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Dibakar Bhattacharyya to Receive 2020 AIChE Separations Division Founders Award
Bhattacharyya recently received a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant from the NSF to develop a mask that will deactivate COVID-19 on contact.
Escobar, Alumnus Wooldridge, Team Up to Confront COVID-19 With Antiviral Membrane, 3D-printed Face Masks
The masks are designed to inactivate the coronavirus.
Jeffrey Seay Receives UK Global Impact Award
This award recognizes Seay for his applied research work around the deployment of various sustainable energy technologies to empower communities in developing economies.
Escobar, Dong and Al-Jumaily Win Best Paper Award
The three authors have received a 2020 Best Paper Award from the journal Membranes.
James Obute Awarded Tau Beta Pi Fellowship
The fellowship will support Obute’s graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Max Dong Receives Outstanding Doctoral Student Award
His research as part of his dissertation was on the development of green methods of fabricating polymeric membranes, their antifouling properties and applications in wastewater treatment.
UK Offering Online Bourbon Production Course Open to Anyone
The University of Kentucky College of Engineering is offering EGR 380: Bourbon Production Engineering in an online format. The course is open to anyone and will run from May 12 – June 23.
DB, Collaborators, Receive NSF RAPID Grant for Antiviral Membrane Mask
DB will serve as the PI and engineering faculty members J. Todd Hastings and Thomas Dziubla, as well as Yinan Wei from the UK Department of Chemistry, will contribute as Co-PIs.
Isabel Escobar Paper Among Most Downloaded in Publication
The paper “Biomimetic and bioinspired membranes for water purification: A critical review and future directions” was among the top 10% of papers downloaded between January 2018 and December 2019.
2020 College of Engineering Tau Beta Pi and Department Awards
Despite the cancellation of the annual UK College of Engineering Awards Banquet sponsored by Tau Beta Pi, each department and Tau Beta Pi have named awardees.