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Raphäel Clément wins The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation's 2024 Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.

Noah 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.

Professor Lynn Katz wins The University of Texas at Austin Civitatis Award. The Civitatis Award was established in 1997 to recognize outstanding faculty citizenship.

Aubrey Quigley wins the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Polymer Physics (DPOLY) Poster Competition for her poster entitled, "Mixed Salt Permeability in Crosslinked PEGDA Membranes" at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting 2024.

Dr. Rahul Sujanani was selected as a 2024 Future Leader by the Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) at the ACS Spring 2024 Meeting. This year also happens to be the 100th anniversary (“centennial year” as they are calling it) of the PMSE division.

Professor Nitash Balsara's talk will focus on the determination of cation transference number, the fraction of current carried by the cation in an electrolyte of uniform concentration relative to a reference velocity. Please join us March 1st, 2:30 – 3:30pm CST EER 3.646 or by Zoom: 828 685 7838, https://utexas.zoom.us/j/8286857838.

Dr. Joshua D. Moon is a recipient of the 2024 North American Membrane Society's (NAMS) Young Membrane Scientist Award. Josh, an M-WET alumnus, and former postdoctoral fellow with Professor Rachel Segalman's research group, is currently an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Florida.

On Friday, February 9th at 1pm CST / 11am PST, Professor Jovan Kamcev of the University of Michigan will be giving a talk on "Understanding and Overcoming the Conductivity/Selectivity Trade-Off in Charged Polymer Membranes." Professor Kamcev will be attending via Zoom. Please join us in CPE 2.222 or https://utexas.zoom.us/j/8286857838.

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.

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.