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Faculty News
from Georgia Tech's ChBE 2020 Magazine
by School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ajit Yoganathan
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.
