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2012
ANNUAL
REPORT
On the cover:
Bill Lowrie
takes in
the progress being made at the new
Koffolt Labs construction site. Lowrie
and the rest of the Koffolt National
Campaign Committee toured the site
after their fall meeting.
Lowrie’s generosity and commitment to Ohio State’s chemical engineering program was recognized in
2009 by The Ohio State University
Board of Trusteees when it approved
the naming of the William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering. The
department will be housed in the
new Koffolt Laboratories building
scheduled for completion in 2014.
--Photo by Geoff Hulse
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Dear Alumni and Friends of the
Department:
On this mid-winter
morning we have been greeted
by the coldest day of the year,
yet construction continues
apace on our new building.
The concrete framework
for the research bar is almost
complete with the scaffolding
for the forms and rebar for the
roof of the building being laid down as I write.
I can also hear the clanging of the steelworkers as
they complete the steel framework for the office tower
section of the complex, an impressive six-story structure.
The progress is amazing, but the reality is that it will
be nearly two years before all the interior details are
completed and we can move in. This also gives us two
more years to complete our fund raising obligation of
$17.5M. Thanks to all who have contributed so far to
bring our total raised to over $15M. Hopefully others
will step up to help us reach our goal.
We continue to set records in the department in
a variety of categories. With the addition of Assistant
Professor Lisa Hall we are at an all-time high of 20
tenure-track faculty. Last year we had a record of 535
majors (sophomore-senior) and 127 B.S. graduates. At
the graduate level we have 88 students in residence with
21 students receiving their Ph.D. degrees this past year.
Our research expenditures were $7.3M with particular
successes achieved by L. S. Fan and Winston Ho which
are summarized elsewhere in this report.
Other newsworthy events include an unprecedented
sweep of Ohio State’s Innovator of the Year awards. L.
S. Fan won the Innovator of the Year category, Jessica
Winter won the Early Career Award and Qussai
Marashdeh, who works with Dr. Fan, won Student
Innovator of the Year Award. Umit Ozkan won the
Distinguished Researcher Award of the
ACS Energy and Fuels Division and was
honored at the Spring 2012 ACS meeting
with a 7-session symposium featuring 42
invited talks. Two AIChE awards were made
to Winston Ho and Bhavik Bakshi. Winston
won the 2012 Lawrence B. Evans Award for
Industrial Chemical Engineering Practice
sponsored by the CACHE Corporation and
Bhavik won the 2012 Research Excellence
in Sustainable Engineering Award from the
Sustainable Engineering Forum.
College-level recognition included
Umit Ozkan being named a College of
Engineering Distinguished Professor, Andre
Palmer winning the Harrison Award for
Excellence in Engineering Education and
Mike Paulaitis and Jim Lee winning Lumley
Research Awards. Overall, things are going
along with high intensity and great successes
in all of our scholarly endeavors. And, our
new building will help things enormously!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Best regards from all our faculty, staff
and students.
Graduate Program
23 Ranking
23 Faculty Productivity
23 Research Expenditures
24 Graduate Degrees Granted
25-26 Graduate Program Seminars
27 Graduate Student Awards
27 Graduate Student Fellowships
Stuart L. Cooper
Professor and Chair
[email protected]
614-247-8015
News
3-5 Koffolt Laboratories National Campaign Committee
6 Milt and Karen Hendricks ‘71 - Engineering a Rewarding Life
7-8 L.S. Fan, Jessica Winter, and Qussai Marashdeh
Named 2012 Innovators of the Year
9 Winston Ho Develops Game-Changing CO2
Capture Membranes
10-11 David Wood Develops Process for Purifying Biopharmaceuticals
Undergraduate Program
12 Cooperative Learning Experiences
13-16 2012 Placement Record for Undergraduates
17 Course Enrollment
18 Undergraduate Enrollment Graphs
19-20 Scholarship Information
Charitable Giving Summary
21 2012 Alumni Donor Listing by Class Year
22 Gifts from Friends of the Department
22 Corporate and Foundation Donors
Faculty
28-41 Faculty Achievements Summary
Koffolt Labs Campaign Committee members Mike Winfield, Ron Harris, Bill Lowrie and Stuart
Cooper on the new Koffolt Labs construction site. --Photo by Geoff Hulse.
Inside Back Cover: CBE Directory
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Alumnus Story
Koffolt Laboratories National
Campaign Committee
The Koffolt Laboratories National Campaign Committee
gathered October 5, 2012. Chairman Bill Lowrie opened
the meeting and updated the group on the But for Ohio
State campaign kickoff events.
Department Chair Stuart Cooper gave a department
overview. The department recently learned that it had
ranked second nationally in the 2010 update of NSF’s
database of total research funding. In 2010, the department was ranked 20th in Federal funding.
Guest Faye Bodyke gave an update on the construction of the new Koffolt Labs. The project was budgeted
for $89M in construction dollars and a $3.8M in bid
overage has been reduced to $1.1M. In March 2013,
the last piece of steel is expected to be placed to top out
the building. Building enclosure will occur in the fall
of 2013. Occupancy in the new building is expected to
begin at the end of 2014, beginning with the basement
and teaching areas. It will take up to eight months to
complete all the moves for the research laboratories.
Mike Winfield (foreground) and other members of the Koffolt Labs National Campaign Committee (L-R)
Larry Steele, Bill Hauschildt, Ron Harris, Gene Wheeler, Dennis Hurley, and Bill Lowrie listen as Director of
Development Jason Haskins (not shown) updates the committee on progress made in raising funds for the new
building. --Photo by Geoff Hulse.
New faculty member Lisa Hall gave an overview of her
work in polymers and ionomers and their applications
in car tires, golf ball covers, and photovoltaics.
Director of Development Jason Haskins gave a campaign update: $15M of the $17.5M goal has been
achieved. Bill Lowrie and Jason briefly discussed identifying class leaders for each class year - particularly those
with upcoming reunions - as a strategy for mobilizing
additional support.
The meeting concluded by viewing the But for Ohio
State campaign video featuring Bill Lowrie. Committee
members then went on a tour of the construction site.
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L to R: Jack Zakin, Larry Steele, Matt Galosi, Mike Winfield, Bob Brodkey, Stuart Cooper, Umit Ozkan, Bill Lowrie,
Lisa Hall, Brian Weider, Jeffrey Chalmers, Ron Harris, Dennis Hurley, Gene Wheeler, and Bill Hauschildt tour the
site. --Photo by Geoff Hulse.
Construction of the new Koffolt
Labs complex continues at an
astounding pace. --Photos by Geoff
Hulse.
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Karen (‘71) and Milt Hendricks: Engineering a rewarding life
Koffolt Campaign Committee
In 1966, disillusioned
pre-med student Karen
(Lafferty) Hendricks had
never even thought of
chemical engineering. But
when a friend suggested
it as an option, she
“marched right into Dr.
Syverson’s office and said,
‘I’m going to become
an engineer!’”
William G. Lowrie (B ChE ’66), Chair
Sheldon, South Carolina
Jeffrey D. Adams (B ChE ’87)
San Mateo, CA
Cynthia (Cindy) Gerstle Bishop (B ChE ’86)
Coppell, TX
James (Jim) F. Dietz (B ChE ’69, MS ’70)
Northfield, IL
Karen Hendricks in 1971
Matthew J. Galosi (B ChE ’80)
Katy, TX
The former high school valedictorian met her
match in the rigorous ChemE program, but stayed
motivated because she thought, ‘If I do this, there
will be a payoff in the end.’
David (Dave) Grove (B ChE ’70, MS ‘70)
Stuart, FL
Jack A. Hammond (B ChE ’61)
Iron Gate, VA
Ronald D. Harris (B ChE ’61, MS ’61)
Columbus, OH
Left to right: Bill Lowrie, Dennis Hurley, Matt Galosi, Larry Steele, Mike Winfield, Brian Weider, Ron Harris, Bill Hauschildt, Gene Wheeler.
--Photo by Geoff Hulse.
F. William (Bill) Hauschildt, Jr. (B ChE ’67, MS
’67) San Francisco, California
Alex W. Kawczak (B ChE ’82)
Dublin, OH
Lawrence R. Steele (B ChE ’58, MS ’58, PhD ’62)
Princeton, NJ
Karen Lafferty Hendricks (B ChE ’71)
Maineville, OH
Thomas J. Koffolt
Savannah, GA
Brian K. Weider (B ChE ’78)
Houston, TX
Kathleen (Kathy) Applegate Hogenson (B ChE
’82) Houston, TX
Sumner (Sonny) Saeks (BS ChE ’82)
Cincinnati, OH
Eugene (Gene) N. Wheeler (B ChE ’65, MS ’65)
Livermore, CA
Smith G. Howland (B ChE ’69, MS ’69)
Houston, TX
Christina Sistrunk (B ChE ’82)
Harvey, LA
Michael D. Winfield (B ChE ’62)
Long Grove, IL
Dennis W. Hurley (B ChE ’67)
Midland, MI
Alex
W.
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Karen excelled and blossomed as a ChemE student.
Having come from a small town (Shelby, OH), she
feels indebted to Ohio State because “it opened up a
world and set me on a really life-changing course.”
