faculty news Mark Prausnitz Received a grant for almost $1 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue his lab’s development of a microneedle patch for measles and rubella vaccination that will be studied in a human clinical trial in West Africa. Martha Grover General Chair for AbSciCon 2021 (May 9-14, 2021 in Atlanta), which is the biannual NASA conference on astrobiology. She also won the 2019 Faculty Mentor of the Year award for the Sloan Minority PhD Program. Krista Walton Appointed as the College of Engineering’s new Associate Dean for Research.
J. Carson Meredith Selected as executive director of Georgia Tech’s Renewable Bioproducts Institute. Joseph Scott Co-author of a paper that was recognized as Best Paper in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 2017-2019.
Yuhang Hu Winner of the 2019 Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young Investigator Award.
Ryan Lively Named an editor of the leading Journal of Membrane Science, effective 2020.
Johnny Blazeck One of ten researchers at U.S. colleges and universities selected to receive a Beckman Young Investigator Award in 2020.
Andrew J. Medford Won a 35 Under 35 Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Chris Jones Named inaugural editor-in-chief for the fully open access journal JACS Au.
Carsten Sievers, Fani Boukouvala, Sankar Nair, and Chris Jones Received a four-year, $2 million grant (effective October 1, 2020) from the National Science Foundation to help tackle the problem of accumulating plastic waste in landfills and the environment. David Sholl Member of the National Academies Study Committee for Chemical Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century. Ajit Yoganathan
Blair Brettmann Selected to be one of the 2020 Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Young Investigators for the upcoming American Chemical Society National Meeting.
Retired from his joint appointments in ChBE and the Department of Biomedical Engineering in June 2020. He is renowned for his work with cardiovascular technologies.
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