Students Win Awards and Honors
Mike Uchymiak has been awarded the 2007-2008 Channabasappa Memorial Scholarship from the International Desalination Association in support of his research on real-time mineral scale monitoring and feed-flow reversal operation of membrane desalination.
Hsiao-yu (Nancy) Lin was awarded the NWRI-Southern California Salinity Coalition Fellowship for her work on the development of fouling resistant RO membranes
Ph.D. Candidate Eric Lyster is an invited speaker at the First Annual NWRI Graduate Fellowship Research Conference, to be held April 12, 2007, at the Doubletree Hotel Anaheim/Orange County in the City of Orange, California. He will present on "Concentration Polarization and Mineral Scaling in Membrane Desalination".
Anshuman A. Lall and Weizhi Rong won the 5th prize at the Ultrafine Particle Graduate Student Research Competition at Air quality Management District (AQMD) Ultrafine Particles conference held at Wilshire Grand Hotel, Los Angeles during April 30-May 02, 2006.
Robin Woo has received the Intel Ph.D. fellowship from 2005-2006 and 2006-2007.
Suzanne Ma won the Oustanding Master's of Science Award for graduation June 2006.
Michael Kahn won the UCLA Materials Creation Training Program - (an IGERT Fellowship) - academic years 2006 - 2007 and 2007 - 2008.
Marcella Yu won the NIH Biotechnology Traineeship Award, 2005-2007. Yu is in Dr. Monbouquette's lab.
Congratulations to Michal Uchymiak and Eric Lyster for winning a First Place Student Poster Award for his work on "Ex-Situ Scale Observation Detector (EXSOD) for Early Detection of Mineral Scale Formation and Surface Crystallization Kinetics on RO Membranes" which was presented at the CA-NV AWWA Annual Fall Conference, October 2-5, 2006, Lon Beach, CA.
UCLA Ph.D. student Eric Lyster was awarded the 2006 National Water Research Institute/Cargill Ph.D. Research Fellowship.
UCLA Ph.D. student Arun Subramani received an Outstanding Paper Award at the 2005 North American Membrane Society Annual Meeting held in Providence, Rhode Island for his oral presentation titled, 'Application of Direct Observation of Biofouling (DOB) Technique to Quantify Initial Adhesion of Microorganisms on NF/RO Membranes.' Arun is currently working with Assistant Professor Eric M.V. Hoek (Civil and Environmental Engineering).
UCLA Ph.D. student Eric Lyster received Outstanding Paper Award at the 2005 North American Membrane Society Annual Meeting (held in Providence, Rhode Island) for his oral presentation of his work on "Numerical Model of Concentration Polarization: Considerations of Membrane Channel Geometry and Spacer Configurations." Eric is a Ph.D. student working with Prof. Yoram Cohen.