Two years ago, Karen and Milt made a gift to name
the Unit Ops Student Lounge in the new Koffolt
Labs complex. “Much of the success of ChemE
alums is attributable to this department, and it
deserves better facilities,” Karen said. “It’s becoming
impossible to train engineers of the future in the old
building, because it is obsolete. The new building
will be a much better learning environment.”
Although Milt and Karen feel it is important to
support the new building, they recently realized
that their passion is to help students like themselves.
This is why they’ve reconfigured the scholarship
they set up in 1999 to make it a “transformational”
award to predominantly support one recipient.
Scholarships enabled Milt to attend college at
Lehigh University, and the motivation Karen felt as
a scholarship recipient is also very important to her.
Madeline Shirk
Supporting the development of leadership skills
is one of the goals of the Hendricks scholarship
because “engineers with ‘people skills’ are the ones
who can maximize their professional contributions
and success,” Karen explains.
To Milt and Karen, philanthropy is a matter of
‘giving back.’ “We got good educations and feel truly
blessed with where we are in our lives. We don’t
need more ‘stuff.’ We are trying to live out our values
by how we spend our time and money,” Karen
said. “We get a lot of enjoyment from traveling,
and seeing the fruits of our philanthropic efforts.
It feels good when we give according to our values
and conscience – like we’re doing the right thing,”
she added. Milt agreed. “Money is man’s personal
energy in portable form. It can go places and serve
lives in ways you may never know,” he said.
At her 1971 graduation, Karen was one of 13
students out of about 7,000 who were honored as
“Outstanding Graduating Seniors.” She went on
to enjoy a successful career with executive roles
at Procter & Gamble (where she met husband
Milt, a now-retired R&D manager) and the Dial
Corporation. She retired as chairman, president,
and CEO of the Baldwin Piano & Organ Company
in 2001.
Even after Karen began her career, her ties to Ohio
State grew. In 1983, she was elected to serve on the
OSU Alumni Board of Directors. “I really enjoyed
that, and gained a network of like-minded alums,”
she said. Governor Taft later asked her to serve
on the Board of Trustees, and she received several
awards for service to alma mater.
The Hendricks scholarship has
similar meaning for current
recipients. CBE senior Madeline
Shirk (pictured at right) said,
“It’s motivational because here
are people who don’t really know
who I am, yet they think it is
worth investing in my education
and demonstrating faith in my
potential and future. The least I
can do is to pay them back by
working hard in school. It also
gives me time to get involved in
activities where I can build my
leadership skills.”
Milt and Karen Hendricks enjoying a sunset in Cabo san Lucas.
Madeline Shirk would certainly agree. “One day, I
hope to be able to help someone else in the same
way, because I know it has affected me and given
me opportunities. Investing in young engineers is
simply an awesome thing to do,” she said, smiling.
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Innovator of the Year Awards, continued -
CBE’s 2012 “Innovators of the Year:” Faculty and student win all three Innovator Awards
This year, CBE won all three
awards. In the history of the
award, no single college, let
alone department, has done so
before!
Winter’s Innovation
Involving Quantum
Dots
Qussai Marashdeh, Jessica Winter, and L.S. Fan
receive the 2012 “Innovator of the Year” awards.
To support entrepreneurial activity
among Ohio State researchers, OSU
presents three annual university-wide
awards recognizing research creativity
and commercialization: Innovator of
the Year, Early Career Innovator of the
Year, and Student Innovator of the Year.
Two neural cells are illuminated with
quantum dots to help identify receptors on the cell surface that bind to
external tissue.
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Jessica Winter was named
Early Career Innovator of the
Year. Winter and research
scientist Gang Ruan filed a
patent for inventing quantumdot based diagnostic tools for
clinical pathology, and started
a company, Core Quantum
Technologies, based on this
invention.
Quantum dots are
fluorescent nanoparticles of
semiconductor encapsulated
in tiny plastic nanocontainers
called micelles. They glow
like little traffic lights in
different colors, depending
upon which material is used.
Micelles containing different
combinations of red and green
dots provide the additional
benefit of a continuous glow
vs. the on and off “twinkling”
of single-color particles.
The dots help biologists
see the inner workings of
a cell, allowing them to
track chemical reactions
and cellular-level biological
processes under a microscope.
The technology can be
used by biomedical engineers
studying the root cause of
diseases like cancer, and for
medical imaging. Visit http://
nanoforneuro.com/ for info.
Quantum dots are very bright and can be
tailored to fluoresce with different colors.
Red and green micelles are captured on a
magnetic wire array for molecular detection
applications. Micelles make the particles 5x
brighter and more stable against oxidation.
A TEM image shows increasing numbers of nanoparticles being encapsulated in a micelle.
Fan’s Innovation: Clean Coal Carbon Capture
Technology
L.S. Fan was named 2012 Innovator of the Year, and Qussai
Marashdeh, who works with Dr. Fan, received the Student
Innovator of the Year Award.
Fan’s transformational work in chemical looping - a one-step
process to produce both electric power and high-purity CO2 converts carbon-based fuels such as coal, syngas and natural gas
to electricity, liquid fuels and/or hydrogen with low to negative
net carbon emissions. As one of the ultimate technologies in
the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE)’s Carbon Emission
Control Technology Roadmap, chemical looping utilizes the
reduction-oxidation reactions of an oxygen carrier to segregate
the air source from the fuel. This eliminates the need for energyintensive CO2 separation systems that require high capital and
operating costs.
In the fall of 2012, the project’s DOE-funded 25 kWth CoalDirect Chemical Looping (CDCL) pilot plant completed over
200 hours continuous operation, making it the longest continuous demonstration of chemical looping technology using
solid-fuel feedstock anywhere in the world. This success signifies
the commerical potential for the Ohio State-patented CDCL
technology to be implemented at either new greenfield plants or
for cost-effective repowering of existing coal-fired power plants.
This process for producing electricity and liquid fuel from
carbon-based fuels without adding to the greenhouse gas emissions that have been linked to rising global temperatures is
thought to be the most advanced technology of its kind.
CDCL technology’s potential economic and environmental impact could be far-reaching, since it would help foster the economical
use of coal reserves while controlling pollutants in a cost-effective
manner. In addition to the DOE, Ohio State is partnering with
the Ohio Department of Development, Babcock & Wilcox Power
Generation Group, Inc., CONSOL Energy Inc., and Clear Skies
Consulting LLC. Further, DOE’s National Carbon Capture Center in
Wilsonville, AL will serve as host site for building and operating a 25
kWth pressurized syngas chemical looping pilot unit this year. It will
be used to further prove the operability and economic feasibility of
OSU’s advanced chemical looping technologies.
Fan’s inventions are not limited to CDCL. He also invented the
first and only electrical capacitance volume tomography for threedimensional real time imaging of multiphase flows and reactor
systems. He commercialized it with spinoff company Tech4Imaging.
The technology has been used worldwide for academic research and
industrial practice.
News of the successful test-run of Fan’s CDCL technology
appeared in the February 7, 2013 MIT Technology Review Daily
Newsletter.
Liang-Shih Fan (above, right) points out details of the Ohio State sub-pilot
demonstration unit and chemical looping process to the U.S. Department of
Energy’s Assistant Secretary of Fossil Energy Charles McConnell (left) and
other representatives from the DOE, Battelle, American Electric Power, and
Babcock and Wilcox Power Generation Group at the Ohio State Clean Fuel
Research Center in Columbus, Ohio (July 2012).
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Game-Changer: Winston Ho
develops CO2 capture membranes
Divide and Conquer: Wood Labs develops method for splitting and reassembling a critical
protein to control its activity in biopharmaceuticals production
Researchers W.S. Winston Ho (distinguished professor of
chemical and biomolecular engineering and materials science),
Prabir Dutta (distinguished university professor in chemistry)
and their students have taken another step forward in the
global race for clean energy – a key element in national efforts
to mitigate climate change – by developing a novel and more
economical CO2 capture membrane.
Scientists in David Wood’s laboratories
have recently developed a new
method for rapidly purifying complex
biopharmaceuticals with highly
structured sugar molecules added to
their surface, which give them important
characteristics for various therapeutic
applications. Examples of these proteins
include the blockbuster drugs Remicade®
for the treatment of Rheumatoid
Arthritis (RA), Avastin® for metastatic
cancers, Rituxan® for RA and NonHodgkin’s Lymphoma, and dozens of
other lifesaving recombinant antibodies
and glycoproteins.
The research was funded by the Department of Energy’s Office
of Fossil Energy, which hopes to position the United States as
a leader in global clean energy within ten years by deploying
cost-effective carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS)
technologies at coal-fired power plants. The Ohio State team
received about $1M beginning October 1, 2011 for the total
funding of $3M for the project through December 2014.
Many of these therapeutics are based
on monoclonal antibodies and can be
purified using Protein A affinity methods,
but increasingly important non-antibody
glycoproteins cannot. These proteins
require individual methods to be
developed, which can slow the discovery
and development of new therapeutics,
while increasing their eventual costs.
The researchers’ groundbreaking development – an economical
hybrid membrane that combines the separation performance
of inorganic membranes with the cost-effectiveness of polymer
membranes -- has vast commercial potential for use at coal-fired
power plants using CCUS technologies.
