Recent Graduate Award Recipients

UW Chemical Engineering graduate students attract many top awards from leading professional societies. Here is a list of some of the most recent.

Sirne Techane Wins AVS Best Student Presentation Award

Sirne Techane won the Applied Surface Science Division best student presentation award at the 2007 international AVS symposium for her work on the synthesis, functionalization and characterization of gold nanoparticles.

Apte Wins Second Place at AVS Student paper Competition

Julia Apte, a second-year doctoral student in Professor Dave Castner's research group, took Second Place in the Student Poster Competion at the National AVS Meeting in November 2006.

Wei 1st Runner-up Poster at Center for Nanotechnology/NATO Conference

ChemE doctoral student Joseph Wei won first runner-up and $200 with his poster, "Controlling pattern formation in polymer blend with dip-pen nanolithography templates." Joseph, co-advised by Professors David Ginger, chemistry, and René Overney, chemical engineering, competed against 37 others at the UW Center for Nanotechnology on October 16th in conjunction with a NATO conference.

Lee Wins 2006 AVS Graduate Research Award

Chi-Ying Lee won the 2006 American Vacuum Society (AVS) Graduate Research Award. This award was setup to recognize and encourage excellence in graduate studies in the sciences and technologies of interest to AVS. The award consists of a $1,000 cash award, a certificate, and reimbursed travel support to attend the International Symposium. Approximately ten awards are given annually." Earlier this year, she won 2 student contests for her research on characterizing the surface structure and hybridization activity of DNA monolayers.  At the fall AVS meeting she won the ASSD award for the best student presentation (she gave an oral presentation).  The week before that, she won the best student poster competition at the Surfaces in Biomaterials symposium.

Taylor and Techane Win 2006 Intel Fellowships

Graduate students Allen Taylor (advised by Prof. Jiang) and Sirnegeda 
Techane (advised by Prof. Castner) won Intel Fellowships for 2006.  
The Intel Fellowship provides two year's tuition and $20,000 stipend 
per year.  Each recipient will be matched with an Intel mentor and 
have the option of an internship at Intel following the fellowship 
award.  An Intel® microprocessor-based personal computer system will 
be offered to each fellowship recipient as a gift from Intel 
Corporation.

Wilson and Huff Win SEBA Student Technology Showcase.

Jamie Wilson and Shawn Huff, graduate students in Dan Schwartz's  research group, won first place at the SEBA (Science & Engineering Business Association) Student Technology Showcase.   For their presentation on fuel cells, “Non-linear electrochemical impedance  spectroscopy,” they received $500 from Arch Ventures.  The competition held January 26, 2006, was one of the events leading up to the CIE (Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship) Business Plan Competition.