Awards

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Graduate students working with faculty in the Center are recognized nationally and internationally for their research. Recent awards won by CCFE graduate students include:

Derek Berglund (Advisors: Tilton and Przybycein) received the 2003 Student Award given by the Polymer Group of the Pittsburgh Section of ACS.

Ray Dagastine (Advisors: Prieve and White) was awarded an NSF Postdoctoral International Research Fellowship for two years to work at the Particulate Fluids Processing Centre in Melbourne, Australia. Ray will head to Australia in August of 2002.

My Hang Truong (Advisor: Walker) took first place in the Student Poster competition at the Annual Society of Rheology meeting in Bethesda MD.  My Hang was also presented with a Symposium award for her presentation at the recent ChEGSA Symposium.

Brian Priore (Advisor: Walker) won the 2001 Student Award in Applied Polymer Science from the American Chemical Society PMSE division (C&E News article). 

Stephanie Butler Velegol (Advisor: Tilton) won the AAUW (American Association of University Women) Selected Professions Engineering Dissertation Fellowship in 2000.

Michael Bevan (Advisor: Prieve) won the 1999 Henkle Award for graduate research from the ACS Colloid Division.

Darrell Velegol (Advisors: Anderson & Garoff) won the 1998 Victor K. LaMer Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Colloid and Surface Chemistry.