Winston Ho and Prabir Dutta stand with the equipment used
to make their unique hybrid membranes. The technology could
be used in a variety of separation applications. --Photo by Geoff
Hulse.
CCUS technologies strive to increase CO2 capture efficiency by
re-using some of the emissions generated in coal-burning to
produce further energy. However, before the carbon dioxide
generated at a power plant can be securely stored or put to use, it
must first be separated from the flue gas stream. Unfortunately,
the energy cost of current separation technologies has been
too high to make rapid commercial deployment of CCUS
technologies feasible.
The breakthrough for Ho, Dutta and their team lies in their
approach of combining polymer membranes (organic or plastic),
which are mass produced and cost effective, with inorganic
membranes (metal or ceramic), which exhibit much better
performance but are expensive to produce. By using a flexible
polymeric membrane support, they can fabricate the membrane
in roll-to-roll processing, enabling them to produce hybrid
inorganic/organic membranes in a low-cost manner.
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The development of these new drugs
has created an urgent need for a general
and reliable purification method. The
Wood Lab has worked over the past
several years to develop a solution to this
problem by using self-cleaving molecular
hooks, called “affinity tags.” This method
adds a small sequence of DNA to the
DNA sequence of the target protein so
that the target becomes “tagged” with a
molecular hook when it is made. This
hook allows the target protein to be very
easily purified, using a simple and general
method.
Once purified, the tag is induced to
remove itself, producing an unmodified
target protein for use in research or in the
clinic.
Although this method is very powerful
and convenient, it has not been applied
to therapeutic glycoproteins because the
tags tend to cleave themselves too soon
in the special mammalian cells where
they are made – before the purification
procedure can be completed.
Professor Wood’s student, Changhua Shi,
recently solved this problem by splitting
the self-cleaving part of the tag into two
pieces. Each half of the tag is inactive on
its own, and therefore cannot self-cleave
until the two pieces have been mixed
together.
This allows the purification to take place
under highly controlled conditions,
which greatly increases the efficiency and
appeal of the method.
This work was recently published in the
Journal of Applied Microbiology and
Biotechnology.
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Additional photos
from Wood Labs
appear on the
following page.
David Wood and student Changhua Shi discuss expression of test proteins in Chinese Hamster Ovary cell culture. --Photo by Geoff Hulse.
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Undergraduate Program
2012 Cooperative Learning Experiences
Professor Wood and student Changhua
Shi discuss a recent Western blot of the
glycoproteins they are purifying with their
self-cleaving tag method.
Professor Wood and student Michael Coolbaugh discuss strategies for using self-cleaving
affinity tags in conventional chromatographic separations equipment.
Student Miriam Shakalli-Tang sets up
overnight cultures of a bacterial biosensors strain for detecting estrogenic
endocrine disruptors.
Student Tzu-Chiang Han passages cells
in a biosafety hood.
Students meet with advisors Brian Endres and Holly Prouty to evaluate different
schedule arrangements before interviewing because many employers hire for
specific “rotations.” For instance, students may work fulltime during the summer,
attend full-time classes in autumn, and return to their employer for full-time
work in the winter. The most popular term to work is the summer. Last year,
CBE students completed 62 co-op rotations and 109 internship or part-time work
experiences.
Research Scientist Richard Lease
purifies DNA for an experiment.
Professor Wood and students (L-R): Changhua Shi,
Jeevan Baretto, Samuel Stimple, Tzu-Chiang Han,
Daniel Knight, Michael Coolbaugh, Elif Miskioglu,
Miriam Shakalli-Tang.
Student Jeevan Baretto prepares protein
samples for SDS-PAGE analysis.
The Engineering Cooperative Education & Internship Program (ECIP) helps
undergraduate students obtain career-related employment of two types:
cooperative education (co-op) positions and internships. A co-op experience
provides an opportunity to apply what is learned in the classroom in careerrelated positions by alternating quarters of full-time coursework with periods
of paid, full-time employment. An internship involves one work period with an
employer. A work period may last for one quarter or for two consecutive quarters.
Summer internships are the most popular among students and employers.
Student Tzu-Chiang Han examines CHO cells during a
protein expression experiment.
--Photos by Geoff Hulse
The following is a list of companies who hired OSU undergraduates in our program
and the students who were hired by those companies:
Anomatic Corp: Jason Ezzell
Ashland, Inc: Courtney Bareswilt
Bayer Corp: Katherine Zorc
Cargill: Lydia Griffith
CDM Smith: Ashley Fortman
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS): Steven Cooper, Theo Hicks, Joseph Janko,
Karen Kwong, Andrew Lust, Daniel Weckstein
Cummin, Inc: Maya Hughes
Dannon Co.: Ronald Lechner, Courtney Bareswilt
Diamond Innovations: Michael Yingling, Daniel Lacey
Dow Chemical: Michael Witwer, Loan Bui, Adam Kowalski, Janee McNeil, Kacie
LaBrecque
Dow Corning: Michele Brizgys, Timothy Kremer
DuPont: John Logue, Wei Luo, Daniel Morris, J.Todd Starkey
Eaton Corp: Whitney Sherrill
Entrotech: Terhi Reponen, Tabitha Smith
Everris: Nathan Fahrenkamp
Exxon Mobil: Nicole Bayona, Nicholas Deerhake, Kendel Mesch
General Electric Corp: Robert Kirian, Philip Kotich, Molly Langhenry, Jason Lee,
Vincent Miller, Bryan Summerlin
General Mills: Kendel Mesch, Jacquelyn Pittman
General Motors: Kyle McLaughlin
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co: Andrea Detwiler, William Luppino
Hexpol: Derek Anderson, Alex Lapatinsky
Honda: James Emmenecker
Idaho National Laboratory: Binbin Wu
Ingersoll Rand Co-Trane: Alexander Helsinger
Kimberly-Clark Corp: Alexandra Claytor
L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics: Kevin Asper
Lubrizol Corp: Matthew Konderson
Marathon Oil: Kara Bihn, Robert Dugan, Nathan Fahrenkamp, Lily Glick, Michael Hartman, Adam Kalivoda, Matthew Konderson, Joshua Martin, Ashley Sandlin, Colin Schumaker,
Vadim Vishnepolsky, Robert Warburton, Daniel Weckstein
Monsanto Co: Keith Stump
Nestle USA: Megan Butts, Brian Richards, Aileen Seitz
Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Alison Boyd
Ohio Precious Metals: Chloe Higgins
Ohio State University: Nahien Sharif, Mandy Sheridan
OMNOVA Solutions Inc: Matthew Rowley
Owens-Illinois (O-I): Chase Miller, Paul Robertson
PCC Airfoils: James Emmenecker, Alexander James, Kevin McNulty, Eric Watkins
Pfizer Inc: Mary Hesse
PH Matter LLC: Jesaiah King
Precision Castparts Corp-PCC: Caleb Smith
Procter and Gamble: Scott Hochberg, Ashley Sandlin
Rich Products Corp: Christopher Bailey
RoviSys Co: Radhika Madhavan
Scotts Co: Loan Bui, Adam Enloe, Joanna Gobeille, Chau Lam, William Murray, Mark Villarreal
Shepherd Color Co: Maxwell Roy
Sherwin Williams Co: Morgan Doty, Emily Helber, Aaron Strickland
The Vavicor Group: Guk Hee Youn
Therma-Tru Corp: Michael Smith, Frank Sweterlitsch
Toyota: Morgan Doty, Jason Ezzell
Unilever: Christopher Bailey
University of Texas-San Antonio: Malika Chandradasa
Valero: William Herold, Frank Sweterlitsch
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2012 Placement Record for Undergraduates
Graduates of our program continue to have a strong placement record
both within industry and within graduate and professional programs.
The percentages provided here are based on senior exit surveys at the
time of graduation.
Sixty-four percent of our graduates will be going directly to industry
with their BS degrees. About 15 percent of our students will be going
on to graduate or professional school. Approximately 30 percent of
our students have accepted positions in Ohio and will stay in the
state to pursue their post graduation plans. Students will be working
at various corporations such as Exxon Mobil, the Dow Chemical
Company, Procter and Gamble, and DuPont.
A number of our graduates received Latin Honors, With Distinction
Honors or With Honors in Engineering. Latin honors are defined as
follows: a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.5-3.69 is Cum
Laude; 3.70-3.89 is Magna Cum Laude; and 3.90-4.00 is Summa Cum
Laude.
A student who graduates “With Honors Research Distinction” is an
honors student (greater than a 3.4 GPA) who has completed a senior
honors research thesis. A student who graduates “With Research
Distinction” is a student (GPA between 3.0-3.39) who has completed
a senior research thesis. A student who graduates “With Honors in
Engineering” has completed a three-prong program consisting of
completing a required number of honors courses, participation in
community service, leadership and outreach as well as participation
in “investigational studies” which typically includes completing a
research paper or thesis, or completing a minor. Fourteen students
graduated with Honors in Engineering and nine students graduated
With Distinction in various disciplines.
Engineering Career Services (ECS) welcomes all employers to register
to recruit Ohio State engineering students and graduates. There is
no cost to register and no fees for ECS services. If you, or someone
you know, is interested in hiring Ohio State students for co-op
experiences, internships, or for full-time placement, please contact
Amy Thaci, Director of Engineering Career Services at (614) 2926651. You can read more about the services offered through ECS by
visiting their webpage: http://career.eng.ohio-state.edu.
