News and Highlights
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"Best Paper" Recognition Goes to Grad Student Biswajit Sarkar
A research article published in the International Journal of Mineral Processing with the first author, Mr. Biswajit Sarkar, has been recognized by the Indian Institute of Mineral Engineers (IIME) as the "Best Paper Published on Beneficiation." The article, "Study of Separation Features in Floatex Density Separator for Cleaning Fine Coal," is co-authored by A. Das and S.P. Mehrotra and was published in 2008. Sarkar is currently a CBE graduate student working towards his PhD under the direction of Dr. Paschalis Alexandridis.
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Professor Esther Takeuchi Named Recipient of National Medal of Technology, Most Coveted Technology Award in U.S.
President Barack Obama announced that Dr. Esther S. Takeuchi has been awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor awarded in the U.S. for technological achievement. Dr. Takeuchi is the first UB professor to receive this honor. She will receive her medal at a White House ceremony to be held October 7.
Takeuchi is often cited as the woman awarded the most patents in the U.S. -- more than 140 at last count, most of them related to her pioneering development of sophisticated power sources for implantable devices, now a booming multibillion-dollar business.
For more information, please go to: http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/2009_09_16/takeuchi_medal
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Alexandridis Named UB Distinguished Professor
Dr. Paschalis Alexandridis has been named UB Distinguished Professor. The title UB Distinguished Professor is a rank above that of full professor and was created by the Office of the Provost to recognize full professors who have achieved true distinction and who are leaders in their field.
Alexandridis' research includes self-assembly and directed assembly of polymers, supramolecules and nanoparticles. Some of his awards include the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Award, The SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the UB Exceptional Scholar Award for Sustained Achievement, among others. Alexandridis joined the CBE Department at UB in 1997.
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Student Chapter of AIChE Among March Madness Winners
March Madness, a membership contest, was initiated by the national chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers to encourage a final round of new student outreach before the end of the academic year. The challenge was set forth for each school to achieve at least 50% national AIChE enrollment (the percentage is calculated by taking the total number of chemical engineers on record for each school and comparing it with the membership numbers at the end of the contest). With a lot of hard work from the Student Chapter leaders, UB was among the 59 March Madness winners! A special note of thanks went to Student Chapter President Jacob Weiner and Faculty Advisor Marina Tsianou.
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Andreadis Receives UB's Exceptional Scholar: Sustained Achievement Award, 2009
Dr. Stelios Andreadis has been selected to receive UB's Exceptional Scholar: Sustained Achievement Award for 2009. This award was established in 2001 to recognize tenured faculty whose body of work over a number of years has garnered professional or public accolades beyond the norm for the discipline.
Stelios received the award at the UB Exceptional Scholar and Teaching Innovation Awards Reception held in the Kaveeshwar Gallery in Capen Hall on May 18, 2009. -
CBE Graduate Student, Indrajeet Singh, Receives Perkin Scholarship
Each year, the Society of Chemical Industry America International Group gives a $5,000 Perkin Scholarship to a student from a university selected by the Perkin Award winner of that year. Dr. Ian Shankland has been chosen as the Perkin Medal winner for 2008, and has chosen the University at Buffalo as the university and the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering to be the department that the student is chosen from. The Perkin Medal Scholarship program has been established to recognize and reward outstanding performance and potential in the advanced study of applied chemistry or related sciences, and to broaden awareness of the Perkin Medal and contributions to society that this prestigious award represents. The student selected as the recipient of the 2008 Perkin Scholarship is Indrajeet Singh.
Mr. Singh is working towards his PhD under the direction of Dr. Sriram Neelamegham. His PhD dissertation utilizes the knowledge of chemistry, biology and physics to add his own contribution to the advancement of science and technology. Singh has studied the effect of fluid or hydrodynamic forces on protein structure and function. During the course of these investigations, he has developed novel spectroscopy tools to determine the role of fluid flow in regulating protein structure and self-association/aggregation properties. Many of the studies are performed with a large polymeric protein isolated from human blood called Von Willebrand Factor (VWF). The study is important since it is established that the level and activity of VWF is associated with many vascular diseases including acute coronary syndromes. VWF also plays a key role during thrombosis that is associated with myocardial infarction and stroke. Further, strategies to control the interaction of VWF with its receptor on blood platelets (integrin GpIba) are of interest in the biotech community since this is a druggable target. Upon completion of his degree, Singh wishes to continue to add his contribution to human health care and science by continuing his research in the area of drug development and disease modeling where he will focus on specific drug molecules and their target specificity. Indrajeet is proud to be the first in his entire family (including all his ancestors) to receive a PhD. His wife, Anuroop, is also a student at UB, pursuing a Masters degree in Economics.
