Prof. Rich Noble
Chemical & Biological Engineering Dept., University of Colorado
Topic: Design and Characterization of Novel Membrane Materials from Imidazolium-Based Room Temperature Ionic Liquids and Liquid Crystal Structures.
Sangil Kim
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, VPI & SU.
PhD Candidate Advisor: Eva Marand
Topic: High Permeability/High Diffusivity Mixed Matrix Membranes for Gas Separation.
Prof. Martin Yarmush
Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering, Harvard Medical School
Topic: Hepatic Tissue Engineering.
Brian Mather
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, VPI & SU.
PhD Candidate, Advisor: Garth Wilkes/Tim Long
Topic: Design and Performance of Hydrogen Bonding Nucleobase Functionalized Polymers.
William Ducker
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Melbourne, Australia.
Topic: Forces Acting on Small Particles: the Role of Hydrodynamics and Interfacial Structure.
Benjamin Vaughan
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, VPI & SU.
PhD Candidate, Advisor: Eva Marand
Topic: Polymer-aluminophosphate Composites for Gas Separations.
Kun Liu
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, VPI & SU.
PhD Candidate, Advisor: Erdogan Kiran
Topic: Viscosity of Polymer Solutions at High Pressures.
Prof. Ralph H. Colby
Materials Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University.
Topic: Protein Aggregation in Synovial Fluid.
Matt Wilding
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, VPI & SU.
PhD Candidate, Advisor: Don Baird
Topic: Melt Processing Thermally Unstable and High Molecular Weight Polymers with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide.
Prof. David Klinke
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University
Topic: Forging a 21st Century Vision of Drug Discovery: Applying Multi-scale Modeling to Understand and Manipulate Host Immunity.
Will James
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, VPI & SU.
PhD Candidate, Advisor: Eva Marand
Topic: Gas Transport in Membranes for Fuel Cell Applications.
Quang Nguyen
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, VPI & SU.
PhD Candidate, Advisor: Don Baird
Topic: Process for Increasing the Exfoliation and Dispersion of Nano-particles into Polymer Matrices Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide.
Beth Caba
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, VPI & SU.
PhD MACR Candidate, Advisor: Rick Davis
Topic: Charged, Water-Soluble Block Copolymers: Novel Micellization Phenomena and Steric Stabilization of Magnetite Nanoparticles.