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Student News and AwardsStudent PresentationsThe following three Ph.D. students made presentations this year at various conferences. Kalliat Valsaraj serves as the research advisor for all three of them: Hongfei Lin made the following presentations this year: H.F. Lin and K.T. Valsaraj, “A Titania Optical Fiber Monolith Reactor for Photo-degradation of Organic Contaminants in Dilute Wastewaters,” Symposium on Advanced Materials for Purification of Water With Systems, Center of Advanced Materials for the Purification of Water with Systems, Atlanta, Georgia, April 13-15, 2005; and, H.F. Lin and K.T. Valsaraj, “Development of optical fiber monolith reactor for wastewater treatment,” Third International Congress on Ultraviolet Technologies, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, May 24-27, 2005. Suresh Raja made the following presentation recently: S. Raja and K.T. Valsaraj, “Heterogeneous oxidation of naphthalene vapors on the air-water interface of fog droplets,” Annual AWMA conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June (2005). Qing Zbong Yuan made the following presentations recently: Q.Z. Yuan and K.T. Valsaraj, “Transport and fate of contaminants in capped sediment systems,” Fourth SETAC World Congress/25th Annual Meeting in North America, Portland, Oregon, November (2004); and, Q.Z. Yuan and K.T. Valsaraj, “Transport and fate of contaminants in capped sediment systems,” Third International Battelle Conference on remediation of contaminated sediments, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 24-27 (2005). Annual Crab BoilThe department’s annual Crab Boil was held
on October 8, 2004. This event is coordinated by the graduate students
and invitees include the graduate students and their families as
well as department faculty and staff. As can be seen from these
photos, it appears all who attended had an enjoyable time despite
the dismal, rainy weather.
Student AwardsMatthew Balhoff, a Ph.D. student supervised by Karsten Thompson, received an ICES fellowship for postdoctoral studies at the University of Texas in Austin; ICES is the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. He will begin his post- doe this summer in Austin working with Mary Wheeler. Balhoff is also a recipient of an American Chemical Society award, Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Award. He received the award at an ACS symposium on Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research at the 2004 Fall ACS meeting held in Philadelphia. He was nominated by the macromolecular group at LSU. Jusfin Birdwell, a Ph.D. student supervised by Louis Thibodeaux, is a recipient of a 2004 Environmental Chemistry Graduate Student Award. This award is presented annually by the Environmental Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society to recognize graduate students who are working in areas related to environmental chemistry. Alan Bussard, a Ph.D. student supervised by Kerry Dooley, is the recipient of a Donald Clayton Fellowship awarded by the College of Engineering. The stipend amount for the Clayton Fellowship ranges from $10,000 to $20,000 annually and is funded by an endowment from Donald W. Clayton (B.S., Petroleum Engineering). It is awarded to outstanding graduate students who plan to pursue a career in academics. Bussard also won a best poster prize at the Southwest Regional Catalysis Society Symposium, which was held in Houston earlier this year. He received a cash prize of $200, funded by ExxonMobil. Zhanhu Guo, a Ph.D. student supervised by Elizabeth Podlaha, received a LSU Graduate School student travel grant to attend the 49th 2004 Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, where he presented his work, “Magnetic Behavior of Co-Cu and Co-Au Core-shell Nanoparticles.”
Alonso Lozano, a Ph.D. student supervised by Elizabeth Podlaha, was selected for one of the Sigma- Xi Grants in Aid awards by the LSU Chapter for his proposal, “Electrodeposited nanocomposites as thin films and high aspect ration microstructures for MEMS.” The objective of his proposal is “to investigate and characterize the effects of CeO2 nanoparticles on the electrodeposition of copper to explore Cu-CeO2 deposition as a potential micro-catalyst. The award was presented to Lozano at the Chapter’s annual spring banquet, held in the LSU Union on April 13, 2005.
Rohit Mishra, a Ph.D. student supervised by Elizabeth Podlaha, received a LSU Graduate School student travel grant to attend the Joint 206th Meeting of The Electrochemical Society (ECS) and the 2004 Fall Meeting of the Electrochemical Society of Japan in Honolulu, Hawaii. He presented his work, Electrodeposition of Rare Earth-Transition Metal Alloys from an Aqueous Electrolyte. Omkar Askok Namjoshi, a sophomore in chemical engineering, was one of 2004’s Gordon Cain Chancellor Scholarship recipients. These scholarships are given to the best of the incoming freshman class. Namjoshi, along with all other Chancellor’s Alumni Scholars awardees were honored at the 2004 Annual Scholars’ Banquet held in November of 2004. Craig Plaisance, a M.S. student supervised by Kerry Dooley, won best graduate student presentation at CAMD day held in April. Aimin Xu, a 2004 Ph.D. graduate, has been awarded the 2004 AIChE Baton Rouge Best Dissertation Award for his dissertation, “Chemical Production Complex Optimization, Pollution Reduction and Sustainable Development.” His major professor during his studies was Ralph Pike. Wenli Zhang, a Ph.D. student supervised by Karsten Thompson, was awarded second place for his research poster at the 5th Louisiana Conference on Advanced Materials and Emerging Technologies, which was held at Tulane University in late January. Students receiving annual departmental awards are as follows: Benjamin Caire - 2005 recipient of the American Institute of Chemists Award Matthew Kent Desmond - High GPA Sophomore award Beau Louis Monnot and Thomas Martin Miller (co-awardees) - High GPA Junior award Laura Elizabeth Stromer - High GPA Senior award 2004-05 Scholarship Recipients 0. Dewitt Duncan Scholarship Marathon Ashland Petroleum/Chemical Engineering Scholarship AIChE News2004-05 Officers President: Ryan Resweber
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The
LSU Student Chapter of AIChE spent most of the academic year preparing
for the AIChE 2005 Southern Regional Conference. Our student chapter
co-hosted the conference along with Tulane’s student chapter.
It was held in March in New Orleans. The student officers organized
most of the conference on their own, with a little help from faculty
adviser Karslen Thompson. Attendance was high and
mainly consisted of undergraduate
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