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2012 B.S. Graduates - Employment Status and Location (State)
Autumn 2011 (December 2011)
Winter 2012 (March 2012)
Yazeed Almotowa
Abdulaziz Almousa
Aqeel Alrajhi
Brandon Clinger
Anthony Garber
Sean Hawkins
Rebecca Heyse
Bryan Hobocienski
James Hynes
Aleese Lewis
Matt McKinney
Matthew Murray
Joshua Post
Barric Reed
Brian Saunders
Henrick Sawczak
Robert Wiest
Brian Wohlfarth
Matthew Cerone
Ryan Clark
Hired by SABIC, Saudi Arabia
Hired by SABIC, Saudi Arabia
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; Hired by SABIC, Saudi Arabia
No information provided
Hired by Capital One, VA
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; No information provided
Graduated Cum Laude; hired by Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corp-Bettis
and KAPL Labs, SC
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; Pursuing MS ChE (school unknown)
Hired by Baker Hughes, WV
Hired by Schlumberger, TX
No information provided
Hired by IBM Corp, NY
Hired by Baker Hughes, TX
Hired by IBM Corp, NY
Hired by HB Fuller Co., MN
No information provided
Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by Epic, WI
No information provided
Hired by Norcold Inc., OH
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; With Honors and Honors
Research Distinction; Pursuing PhD ChE, The Ohio State
University
Michael Hamilton No information provided
Christopher Harvey No informatin provided
Johnathan Johnson No information provided
Katrina Kolkmeier Hired by Estee Lauder, PA
Brooke Laing
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; With Honors in
Engineering; With Honors Research Distinction; Hired by
Ford Motor Co, MI
Mengchuan Li
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; Pursuing MS in Higher
Education, University of Pennsylvania
Steven Lim
Graduated Cum Laude; With Honors in Engineering; Hired
by Procter & Gamble, OH
Julia Mueller
Graduated with Research Distinction in ChE; No
information provided
Art Neeley
Hired by Williams, PA
Justin Que
Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by Matrix Technologies, Inc,
OH
Michael Smith
Hired by Therma-Tru Corp, IN
Left: A student takes a
momentary break from
the rigors of Unit Ops.
Graduate students Youngmi Seo, Kuldeep Mamtani, and Andrew Maxson explore campus.
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Spring 2012 (June 2012)
Laura Acosta
Graduated Cum Laude; With Honors in Engineering; No
information provided
Andrew Amaya
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; Pursuing MS/PhD ChE at OSU
Michael Antalis
Graduated Cum Laude; No information provided
Whitney Beard
Hired by Archer Daniels Midland, OH
Sefani Berihun
Hired by Nestle USA
William Bluem
Hired by Accenture, OH
Cameron Bodenschatz Graduated Cum Laude; With Honors in Engineering; With
Honors Research Distinction in Mechanical Engineering; Pursuing MS/PhD at Clemson University
Robert Comer
Hired by Baker Hughes, TX
Anthony Constantino Hired by Shell Oil Co, TX
Peter Dobler
Graduated with Honors in Engineering; Hired by FMC Corp.
Elliott Dolan
No information provided
Michael Dumas
No information provided
Andrew Dunagan
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; No information provided
Shuwen Fan
No information provided
Bradley Fattlar
No information provided
Dustin Fawcett
Hired by Cornerstone Controls
Joshua Feeney
No informatin provided
Ilse Fernandez Herrera No information provided
Robert Fidelibus
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; With Honors Research
Distinction; Hired by DOW Chemical, LA
Steven Fisher
No information provided
Cheryl Grubbe
No information provided
Michael Hartman
No information provided
Michael Heinrichs
Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by Battelle Memorial Institute, OH
Erin Hiestand
Hired by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co, OH
Jacob Huggins
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; No information provided
Danielle Jensen
Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by Shell Oil Co, LA
Matthew Jones
No information provided
Kevin Kauffman
Graduated Summa Cum Laude; With Honors in Engineering;
With Honors Research Distinction; Pursuing MS/PhD at MIT
Brian Kiel
No information provided
Charlie Kiley
Hired by Shell Oil Co, TX
Adam Kowalski
Graduated with Honors in Engineering; Hired by DOW Chemical
Joseph Linsenmeyer Graduated Summa Cum Laude; Hired by Shell Oil Co., LA
Joshua Martin Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by Marathon Oil
David Mazala
Graduated Cum Laude; No information provided
Brenna McNamee
Hired by Pilot Chemical Co., OH
Chase Miller Hired by Johns Manville, OH
Brad Morris
No information provided
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Elhadji Ndiaye
Michael Nechay
Peter Nguyen
Tri Nguyen
Addison Nilges
Kunal Parikh
Sean Pattison
Abigail Prickett
Justin Reed
Derek Reichel
Kent Reid
Lisa Reisenauer
Nicholas Sakian
Chris Schneider
Scott Shaheen
Nahien Sharif
Sweety Sharma
Albert Shin
Michael Shivers
Dylan Silbiger
Daniel Simons
Hok Hei Tam
Anthony Unger
MattUstaszewski
Joe Vanderburgh
Jay Wang
Cody Ward
Daniel Wisniewski
Evan Wozniak
No information provided
Graduated Cum Laude; With Honors in Engineering; Pursuing
PhD at University of California-Los Angeles
No information provided
No information provided
No information provided
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; With Honors Research Distinction;
With Honors in Engineering; Pursuing MBA/PhD in Biomedical
Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
Graduated with Research Distinction; Hired by State Industrial
Products, OH
No information provided
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; No information provided
Graduated Summa Cum Laude; With Honors in Engineering; With
Honors Research Distinction; Pursuing MS/PhD Pharmaceutical
Sciences, University of Kentucky
No information provided
No information provided
No information provided No information provided
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; With Honors in Engineering;
No information provided
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; Hired by Epic, WI
No information provided
Hired by Trutec Industries, OH
Hired by Cooper Tire and Rubber Co., OH
Hired by General Electric Corp., NY
No information provided
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; With Honors in Engineering; With
Honors Research Distinction; Pursuing PhD in ChemE at MIT
Graduated Summa Cum Laude; Hired by Bridgestone Americas
Inc., OH
Hired by Pilot Chemical Co., OH
Hired by Frito-Lay, TX
No information provided
Hired by Babcock and Wilcox, CO
No information provided
No information provided
Right: Graduate student Liang Zeng and friend
enjoy a CBE-hosted event.
