Category: Awards

Six MolES Faculty Named to State Academy of Sciences

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Six distinguished faculty members from the Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute, including its director, Patrick Stayton, were named to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. This group includes:

  • Charles Campbell (Chemistry)
  • David Castner (Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering)
  • Samson Jenekhe (Chemical Engineering)
  • Patrick Stayton (Bioengineering)
  • Minoru Taya (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Paul Yager (Bioengineering)

Membership in the Washington State Academy of Sciences is by invitation and members are selected from academic research, government, and industry, and represent a broad range of scientific, technical, and engineering fields. Read More

Buddy Ratner Wins the 2012 George Winter Award from the European Society for Biomaterials

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Buddy Ratner recognized for contributions to field of biomaterials

The European Society for Biomaterials has chosen Buddy Ratner, a UW professor of bioengineering and chemical engineering, for the 2012 George Winter Award, recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of biomaterials. The committee cited Ratner's excellence in research, his vision and his leading role in the promotion of biomaterials science worldwide. He will be honored at next year's society conference in Madrid, where he will present the award lecture.

 

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Bill Atkins Named Inaugural Sid Nelson Endowed Professor

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In a fitting tribute to our late colleague, mentor and friend, the School of Pharmacy is humbled to share that we have formally established the Sid Nelson Endowed Professorship in Drug Metabolism. The seeds for the professorship were sown in December 2011, after our much-loved professor of medicinal chemistry and dean emeritus passed away suddenly. Our community rallied together to honor Sid's life and contributions to the School by creating the Sid Nelson Memorial Fund. The memorial fund later became the Endowed Nelson Professorship "” a fund that we hope to eventually turn into a more substantial endowed fund in honor of Sid. Read More

Pozzo Receives DOE Early Career, Undergraduate Research Mentor Awards

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Congratulations to MolES faculty member and Chemical Engineering professor Lilo Pozzo, who recently received the following three awards for her accomplishments in the areas of research, mentoring, and commercialization:

DOE Early Career Award, selected for the project “Neutron Scattering Investigation of the Relationship between Molecular Structure, Morphology and  Dynamics in Conjugated Polymers.”

Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, nominated by student presenters and selected by a committee of faculty and staff at the Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Grand Prize in the Environmental Innovation Challenge, as advisor of the interdisciplinary team “PolyDrop,” which developed additives that transform regular coatings into conductive coatings for use in carbon fiber composites in transportation industries. Read More

Mary Lidstrom elected to the National Academy of Sciences

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The University of Washington's Mary Lidstrom and David Kaplan are among the 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 14 countries just announced by National Academy of Sciences. Members are named for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, according to the academy.

 Mary Lindstrom thumbnailLidstrom is vice provost for research and a professor of chemical engineering and microbiology. Her research focuses on developing environmentally friendly and economically viable alternatives to chemical fuels. Lidstrom was elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences in 2011. Read More

Jim Pfaendtner Wins Distinguished Teaching Award

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The University of Washington has announced this year's Awards of Excellence recipients, recognizing achievements in teaching, mentoring, public service and staff support.

The winners will be honored 3:30-4:30 p.m., June 13, at a ceremony in Meany Hall for the campus and general public.

Being awarded for the first time this year is the Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award in recognition of community service and civic engagement by a UW alum who is a veteran. The first recipient is Rear Adm. Herbert Bridge, U.S. Read More

Kannan M. Krishnan named 2013 IEEE Fellow

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 Kannan M. Krishnan has been named a 2013 fellow of IEEE for contributions to nano-magnetic technology in medicine. IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments and the total number selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting Institute membership.
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Kim Woodrow named on Newsweek/The Daily Beast’s 125 Women of Impact List

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UW Bioengineering assistant professor Dr. Kim Woodrow’s was named on this list, compiled by Newsweek/The Daily Beast to accompany this week’s Women in the World Summit. Dr. Woodrow was cited for her work creating dissolvable female condoms that prevent pregnancy and protect against HIV, for which she received $1 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Read More

James Carothers named Sloan Research Fellow

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MolES Institute member and Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering James Carothers was named a 2013 Sloan Research Fellow in an announcement today by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Carothers’s research focuses on developing design platforms for engineering functionally-complex RNA-based control systems. These systems process cellular information and program the expression of very large numbers of genes, enabling both increased understanding of fundamental biological processes and applications to meet the demands for renewable chemicals and new therapies.

Three members of the UW faculty are among 126 recipients of 2013 Sloan Research Fellowships.  Read More

Castner and Gao Inducted as AIMBE Fellows

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UW Bioengineering faculty Drs. David Castner and Xiaohu Gao wereinducted as AIMBE Fellows at the organization’s annual meeting February 17-19 in Washington, DC. AIMBE, or the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering,is a non-profitadvocacy organization dedicated toimproving lives through medical and biological engineering. Drs. Castner and Gao join a distinguished group of more tahn 1,000 other fellows from academia,industry and government who have made significant contributions to bioengineering research, industrial practice, and education.

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