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May 2013 Lei Zhang (UW, Ph.D 12) and coauthors publish a paper in Nature Biotechnology showing the unique ability of zwitterionic hydrogels to resist the foreign body reaction, highlighted by an article in Chemical and Engineering News, and by UW Today.
April 2013 Andy Sinclair has received a Department of Education GAANN Fellowship to work with UW ChemE seniors on a technology commercialization project.
Jan. 2013 Zhiqiang Cao (UW, Ph.D 11) is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Wayne State University.
Dec. 2012 Congratulations to Andrew Keefe for winning the best poster award at the NIPAM-80 Symposium in Maui!
Nov. 2012 Congratulations to Andrew White for winning the 2012 AIChE COMSEF Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the 2012 AIChE conference.
Oct. 2012 Congratulations to Andrew White and Kasia Nowinski for their performance at the UW Chemical Engineering Symposium. Andrew was awarded first place in the speaking category and Kasia was awarded first place in the poster category.
  Andrew White has been invited to give a seminar in the eScience Institute detailing how he uses cloud-based computational resources in his research. Read about the seminar.
Sept. 2012 Yongsheng Leng, a former postdoc in our group, received the NSF CAREER award this year. He was also promoted to associate professor of Engineering and Applied Science with tenure at George Washington University
Aug. 2012 Jie Zheng, a former Ph.D. student in our group, was promoted to associate professor of chemical engineering with tenure at the University of Akron.
June 2012 Andrew White wins Best Poster award at the International Congress on Marine Corrosion and Fouling 2012.
  Dr. Jiang is appointed as an UW Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow.
May 2012 Dr. Jiang is awarded the College of Engineering Community of Innovators award for research innovation.
Feb. 2012 Dr. Jiang is elected as Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineering.
Jan. 2012 Andrew Keefe published an article on protein protection in Nature Chemistry with an introduction article by Prof. DeSimone, which is featured by UW Chemical Engineering.
Dec. 2011 Dr. Chun-Jen Huang has received an appointment at the National Central University in Taiwan, congratuations!.
  Congratulations to Louisa Carr (UW, Ph.D 11), who is moving to New York to work with GE's R&D department.
Nov. 2011 Zhiqiang Cao (UW, Ph.D 11) is now a postdoc in Prof. Robert Langer's lab at MIT.
Jul. 2011 Dr. Jiang is elected to Member, Washington State Academy of Sciences.
Dec. 2010 Dr. Jiang is elected as Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
  Research from our group contributes to Semprus BioSciences $18M finance.
Oct. 2010 Dr. Jiang serves as a senior editor for Langmuir.
Sept. 2010 Several people have moved into a brand new lab and office space in Benjamin Hall. They can be reached at 206-616-5991.
Aug. 2010 Congratulations to Andrew D White who won a Victoria Buch poster award at the Gordon Research Water and Aqueous Conference.
Apr. 2010 Kasia Nowinski receives the prestigious NSF graduate fellowship.
Mar. 2010 Jie Zheng (UW, Ph.D. 95) has been awarded a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The CAREER Award is given to faculty members at the beginning of their academic careers and is one of NSFs most competitive awards. Jie did his Ph.D. work with us and is now an assistant professor at the University of Akron.
Sept. 2009 Andrew Keefe is awarded the National Institutes of Health T32 Training Grant in Nanotechnology and Physical Sciences in Cancer Research. The focus of this work is to integrate innovations in nanotechnology and the physical sciences to cancer diagnosis and treatment. This work is in collaboration with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with his Co-Mentor from, Dr. Oliver Press.
Aug. 2009 Congratulations to Jason Hower and Gang Cheng who have just started their academic careers in Chemical Engineering Departments at the South Dakota School of Mine and Technology and the University of Akron, respectively. Both of them did their Ph.D. work with us and graduated in May 2009. They are the eighth and ninth of our group members who are now in academics.
 
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