represents the highest honor that any young scientist or engineer can receive in the United States.
Professor Tang was awarded the 2007 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering.
We are pleased to announce that chemical engineering alumni Antonios Armaou (PhD, 2001) and Nael El-Farra (PhD 2004) have received NSF CAREER awards in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Both were advised by Professor Panagiotis D. Christofides.
Professors Christofides, Davis and co-workers publish a paper entitled "Smart Plant Operations: Vision, Progress and Challenges'' which appears in the "Perspective'' column and the cover of the November 2007 issue of AIChE Journal.
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