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Professor Kim Awarded Hanwha Non-Tenured Faculty Award
Congratulations to Professor Dohyung Kim on being awarded the Hanwha Non-Tenured Faculty Award, for his contributions to the field of electrocatalysis!
To demonstrate the Hanwha Group’s commitments to promote cutting-edge research and innovation in Materials Chemistry & Processing, the award will support the career development of non-tenured young faculty.
This award, now in its eighth year, is a program by the three petrochemical companies of the Hanwha Group to discover and support Korean scientists with less than seven years of experience working in North America and Europe.

Congratulations to FullFlock on Placing 3rd at the Draper Competition!
Congratulations to Vasundhara Macherla and her team, FullFlock, on placing 3rd at the Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs!
“The annual Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs is designed to hone the skills that undergraduate women need to advance from idea to venture creation. Through multiple rounds of competition, students demonstrate an understanding of a problem, why the problem requires a new venture to address it, and how their idea presents the best solution to the problem.”
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Professor Lee Receives Outstanding Achievement Award in Nanoscience from American Chemical Society
Professor Daeyeon Lee has received the 2022 Outstanding Achievement Award in Nanoscience from the American Chemical Society (ACS).
The annual award recognizes exceptional achievements in nanoscience research and notable leadership in the area of colloidal nanoparticles and application. Professor Lee was chosen from a large group of extraordinary nominees among the invited speakers, “for pioneering research in development of factory-on-a-chip and its application for large scale nanoparticle synthesis and functionalization.”
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César de la Fuente Named AIMBE Fellow
César de la Fuente, Presidential Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Microbiology, Bioengineering and in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been named an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow. The only faculty member inducted this year from the University of Pennsylvania, de la Fuente is one of the youngest members ever to have been selected as an AIMBE Fellow.
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Professor Stebe selected as the 2023 William R. Schowalter Lecturer
Congratulations to Professor Stebe, who was selected as the 2023 William R. Schowalter Lecturer!
The lecture is scheduled to take place during the AIChE Annual Meeting on Wednesday, November 8, 2023 in Orlando, FL. The committee was impressed with her extensive technical contributions to the field of fluid mechanics and the equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics of interfaces.

Professor Lee selected as the 2022 recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award in Nanoscience
Congratulations to Professor Lee, who was selected as the 2022 recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award in Nanoscience!
This award recognizes exceptional achievements in nanoscience research and notable leadership in the area of colloidal nanoparticles and applications.

Congratulations, Jed-Joan Edziah!
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