Awards
- Shu-Wei Huang's research focuses on ultrafast optics, nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, and microscopy. His project is titled “Dual-comb Photoacoustic Microscopy with Super-resolution Wavefront Shaping.”
- Álvaro Romero-Calvo is sending research up, up and away with Blue Origin.The second-year aerospace PhD student at the ñ has won the 2021 Ken Souza Memorial Student Spaceflight Research Program, sponsored by the American
- Distinguished Professor Christopher Bowman of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at ñ has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions accorded to engineers.
- Professor Kristi Anseth will be the recipient of the prestigious Herman F. Mark Polymer Chemistry Award at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2021 meeting.
- Five ñ students have earned Brooke Owens Fellowships. The highly competitive program provides paid internships and mentoring to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration.Students
- Megan English, a graduate student in the Team Weimer Chemical and Biological Engineering research group, is the recipient of the Ryland Family Graduate Fellowship for the 2020-21 academic year.
- Brian Aguado, a postdoctoral researcher in the Anseth Research Group, is the recipient of this year’s Outstanding Postdoc Award, which recognizes postdoctoral associates and fellows at ñ for their research, communication and leadership accomplishments.
- Professor Christine Hrenya is the recipient of the AIChE 2020 Shell Thomas Baron Award in Fluid-Particle Systems, an award that recognizes a researcher who has made a significant impact in the fluid particle systems field or related subjects.
- Graduate students Kathryn Mains and Kyle Schlafmann have earned fellowships in the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program, a prestigious, national security-focused initiative.
- Associate Professor Michael Shirts is the recipient of the 2020 Computational Molecular Science & Engineering Forum Impact Award.