Summer 2012 (August 2012)
Autumn 2012 (December 2012)
Andrea Calamari
Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by Procter & Gamble,
OH
Kory Carmichael
Hired by Johns Manville, OH
Justin Carpp
Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by Arkema, Inc., AL
Christine Copa
Graduated Cum Laude; No information provided
David Deckelman
Hired by Cornerstone Controls
Ryan Fleming
No information provided
Nathanial Gardner
No information provided
Christopher Graham
No information provided
Melissa Grigger
Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by General Mills, IL
Wenqin He
Graduated Cum Laude; With Honors Research
Distinction in Mechanical Engineering; No
information provided
Sarah Heifner
Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by Monsanto, LA
William Holthaus
No information provided
Craig Hoying
No information provided
Zachary Johnson
Hired by Ashland, Inc., IA
Asher Kay
Graduated Summa Cum Laude; With Honors in
Engineering; No information provided
David Lovano
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; With Honors in
Engineering; No information provided
Brittany Niles
Graduated with Honors in Engineering; Shell Oil Co.,
TX
James Orr
Graduated Cum Laude; With Honors Research
Distinction; No information provided
Ryan Politowicz
Hired by Capital One, VA
Theodore Rader
Graduated Cum Laude; With Honors in Engineering;
With Honors Research Distinction; No
information provided
Bharat Ramamurthy
Hired by Schlumberger
Steven Ross
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; With Honors in
Engineering; Hired by Shell Chemical, AL
William Szumski
Hired by Baker Hughes, OK
Jessica Tufts
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; With Honors in
Engineering; Hired by Cargill, SC
Matthew Weininger
Hired by Dover Chemical, IN
Brian Williams
No information provided
Rachel Williard
No information provided
Nicole Bayona
Hired by General Mills, IL
John Bieber
Graduated Cum Laude; No information provided
Eric Boruszewski
No information provided
Lukas Brooks
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; With Honors in
Engineering; Hired by Mettler-Toledo, OH
Paolo Brunello
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; No information provided
Nicholas Clare
No information provided
Edward Dcruz
Hired by Accenture, Washington, DC
Frank Dembia
Deployment with U.S. Navy
Michael Dressler
ARC Document Solutions, OH
Patrick Heasley
No information provided
Theo Hicks
No information provided
Olivia Kindschuh
Graduated Cum Laude; With Honors in
Engineering; Hired by Procter & Gamble, OH
Nicholas Koenig
Graduated Summa Cum Laude; With Honors in
Engineering; No information provided
Chau Lam
No information provided
Nahyun Lee
No information provided
Sudono Lie
Graduated Cum Laude; No information provided
Eric Mank
No information provided
Aaron Nimrick
Hired by Procter & Gamble, OH
Nicholas Ohanian
Pursuing MS ChE, The Ohio State University
Eric Perko
No information provided
Jacquelyn Pittman
Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by General Mills,
TN
Chelsea Quinn
No information provided
Paul Robertson
Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by SABIC, AL
Monica Roser
Hired by HB Fuller, MN
Sydney Rush
No information provided
Tyler Russell
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; Hired by
Rockwell Automation, OH
Mandy Sheridan
Hired by Accenture, OH
Matthew Small
Hired by Cornerstone Controls, IN
Leslie Vanderkolk
Hired by Unilever, VA
Efrain Vazquez
Hired by Accenture, OH
Ashley Ward
No information provided
Kristin Weisser
Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by NAVAIR, MD
Kevin Young
Hired by Archer Daniels Midland, IL
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42
71
31
42
26
91
15
13
Instructor
Dr. David Wood
Dr. Andre Palmer
Dr. James Rathman
Dr. Mike Paulaitis
Dr. Isamu Kusaka
Dr. L.S. Fan
Dr. Kurt Koelling
Dr. S.T. Yang
760
Dr. Carlo Scaccia
764
Dr. Jeffrey Chalmers
765
Dr. David Wood
771
Dr. Barbara Wyslouzil
777
Dr. L. James Lee
779
Dr. James Rathman
693
Various
H783 Various
Spring 2012
#
Course
75
201
156
420/520
0
489
49
509
138
523
143
610
14
733
25
734
22
750
94
762
49
764
8
766
38
772
28
775
16
693
13
H783 -17-17-
Instructor
Dr. Jack Zakin
Dr. Martin Feinberg
Dr. Isamu Kusaka
Dr. James Rathman
Dr. Michael Paulaitis
Dr. Aravind Asthagiri
Dr. James Rathman
Dr. Jeff Chalmers
Dr. James Rathman
Dr. Stuart Cooper
David Tomasko
Dr. Bhavik Bakshi
Dr. S.T. Yang
Dr. Bhavik Bakshi
Dr. Kurt Koelling
Various
Various
Course Title
Chemical Processes & Calculations I
Chemical Processes & Calculations II
Professional Practice in Industry
Thermodynamics I
Thermodynamics II
Transport Phenomena II
Transport Phenomena III
Engineering Economics & Strategy
Process Design
Principles of Biochemical Engineering
Air Pollution
Polymer Nano Engineering
Experimental Design
Undergraduate Research
Undergrad. Honors Research (Thesis Track)
Course Title
Chemical Processes & Calculations II
Transport Phenomena I
Professional Practice in Industry
Thermodynamics II
Unit Operations
Kinetics
Novel Separation Processes
Molecular Informatics
Profession of CBE
Process Development
Process Design
Biotechnology/Bioprocess Engineering
Principles of Sustainable Energy
Rheology of Fluids
Undergraduate Research
Undergrad. Honors Research (Thesis Track)
Right: Graduate student Erin
Landers and her husband share a
laugh at a CBE-hosted event.
Undergraduate Enrollment
130
125
120
115
110
105
100
95
90
85
80
75
70
65
60
55
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
(number of students)
900
Pre-Majors
Majors
Total
800
700
Summer 2012 (first semester)
#
Course Instructor
Course Title
115
3630/4630 Carlo Scaccia
Unit Operations Lab
22
5755
Dr. Bob Johnson
Chemical Process Safety
0
4193
Various
Undergraduate Individual Studies
0
4998 Various
Undergraduate Research
0
4998H Various
Undergraduate Honors Research
0
4999
Various
Undergraduate Thesis Research
0
4999H Various
Undergraduate Honors Thesis
Research
Autumn 2012
#
Course Instructor
Course Title
120
2200
Dr. Umit Ozkan
Process Fundamentals
Dr. David Wood
14
2420
Dr. Andre Palmer
Transport Phenomena I
0
3189
Dr. James Rathman Professional Practice in Industry
150
3508
Dr. Aravind Asthagiri Thermodynamics
123
3521
Dr. Isamu Kusaka
Transport Phenomena II
122
4624
Dr. Lisa Hall
Process Dynamics & Controls
112
4760
Dr. L.S. Fan Novel Separation Processes
Dr. Carlo Scaccia
16
4764
Dr. Jeff Chalmers
Process Design and Development
25
5740
Dr. Michael Paulatis Quantitative Cell Biology
Dr. R. Soorykumar
3
5769
Dr. Stephen Lee
Biomedical Nanotechnology
48
5771
Dr. Barbara Wyslouzil Air Pollution
27
5773
Dr. Stuart Cooper
Introduction to High Polymer Engineering
85
5779
Dr. James Rathman Design & Analysis of Experiments
70
5790
Dr. James Rathman Modeling & Simulation
1
4193
Various
Undergraduate Individual Studies
3
4998
Various
Undergraduate Research
Number of B.S. Degrees Per Year
Shows Total Students, Number Granted to Women and Number Granted to Ethnic Minorities
600
500
Chem. E Total
Women
Ethnic Min
2009
2008
400
300
900
100
800
804
700
2009
2011
2010
2012
600
2013
Data taken each January
400
Ethnic Min
200
0
168
163
164
52
51
61
76
79
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
100%
Ethnic Min
Total Students
45
30
18
2010
95%
Women
ChBE 200 is the department's first major
course. This table shows total enrollment in
that course and the break down enrollment of
women and ethnic minority students. Previous
years include only students who passed the
course with a C- or better.
2009
234
201
172
Includes Majors & Premajors
137
16
Women
Percentage of Women & Ethnic Minorities
Versus Number of Total Students Over Time
Tracking CBE 200/2200 Enrollment
34
591
Total Students
205
164
665
724
500
100
156
696
300
Tracking CBE 200 Enrollment
220
210
200
190
180
170
160
150
140
130
120
110
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
2012
2011
Female and Ethnic Minority Trends in
Total Department Enrollment
200
0
2010
21
2011
49
18
2012
60
20
2013
90%
85%
80%
75%
70%
65%
60%
55%
50%
45%
40%
35%
30%
0.292
25%
0.245
0.235
0.278
0.291
20%
15%
10%
0.091
0.077
2008-2009
2009-2010
0.0876
0.105
0.098
2011-2012
2012-2013
5%
0%
2010-2011
Academic Year
Women
Ethnic Min
850
825
800
775
750
725
700
675
650
625
600
575
550
525
500
475
450
425
400
375
350
325
300
275
250
225
200
175
150
125
100
75
50
25
0
Total Number of CBE Students
Winter 2012
#
Course
100
200
91
201
1
489
45
508
100
509
46
521
150
522
Undergraduate Enrollment Graphs
Percentage of Women or Ethnic Minority Students
Course Enrollment
Total Population
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2012-2013 Undergraduate
Scholarship Information
A total of 135 students were awarded
undergraduate scholarships in the Chemical
& Biomolecular program. The vast majority
of those students were current majors,
although a small amount went to recruit high
ability first year students as well. A total of
$134,450 was awarded to students heading
into the 2012-2013 school year. The average
award was $995 this year compared to $866
the previous year.
Harold W. Almen Scholarship
Jeremy Barlage
Matthew Konderson
Allison Basinger
Kacie LaBrecque
Worku Berihun
Doug Montjoy
Zamantha Brown
Kevin Nowicki
Jonathan Davis
Timothy Oliver
Timothy Hogan
Parth Patel
Joseph Janko
Lucas Rodriguez
Jerold Kim
Michael Smith
Trends in data from financial aid show that
the number and amount of both student
and parent loans have been increasing. Both
Ohio State tuition and University financial
support have increased yearly. However,
since the increase in scholarship support
hasn’t been able to keep up with tuition
increases, engineering students and their
families have had to increase their debt levels
to cover the additional costs. In the Chemical
& Biomolecular Engineering Department,
department scholarships from alumni and
corporate donors help defray a small part of
the burden of loans for many of our students.
Paul Bates Scholarship
Jordan Boon
Alexandra Claytor
Theo Hicks
Department scholarships are determined
mainly on merit, however, both merit
and need are taken into account when a
scholarship specifies consideration for need.
J.R. Boothe Scholarship Fund
Ryan Gallagher
We sincerely thank those of our alumni who
have established scholarship endowments,
as well as our corporate donors who provide
scholarships on an annual basis.
