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.
The fellowships are awarded to graduate students at U.S. universities and colleges who are conducting research that advances membrane technologies in the water, wastewater or water reuse industries.
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 106 new members and 18 international members, announced NAE President John L. Anderson today. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,420 and the number of international members to 319.
Associate Director Professor Rachel Segalman receives one of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE) most prestigious prizes, the Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering.
Associate Director Professor Rachel Segalman is the recipient of the 2021 Ernst Orlando Lawrence Award in Condensed Matter and Materials Science, the DOE’s highest scientific honor.
Benny Freeman, M-WET Director and Professor of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin wins the 2022 AIChE Separations Division Founder's Award.
M-WET student leader, Everett Zofchak, UT Austin Ph.D. Chemical Engineering student (co-advised by Director Benny Freeman and GAP 3 leader Professor Venkat Ganesan) won a NAMS poster award for his poster “Ion and Water Transport Mechanisms in PEGDA Membranes”.
Audra DeStefano, UCSB Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering co-advised by M-WET Associate Director Rachel Segalman and Professor Songi Han, won the Kramer Poster Prize at the Materials Research Outreach Program for her work “Local Water Dynamics Throughout the Corona of a Polymeric Micelle”.
Craig J. Hawker, Director of the California NanoSystems Institute and Director of the Dow Materials Institute - Materials and Chemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for achievements in polymer chemistry.