Dr. Ian Shankland is currently the Director of Technology for Honeywell's Fluorine Products business, a part of Specialty Materials. Since joining Honeywell 27 years ago, Shankland has held a number of positions in research and development and business development. He currently is responsible for new product and applications development, manufacturing process development and scale-up within Honeywell's Fluorine Products business, and has led technology programs for successful commercialization of a number of environmentally-improved fluorocarbon products.
Left to Right: Michael E. Campbell, Chairman, SCI America International Group, Anuroop Singh, Indrajeet Singh, Dr. Ian Shankland, 2008 Perkin Medal Recipient at the Award Presentation in Philadelphia, PA.
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CBE Graduate Student, Lye Lock, Wins AIChE Poster Award
Lye Lock, a PhD student working under the direction of Dr. Manolis Tzanakakis, has won an award for a poster she presented on her work on the expansion and pancreatic differentiation of human embryonic stem cells in bioreactors
at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. This highly competitive award is presented to only three graduate students per year. -
Schultz, Kofke & Company Develop a Fine-Grained Approach to "Cool" Simulations
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Sol W. Weller - July 27, 1918-August 24, 2008
Retired Professor Sol W. Weller passed away on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at the Beechwood Continuing Care Facility in Getzville, NY. He was 90 years old.
Born in Detroit, Sol earned his PhD in chemistry from the University of Chicago. During World War II, he worked on the Manhattan Project.
Over the next two decades, he worked in chemical engineering, specializing in kinetics, coal liquefaction, the separation of gases by permeation, catalysts and standardization of catalyst-testing methods. He was responsible for several patents in his field.
In 1963, he became a professor of chemical engineering at UB, where he taught until 1988. While at UB, he held the C.C. Furnas Memorial Chair in Engineering in 1983. He also received two Fulbright Awards, the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1973, the Storch Award for coal research in 1981, Murphee Award for Industrial and Engineering Chemistry in 1982, and the Schoellkopf Medal in 1984.
Dr. Weller also taught and consulted in Madrid, Spain; Istanbul, Turkey; Oxford, England; and Haifa, Israel. He wrote many scientific papers, book chapters and encyclopedia entries during his career.
A talented amateur pianist, Dr. Weller and the former Miriam Damick, his wife of 62 years, hosted many musical events in their Williamsville home. Mrs. Weller passed away in 2006.
Dr. Weller is predeceased by a daughter and is survived by a daughter and two sons.
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Neelamegham & Group Apply Systems Biology and Glycomics to Study Human Inflammatory Diseases
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Stelios Andreadis Elected to College of Fellows of American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering
Stelios Andreadis, Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering, has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering (AIMBE) as a result of his significant contributions to the field of Chemical & Biological Engineering. Stelios' areas of research include gene therapy, tissue engineering of skin and blood vessels, controlled protein and gene delivery.
Located in Washington, DC, AIMBE is the leading advocacy group for medical and biological engineering and is comprised of some of the most important leaders in science and engineering. Founded in 1991, AIMBE has earned a reputation as a prestigious public policy leader on issues impacting the medical and biological community. AIMBE is regarded by key legislators as the preeminent voice on the subject. Through the College of Fellows, the Academic Council, the Council of Societies and the Industry Council, AIMBE represents roughly 50,000 influential leaders.
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Mark Swihart Invited to Participate in National Conference of "Rising Star Engineers"
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Takeuchi Wins ACS Astellas Award
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Esther Takeuchi Named Greatbatch Professor
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Koffas Receives SBIR Grant to Pursue Research in Industrial Microbiology
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Andreadis Research Shows Engineered Blood Vessels Function Like Native Tissue
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Carl Lund Named SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor
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Alexandridis' Work With Nanoparticles May Lead to "On-the-Spot" Virus Detector
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Paschalis Alexandridis Receives SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
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Annual Campus Security Report
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