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Robert W. Adams Memorial Scholarship
Kevin Asper
Kathryn Maltry
Nicholas Blum
Jacquelyn Pittman
Mary (Mollie) Hesse
Bryan Summerlin
Daniel Lacey
Keith Johnson
Janee McNeil
Rayvion Sanford
The George S. Bonn Scholarship
Zezhen Cheng
Hongyang Pi
Wenqin He
Goutham Putta
Lianwan Huang
Pengpeng Qi
Chenxi Li
Sai Pranav Uppati
Luhe Lu
Binbin Wu
Xinpei Mao Wenlan Yang
Hui Peng
Xiao Xiao Yu
The James F. and Patricia C. Dietz Engineering
Scholarships Fund
Zachary Adams
Eric Piening
Jesaiah King
Hannah Zierden
Lily Glick
Dorothy J. & Herbert L. Fenburr Scholarship
Derek Anderson
Ronald Lechner
Lukas Brooks
John Logue
Paolo Brunello
Kevin McNulty
Megan Butts
Sean Merrill
David Chen
Kyle Nimon
Alex Elchert
Garrett Price
Nathan Fahrenkamp
Paul Robertson
Joanna Gobeille
Monica Roser
Kyle Hatton
Sydney Rush
Emily Helber
Mandy Sheridan
Scott Hochberg
Jason Su
Jesaiah King
Leslie Vanderkolk
Nicholas Koenig
Laura Van Vliet
Karl Kroll
Efrain Vazquez
Karen Kwong
David H. George Chemical Engineering
Scholarship
Erica Brackman
Paul Lacher
Wiiliam Drees
Peter Lyon
Mitchell Jokerst
Kalee McElmurry
Kathryn Molitoris
Jane Whitten
William R. & Doris M. Harris Scholarship in
Chemical Engineering
Mehak Chawla
Erin McLean
Mitchell Guenther
Brian Mog
Clinton Holloway
Michael Risbeck
Geoffrey Kleimeyer
Stacey Sherman
Jason Lee
Vadim Vishnepolsky
Mitchell Louis
Milton & Karen Hendricks Scholarship
Kara Bihn
Killian Llewellyn
Madeline Shirk
Smith E. Howland Scholarship
Wei Luo
Kendel Mesch
The Samuel S. and Grace Hook Johnston Memorial Chemical Engineering Scholarship Fund
Nicholas Collinger
Jacquelynn Herron
Allan I. Gordon Undergraduate Scholarship
for Study in Biochemical Engineering
William Luppino
Tyler Russell
Webster B. Kay Scholarship in Chemical
Engineering
Chloe Higgins
Stephen Gould
Todd David Harris Memorial Scholarship
Lauren DiNardo
Katherine Gradert
Rob Russell
Lubrizol Foundation Scholarship
Cornelius Cilliers
Kristi Olesik
The Tom and Gail Reardon Chemical Engineering
Scholarship Fund
Alexander James
Katie Jones
Nicholas Wood
The Howard R. Steele Memorial Scholarship
in Chemical Engineering
Joshua Fouasnon
Gregory Jameson
Aldrich Syverson Scholarship
Kevin Asper
Lauren Dellon
Scott Hochberg
Timothy Kremer
H. Richard Unkel Chemical Engineering
Class of 1941
William Cohen
Joseph Gauthier
Paul Hudson
Bradley Jordan
Marisa McCaffrey
Lisa Steffan
Jonathan Strutz
Nathan Volchko
Harry B. Warner Scholarship
Brittany Niles
William H. Whirl Scholarship
Jessica Tufts
The Michael D. Winfield Scholarship
Gina Pietro
Fred H. Winterkamp Memorial Scholarship
Zachary Coates
Rachel
Student
Williard
preparing
in the midst
the water-diluted
of the “Unit Ops
acetic
experience.
acid charge
”
for the activated
carbon
fixed bed
adsorption
in the Unit Ops Lab.
Rachel
graduated
in the
summer ofexperiment
2012.
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2012 Alumni Donors
Grad Yr Name of Alumna/Alumnus
1940
Charles H. Boardman III
1941
David Thomas
1943
Dalton F. Drake, Carlyle E. Shoemaker, James C.
Wynd
1944
Wallace L. Bostwick, Edward W. Powell
1946
Kenneth A. Brandstetter, Haskell McGriff (deceased)
1947
William K. Fell, Herbert G. Krane, John B. Martin,
Bryce H. McMullen, Donald F. Stauffer
1948
Richard A. Arnold (deceased), John A. Burgbacher,
Lee B. Fosdick, Earl W. Goodman, Robert E. Kraus,
Henry B. Lange, Manuel Ramos, George R. Secrist,
Robert M. Tarr
1949
Paul E. Bates, Gordon G. Cross, Bruce E. Hill, J.
Howard Kerstetter Jr., Glen D. Schaaf
1950 Walter E. Donham, Verne Rinehart, Richard L. Scott,
Ralph E. Sieber
1951
Norman G. Bartrug, Charles L. Dornbusch, Paul W.
Izant, John R. Parkinson, Norbert F. Reinert, David
A. Strang
1952
James F. Froning, Donald E. Haupt, Richard F.
Hazelton, C. Richard Heil, Charles Schmitz, David G.
Stephan
1953 Robert A. Bates, Roger L. Briggs, Donald E. Findlay,
Wilfred C. Ling, James L. Wilson
1955 John R. Blunden, Wendell B. Hammond Jr.
1956 Robert A. Cody, William D. Coe, Herbert H. Fanning
1957 Walter R. Andrews Jr., A. Leo Carter, Walter A. Flack,
Jon D. Helms, Sung H. Hong
1958 Edward H. Bollinger, Charles N. Carpenter, John
J. Connelly, James R. Facer, Barry C. Hartley, Werner
S. Lichtenstein, Thomas R. Loy, Frank J. Nagy, Valdis E. Petritis, Richard M. Smith, Harold A. Sorgenti, James W. Stark, Lawrence R. Steele
1959
Charles H. Brown, James R. Godwin, Ronald M.
Kovach, James H. Laughlin, Darryl J. Von Lehmden
1960 Virgil L. Anderson, Carl E. Brooks Jr., Guy A. Crossley, Joseph O. Estill, Edgar W. Fasig Jr., Orville W.
Gruebmeyer Jr., Gordon R. Howard, Russell L. Wilt
1961 Paul R. Bigley, James W. Bowers, Richard B. Cooper, Dale C. Edwards, Clyde W. Folk, Fonald L. Follmer,
Ronald D. Harris, David E. Hazlebeck, Donald I. King,
Soon Ng
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1962 David E. Bidstrup, James Charles Opatrny, C. David
Osbun, Michael J. Sorocak, Michael D. Winfield
1963 Nelson W. Barnhill, Gary L. Beeler, John P. Henry Jr.,
Robert P. Kasper, Fred Shaffstall, Kay L. Snider
1964 Michael B. Cutlip, Michael F. Dague Sr., William
R. Ferris, James B. Sapp
1965 Oliver L. Davies, Frederick H. Flor Jr., Douglas W.
Hissong, Arthur H. Morth, Frederick J. Rerko, Michael
C. Royer, William A. Smith, Gary L. Street, Eugene N.
Wheeler
1966 James G. Arnold, James V. Braun, Thomas E. Fitz Sr.,
William G. Lowrie, Glenn L. McKee, John W. Mitchell
1967 John W. Bradshaw, C. Douglas Dunlap, Keith A. Dunnigan, F. William Hauschildt Jr., Dennis W. Hurley,
Graham F. Painter Jr., Anthony Santavicca, Richard D.
Stolk, John M. Yacher
1968 Lawrence H. Green, Geoffrey A. Lindsay, Faramarz F.
Nazem, Ronald R. Remick, John M. Salladay
1969 James F. Dietz, Smith E. Howland, Geoffrey A. Prentice,
M. Anandha Rao, Steven E. Russell, John Toussant
1970 Bradford F. Dunn, David R. Grove, David O. Kutscher,
John D. Rensel, James N. Stambolis, Richard B. Strait,
Rosa Uy, Harry H. Yieh
1971 Juliet D. Balmer, Dale A. Draudt, Karen L. Hendricks,
Jeffrey L. Kosch, William E. Pritchard, Harrison L.
Stebbins, Armen Tergevorkian, Stephen Zakanycz
1972 Charles B. Ernst, James P. Russell, Yoon S. Song
1973 John C. Bost, David A. Dargan
1974 Christopher R. Beharry, Steven M. Brown, Rod Creager,
Mark E. Forry, John E. Myers, George L. Ott, Michael A.
Patterson
1975 John T. Erikson
1976 Debra G. Billman, James M. Delabar
1977 Robert L. Collins, Douglas J. Hallenburg
1978 James H. Etherton, Janet L. Inkrott, Mike Moore, Rad V.
Scott III, Neil P. Stuber, Elizabeth A. Stuber, Brian K.
Weider, Thomas E. Winkler
1979 Darice A. Davis, Karen T. Murphy, Gary S. Phillips,
Ronald C. Reynolds, Inger J. Schultz, Ronald D. Vlcek,
Tad K. Williams
1980 Frederick T. Clark, Bruce R. DeBruin, Matthew J. Galosi,
Mark A. George, Joseph Petrarca Jr., Gary R. Prok,
Timothy L. Strickler, Daniel R. Schwaegerle, David G.
