Congratulations to Chemical Engineering faculty who were recognized during the Trustees' Celebration of Faculty Achievement, which recognizes 2023 achievements:
Laila Abu-Lail was awarded an EMPowER Grant from the Women's Impact Network (WIN) to create more inclusive and empowering STEM courses.
Christina Bailey-Hytholt received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 35 under 35 Award, the Women's Edge Extraordinary Women Advancing Healthcare Award, and the Amnion Foundation Seed Grant.
Nikolaos Kazantzis was awarded funding from the Department of Energy, Advanced Manufacturing Office, to harvest energy from waste water by converting sewage sludge to natural gas. He also published two energy policy analysis papers/reports for the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research and the Energy Policy Research Group at University of Cambridge, two of the world's leading and most influential energy policy think-tanks.
Stephen Kmiotek received the Trustee's Award for Outstanding Academic Advising.
Susan Roberts was awarded funding from SaponiQx to create a robust plant suspension system for the production of vaccine adjuvants.
Elizabeth Stewart was awarded an NSF Engineering Research Initiation Award to engineer a biofilm infection-on-a-chip to elucidate the host-biofilm interface.
Andrew Teixeira earned tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor. He was awarded funding from WPI-Honeywell Clean Energy Center Phase I, the DOE BETO DE-FOA-0002636 to remove physical and chemical bottlenecks for hydrothermal waste-to-energy through intensified conditioning of blended high solid waste slurries, and ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable to overcome light penetration challenges in photochemical reactions through a micro-LED packed bed reactor.
Xiaowei Teng was recognized as the James Manning Endowed Chair. He was awarded funding from the NSF on selective extraction of lithium from seawater using structurally modified metal oxide layered materials. He published work "Enhanced Urea Oxidation Electrocatalytic Activity by Synergistic Cobalt and Nickel Mixed Oxides" in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters and "Chloride Insertion Enhances the Electrochemical Oxidation of Iron Hydroxide Double-Layer Hydroxide into Oxyhydroxide in Alkaline Iron Batteries" in Chemistry of Materials.
Michael Timko and Geoffrey Tompsett had two patents issued in 2023: "Water-Assisted Zeolite Upgrading Of Oils" and "Ethanol Derived Petrochemicals."
Eric Young was awarded funding from DARPA CERES, "IRISS." He was recognized for his leadership role in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Division 15 Executive Committee and for his published work "Systematic part transfer by extending a modular toolkit to diverse bacteria" in ACS Synthetic Biology.
A complete list of recognitions can be found here.
(L to R): Prof. Eric Young, Dean John McNeill, Prof. Steve Kmiotek, and Prof. Andrew Teixeira at the Trustees' Celebration of Faculty Achievement.