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News

2012 News:

January

• Dr. Siva Vanapalli received an NSF CAREER Award for his proposal, "CAREER:Collective hydrodynamics of confined drops inmicrofluidic parking networks." The $400,000 grant is a five-year award.

2011 News:

November

• Dr. Brandon Weeks has been named the recipient of the Texas Tech University Chancellor's Council Distinguished Research Award for 2011.
• Dr. Siva A. Vanapalli and his group's work is featured on the cover of Lab on a Chip

October

• Dr. Micah Green has been awarded a 2011 Mortar Board Senior Honor Society/Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) Faculty Recognition Award. The Faculty Recognition Award is unique among those offered from Mortar Board/ODK in that it is based solely on student nominations. Green was chosen as one of five awardees based on a pool of over ninety applications from a wide range of departments across Texas Tech University.

2010 News:

August

• Dr. Weeks and co-workers on the cover of Crystal Research and Technology

July

• Updated faculty productivity.

March

• Updated faculty productivity.

2009 News:

November

• AIChE Confrence Poster

August

• Updated faculty productivity.
• Dr. Sindee Simon named New Horn Professor

June

• A new 2010 graduate advertisement is available.
• Professor McKenna receives the coveted Bingham Medal from the Society of Rheology. (PDF)

2007 News:

August

• A new 2007/2008 seminar brochure is available.
• A new NSF-CAREER award brochure is available.
• The productivity chart is updated.

March

• Kevin McBride, a junior in chemical engineering, receives the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
• Dr. Lenore Dai receives the NSF-CAREER Award.
• Dr. Brandon Weeks receives the NSF-CAREER Award.

2006 News:

November

• Dr. Rajesh Khare is Awarded the 3M Non-tenured Faculty Grant.

October

• Dr. Greg McKenna receives the 2007 Founders Award from the Society of Plastics Engineers Polymer Analysis Division.

July

• New 2006/2007 seminar brochure is available.
• New faculty position.

June

• A new graduate poster is available.
• The computer lab will be outfitted with new monitors and two new computers.

March

• Professors move to the Experimental Sciences Building
• Most Bioengineering faculty members and some members of polymer and materials group have relocated their research laboratories to the new $37 M Experimental Sciences Building in 2006.

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