Vutetakis
1981 Nancy C. Dawes, Ronald A. Gibson, Douglas V. Lenz,
James A. Telljohann
1982 Dan Lambert, Sumner M. Saeks, Christina S. Sistrunk
1983 Michael B. Begland, Tracy F. Begland, Stephen R.
Cammarn, Samuel D. Fink, Keith R. Nowak, Clark
B.Wade, Robert E. Young
1984 David C. Arters, Teresa L. Datz-Siegel, Joseph L.
Herzog, Randall L. Lonsbrough, Gregory M. Masica,
Roger W. Nelson, Patrick A.Renner
1985 Douglas J. Ball, Roger G. Facer, Mark J. Hogan, Timothy
A. Johnson, David J. Moonay
1986 Edward Bochenek, Rajeev L. Gorowara, Tharuvai S.
Ramesh, David P. Vance
1987 Jeffrey D. Adams, Denise M. Burcham, D. Brian Noe,
Timothy A. Rash, Donna M. Walter
1988 Amy S. Doty, Bhavesh V. Patel, Craig L. Shoemaker
1989 Stuart F. Doty, Amy R. Pressly, Jack Vinson
1990 Larry D. Doza, Craig M. Kehres, Frank J. Kizlik,
James V. Lombardi, Timothy F. Matheis
1991 Greg E. Grotke, Kristan K. Latham, Rick Wright
1992 Pamela J. Archer,
1993 Ronald C. Kaminski Jr., Frank E. Seipel
1994 John D. Clay, Karen I. Kaminski
1996 Jack R. Reese II, Liping Zhang
1998 Aravind R. Asthagiri, Michael T. Timko
1999 Matthew F. Ehlerding, James W. Holder, Mohamadou
Sarr
2000 Regis P. Geisler III
2001 Thomas J. Jaynes, Eric S. Jensen, Paul H. Matter, Scott A.
McAlpine
2002 Jun Luo, Timothy M. Price
2003 Derrick A. Butler, Aaron P. Griset, Xiangmin Han
2004 Lori A. Engelhardt, Kurt Frey, Erica N. Jones, Adam
M. Woeste
2005 Garrett E. Pavlovicz
2006 Adam C. Burley, Yi Zhang
2008 Ryan D. Griffin, Jeffrey R. Skinn, Andrew C. Williams
2009 Cathryn J. Marshall, Andrew W. Vail
2011 Daniel J. Griffin, Kevin M. Sutton,
2012 William L. Bluem, Cameron J. Bodenschatz, Christopher
M. Schneider, Zhenchao Sun.
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1942: Betty F. Unkel; 1944: Audrey B. Bazler;
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Marilyn E. George; 1950: Roland C. Fischer, Joann
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Scott; 1979: Susan H. Williams; 1980: Sharon R.
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E. Dawes, Pamela R. Saeks, Kimberly J. Strickler,
Chihae Yang; 1982: James K. McHugh, Sandra
J. Telljohann; 1984: Jill C. Wade; 1985: Cheryl
H. Ball, Eugenia M. Etherton, Roger G. Facer;
1988: Beth A. Dible, Christine C. Gorowara;
1989: Sharada Krishnamurthy; 1990: Melanie D.
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1998: Brian D. Hogg; 2000: Anna G. Ehlerding;
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Katherine C. Bower, Angie B. Byrne, Lisa A. Price;
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2008: Ryan D. Griffin, Adam E. Winter; 2009:
Benjamin S. Scragg; 2012: Henry L. Robinson,
Christopher M. Schneider.
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Lori A. Adams, Jo Ann Albery, Ruby T.
Anderson, Eunice G. Andrews, Joyce A. Arnold,
Ruth M. Bates (deceased), Bhavik R. Bakshi,
Charles F. Balmer, Ida E. Barickman, Dinah
N. Banhill, Patricia A. Bates, Carol J. Bidstrup,
Lavada M. Bigley, Janet S. Boardman, Teresa
Bochenek, Mary M. Bollinger, Dorra L. Bost,
Betty J. Bostwick, Carolync C. Braun, Martha A.
Briggs, Robert S. Brodkey, Rita E. Broestl, Lucy
R. Brooks, Janis M. Brown, Michael W. Burcham,
Marjorie P. Burgbacher, Tavane C. Cammarn,
Susan P. Carter, Jeffrey J. Chalmers, Lois W.
Cody, Edith B. Coe, Virginia A. Connelly, Suart
L. Cooper, Marilyn Cooper, Mary A. Creager,
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Hope H. Erikson, Elaine Ernst, Diana K. Estill,
Suzanne F. Facer, Karen S. Facer, Liang-Shih
Fan, Margaret Y. Fasig, Martin R. Feinberg, Gail
L. Feinberg, Virginia S. Fell, Phyllis E. Ferris,
Marilyn S. Findlay, Donna M. Fink, June W. Fitz,
Eleanor B. Flack, Lynn D. Flanagan, Marlene
G. Flor, Suzanne Folk, Nell M. Froning, Susan
S. Galosi, Mary E. George, Sally L. Gibson,
Mary A. Goodman, Judith M. Grotke, Judy H.
Gruebmeyer, Joy P. Hammond, Doris W. Harris,
Mildred B. Haupt, Ruth B. Hazelton, Patricia C.
Hazlebeck, Beth M. Heil, Sharon A. Helms, Milt
Hendricks, Barbara K. Hissong, W.W. Winston
Ho, Annie Ho, Helen H. Hogan, Lee A. Holder,
Yung Ok Hong, Christine H. Howland, Diane
M. Izant (deceased), Jillian B. Jaynes, Audrey
M. Johnson, Adrienne M. Kasper, Colleen S.
Kerstetter, Nikita S. Kevlich, Beverly G. King,
Kurt W. Koelling, Mary Lou S. Kovach, Reta
N. Krane, Isamu Kusaka, Nancy L. Kutscher,
Nancy K. Lambert, James L. Latham, Sandra M.
Laughlin, L.J. Lee, Sandra W. Lenz, Celia C. Ling,
Marie C. Lombardi, Kimberley T. Lonsbrough,
Ernestine R. Lowrie, Rosemary S.L. Loy, Phyllis
R. Martin, Lisa Y. Masica, Perrin H. Matheis,
George T. Matthews, Carol K. McAteer, Sarah
M. McGriff, Kristina D. McHugh, Elizabeth M.
McKee, Eileen S. McMullen, Gloria C. Meyers,
Kenneth E. Meyers, Olga T. Michalos, Dorothy
B. Morris, Thomas G. Morris, Deanna I. Nagy,
Linda Nazem, Virginia F. Nelson, Michele H.
Noe, Beth B. Opatrny, Irma M. Osbun, Janet M.
Ott, Umit S. Ozkan, Erdal Ozkan, Andrew F.
Palmer, Allison L. Palmer, Shital Patel, Mary G.
Patterson, Michael E. Paulaitis, Linda L. Paulaitis,
Kathleen J. Petrarca, Nancy H. Petritis, Caroline
C. Powell, Robert F. Pressly, James K. Preston,
Janell S. Pritchard, Isolina C. Ramos, Jan S. Rao,
James F. Rathman, Danielle L. Reese, Karen
B. Remick, Sharon L. Renner, Sally B. Rensel,
Phyllis K. Rerko, Rosalie G. Rinehart, Janice P.
Russell, Debra Santavicca, Linda S. Sapp, William
W. Schultz, Sonya M. Schwaegerle, Viola M.
Scott, Nancy L. Shaffstall, Violet A. Shoemaker,
Elizabeth H. Shoemaker, Randall A. Siegel,
John B. Sistrunk, Joy S. Smith, Sung L. Song,
Ann R. Sorgenti, Judith A. Stambolis, Susan
Stebbins, Mary B. Street, Rita Tergevorkian, Amy
J. Tomasko, David L. Tomasko, Paula T. Vance,
Helen L. Von Legmden, Rene K. Vutetakis, Julia
R. Weider, Cindra Wheeler, Carol J. G. Williams,
Norma H. Wilson, Cindy E. Wilt, Arlene R.
Winfield, Caroline Winkler, Jessica O. Winter,
David W. Wood, Barbara E. Wyslouzil, Debra F.
Young, Barbara A. Zakanycz, Jacques L. Zakin,
Laura P. Zakin, Nan Zhang, Ping C. Zhang.
Pictured right: Graduate students Xiang
Zhang, Witopo Salim, and Cheng Chung
Corporate and Organizational Donors
Abbott Laboratories, American Electric Power,
Ashland Inc., BP Foundation Inc., BASF
Corporation, Edward H. Bollinger Revocable
Trust, Bostwick Family Trust, ButylFuel LLC,
Chevron Humankind Program, Chevron Phillips
Chemical Company LLC, Chevron Texaco
Information, Clorox Company Foundation,
Columbus Foundation Big Give Fund, Columbus
Southern Power, Conoco Phillips, Crowe
Horwath LLP, Dow Chemical Company, Dow
Corning Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company Inc.,
Enterprise Products, ExxonMobil Corporation,
James Facer Trust, Emily Audra Fleisher Trust,
FMC Foundation, GE Foundation, Genentech
Inc., Goodrich Foundation Partners in Giving,
Greater Cincinnati Foundation-Procter &
Gamble Fund, Hewlett-Packard Foundation,
IBM International Foundation, Ingredion Inc.,
JM Smucker Company, Johnson & Johnson
Family of Companies, Randall Lonsbrough, DDS
Inc., Lubrizol Foundation, Make A Difference
Foundation Inc., Marathon Petroleum Company
LP, MDU Resources Foundation, Merck
Partnership for Giving, Occidental Petroleum
Charitable Foundation, Owens Corning, Pepsico
Foundation, PPG Industries Foundation, Procter
& Gamble Fund, SC Johnson Wax Fund, SherwinWilliams Foundation, June C. Scott Trust,
Shoemaker Living Trust, Rosa Uy Trust, Williams
Companies Foundation, TE Connectivity,
Tech4Imaging, UBS Financial Services.
