Professor and Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Benny Freeman was recently announced as CSIRO’s 2017 Sir Jerry Price Lecture presenter.
CSIRO’s 2017 Sir Jerry Price Lecture.
The lecture series was established in 1990 in an effort to encourage the collaboration between industry, CSIRO and university scientists. Its namesake, Sir Jerry Price, was the former CEO of CSIRO and a leading mind in organic chemistry. [Read more…] about Benny Freeman, CSIRO’s 2017 Sir Jerry Price Lecture Presenter
Jovan Kamcev has been awarded the 2016 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award in Separations: Membrane-Based Separations, established to recognize outstanding graduate student research in this area. He is pictured here with Profesor Benny D. Freeman.
Selection criteria for the award include: [Read more…] about Jovan Kamcev Wins 2016 AIChE Graduate Student Research Award
Jovan Kamcev has been awarded the Graduate Student Paper of the Year Award and the Marion Johnson South Texas Section Society of Plastics Engineers Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Chemical Engineering worth $4,000, for his paper entitled “Partitioning of mobile ions between ion exchange polymers and aqueous salt solutions: Importance of counter-ion condensation” published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics in January 2016.
Kamcev’s study addresses a longstanding problem in his field – the need for a theoretical framework to predict ion sorption and transport in charged membranes. [Read more…] about Jovan Kamcev Wins Graduate Student Paper of 2016
The McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering announced the top presenters for the 2016 Graduate Student Seminar Series, as voted by attending first-year and third-year Ph.D. students. [Read more…] about Michelle Dose is Runner-Up in Graduate Student Seminar Series Top Presenters
Professors Donald R. Paul and Benny D. Freeman’s former graduate student, Zachary P. Smith, joins the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Chemical Engineering faculty in 2016. See news item posted by The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Chemical Engineering.
The National Science Foundation’s Science and Technology Center for Layered Polymeric Systems (CLiPS) selected Jovan Kamcev to receive one of the Outstanding Graduate Student Awards for 2016. These awards are given to students who have made exceptional contributions to the Center in the areas of Research, Teaching and Mentoring, or Service to the Organization.
