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Noah Phillips Wamble “has been selected to receive the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award in response to the SCGSR 2023 Solicitation 2.

“The award is for the proposed SCGSR research project, ‘Operando and in situ synchrotron x-ray scattering and spectroscopy to fundamentally understand the formation mechanism of tetrablock isoporous membranes’, to be conducted at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).”

“The selection of Noah Phillips Wamble for the SCGSR award is in recognition of outstanding academic accomplishments and the merit of the SCGSR research proposal, and reflects Noah Phillips Wamble’s potential to advance the Ph.D. studies and make important contributions to the mission of the DOE Office of Science.”

Alumnus Hee Jeung Oh has been elected to The North American Membrane Society Board of Directors.

The NAMS “mission is to serve the synthetic membrane community by fostering the development and dissemination of knowledge in membrane science and technology, and by promoting the collaborative efforts of researchers, technologists and end-users.”

Antoine Chamoun-Farah Wins First Place in the UT Energy Week Poster Session with his poster entitled, “Amine Functionalized Supported Ionic Liquid Membranes (SILMs) for CO2/N2 Separation”.

“UT Energy Week connects students, researchers, faculty, energy professionals, and industry leaders across disciplines and sectors to build community, support energy literacy and education, facilitate strategic partnerships, and advance research.”

Antoine Chamoun-Farah wins second place in the Graduate Oral Competition at this year’s Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) National Convention.

Benny D. Freeman will be presented with the AIChE Division Award for Excellence in Materials Engineering and Science at the 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting in November.

This award is Administered by the Materials Engineering & Sciences Division (MESD).

The 13th International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes (ICOM) meeting was held in Chiba, Japan, near Tokyo, July 9-14, 2023. ICOM is held every 3 years and represents one of the key meetings in the membranes field.

Nico Marioni won both poster and oral presentation awards for his work on “Impact of Ion-Ion Correlated Motion on Salt Transport in Ion Exchange Membranes”.

Everett Zofchak won an oral presentation award for his work on “Mixed Ion Partitioning into Crosslinked PEGDA Membranes”.