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Graduate Program
Ranking
Faculty Productivity
Graduate Degrees Granted
The 2013 U.S. News and World Report rankings of engineering graduate programs
placed the Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at #28.
While the college rankings are based in good part on objective measures such as
research funding, number of Ph.D. graduates, number of publications, etc., the
departmental rankings are based on subjective surveys of deans of engineering and
industrial executives.
The following table relating to faculty research and our Ph.D. program attests to our faculty’s
productivity. In the past five years the average graduation rate was 15 Ph.D. students per
year and a ratio of 0.78 Ph.D. degrees per faculty member. 2012 shows a decline in research
expenditures to $7.3M, reflecting the end of substantial funding from the “Third Frontier”
program from the State of Ohio.
Winter 2012
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Ohio State College of Engineering
2927252930
Engineering Specialties
Aerospace 2122191922
Biological/Agriculture - 11121214
Biomedical - - 353542
Chemical 2727272728
Civil 3836363638
Computer Engineering 2920- 2323
Computer Sci 31- 28- 28
Electrical 2620222219
Environmental/Env. Health 3939424248
Industrial/Manufacturing 1821161621
Materials 1416151517
Mechanical 2022212118
Nuclear - 13151513
200720082009201020112012
Total Faculty
17
17
18
19
19
20
Publications
89
78
91
125
100
130
Publications per Faculty
5.23
4.58
5.06
6.58
5.26
6.50
Books or Book Chapters
11
8
14
10
13
6
Patents
1
2
3
4
1
8
Total Grad Students
96
95
95
88
89
88
Grad Students/Faculty
5.65
5.58
5.58
4.89
4.94
4.40
Ph.D. Degrees Granted
11
11
15
18
9
21
Ph.D. Degrees/Faculty
0.65
0.65
0.88
0.95
0.47
1.05
Research Expenditures* 12,249,000 12,462,000 13,332,000 16,181,000 10,649,000 7,253,000
Research Exp/Faculty
720,530 733,060740,670 851,580 560,470
362,650
$18,000,000
$14,000,000
$12,000,000
Total Expenditures
$10,000,000
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Advisor
Jeffrey Chalmers
Doctor of Philosophy Advisor
Lu Feng David Tomasko
Dissertation: Experimental Study of Nucleation in
Polystyrene/CO2 System
Kelley Mullick
Barbara Wyslouzil
Dissertation: Binary Nucleation of n-butanol and
Deuterium Oxide Conducted in Supersonic Nozzles
Spring 2012
Doctor of Philosophy Advisor
Adam Burley
Isamu Kusaka
Dissertation: Toward a Fundamental Understanding of
Bubble Nucleation in Polymer Foaming
Nicole Guzman
Michael Paulaitis
Dissertation: Characterization and MiRNA Analysis of
Cancer Cell-secreted Microvesicles
Deepak Sridhar
L.S. Fan
Dissertation: Oxygen Carrier Development and Integrated
Process Demonstration for Chemical Looping Gasification
$16,000,000
During the past five years the research expenditures for the department have been
outstanding. While we experienced a decline to $7.2M in fiscal year 12, we expect
significant increases in future years due to the extraordinary productivity of a
number of our senior faculty and the ramping up of research of faculty who have
recently joined the department. On a per-capita basis, expenditures averaged over
$650K per year during fiscal years 2008-2012. Our faculty are among the most
productive at Ohio State and near the top of all Chemical Engineering departments
in the nation.
Master of Science
Alejandra Garcia-Villa
Indirect Cost
$8,000,000
$6,000,000
$4,000,000
$2,000,000
$0
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Megan Terp
L. James Lee
Dissertation: Improved Nanoparticle Preparation and
Delivery Technology for DOTAP and Oligonucleotide Based
Lipoplexes
Jie XuJeffrey Chalmers
Dissertation: Improved Nanoparticle Preparation and
Delivery Technology for DOTAP and Oligonucleotide Based
Lipoplexes
Doctor of Philosophy (Cnt’d)
Advisor
Ru Zang S.T. Yang
Dissertation: Development of 3-D Microbioreactor Systems for
Cell-Based High Throughput Screening
Bin Zhu
L. James Lee
Dissertation: Layered-Silicate Based Polystyrene Nanocomposite Foam Using Carbon Dioxide as Blowing Agent
Autumn 2012
Master of Science
Hyunkyu Choi
Kalpesh Mahajan
Laura Merugula
Nihar Phalak
Shuai Zhang
Advisor
Umit Ozkan
Jessica Winter
Bhavik Bakshi
L.S. Fan
L. James Lee
Doctor of Philosophy Advisor
Hyunkyu Choi
Umit Ozkan
Dissertation: Perovskite-type Oxide Material as ElectroCatalysts for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
Hyung Kim
L.S. Fan
Dissertation: Coal-direct Chemical Looping Combustion
Process for In-Situ Carbon Dioxide Capture – Operational
Experience of Integrated 25-Kwth Sub-Pilot Scale-Up
Shreyas Rao
Jessica Winter
Dissertation: Neural Biomimetic Materials for Investigating
Cell Behaviors in 3D
Shweta Singh
Bhavik Bakshi
Dissertation: Incorporating Bio-geochemical Cycles and
Utilizing Complexity Theory for Sustainability Analysis
Robert Urban
Bhavik Bakshi
Dissertation: Toward Sustainability through Techno-Ecological Synergy: Including Ecosystems in Engineering Design
and Analysis
Doctor of Philosophy (Cnt’d) Advisor
Liang Zeng
L.S. Fan
Dissertation: Multiscale Study of Chemical Looping
Technology and Its Applications for Low Carbon Energy
Conversions
Kun Zhang
S.T. Yang
Dissertation: Fumaric Acid Fermentation by Rhizopus
Oryzae With Integrated Separation Technologies
Summer 2012
Master of Science
Samuel Bayham
Alan Wang
Advisor
L.S. Fan
L.S. Fan
Doctor of Philosophy Advisor
Ashutosh Bhabhe
Barbara Wyslouzil
Dissertation: Experimental Study of Condensation and
Freezing in a Supersonic Nozzle
Preshit Gawade
Umit Ozkan
Dissertation: Redox Catalysis for Environmental
Applications
Haifeng Shi
Jacques Zakin
Dissertaion: Surfactant Drag Reduction and Heat Transfer
Enhancement
Zhenchao Sun
L.S. Fan
Dissertaion: Morphological Property Variation and Ionic
Transfer Behaviors of Solid Reactants in Fe-based and CaObased Chemical Looping Processes
Xin Wang
Stuart Cooper
Dissertation: Peptide Linked Polymers for Cardiovascular
Applications
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Graduate Program Seminars
Winter 2012
1/5
1/12
1/19
2/9
A James Link, Assistant Professor, Departments
of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Molecular Biology, Princeton University, “How to
Tie Peptide Knots”
Alan W. Weimer, H.T. Sears Memorial Professor,
Executive Director, Colorado Center for Biorefining
and Biofuels (C2B2), Department of Chemical and
Biological Engineering, University of Colorado,
“Renewable Soloarthermal Production of Fuels from
Biomass and Water”
Kris C. Wood, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical
Research, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, “Defining the
Genetic Determinants of Therapeutic Response in
Melanoma Using Miniaturized Functional Genomics”
Keith Roper, Director, Nano Bio Photonics Lab,
Assistant Director, Associate Professor and Charles W.
Oxford Chair of Emerging Technologies, University of
Arkansas, “Plasmonic Nanocomposites in Materials,
Probes, and Manufacturing”
Spring 2012
1/26
2/2
2/9
Akua Asa-Awuku, Assistant Professor, Chemical
and Environmental Engineering, University of
California–Riverside, “Do We Understand AerosolCloud Climate Interactions? Linking Organic Aerosol
Properties to Cloud Condensation Nuclei”
Cynthia Lo, Assistant Professor, Department of
Energy, Environment and Chemical Engineering,
Washington University in St. Louis, “Molecular
Design of Efficient Catalysts for Greenhouse Gas
Utilization”
2/16 Keith Roper, Director, Nano Bio Photonics Lab,
Assistant Director, Associate Professor and Charles W. Oxford Chair of Emerging Technologies, Univer
sity of Arkansas, “Plasmonic Nanocomposites in
Materials, Probes, and Manufacturing”
3/29
3/8
Wilfred Chen, Gore Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, “Biomo
lecular Tools for Sustainable Energy and Improved
Human Health”
Joe Dooley, Fellow, The Dow Chemical Company,
“Research in a Global Chemical Company”
Yebo Li, Assistant Professor, The Department of
Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The
Ohio State University, “Emerging Technologies for
the Production of Energy and Products from Organic
Waste”
4/5
Annie Weisbrod, Principal Scientist, Product Safety &
Regulatory Affairs, Procter & Gamble, “Sustainability
Focus Areas and Supply Chain Approaches at P&G”
4/12
Stephen Cheng, Dean, College of Polymer Science
& Polymer Engineering, University of Akron,
“Giant Molecules based on Nano-atoms: Size
Amphilification, Function Diversification, and SelfAssembly Manipulation”
4/19
Matthew Tirrell, Professor and Prtizker Director,
Institute of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, “Protein Analogous Micelles: Versatile,
Modular Nanoparticles”
4/26
Paul Barton, Lammot du Pont Professor of Chemical
Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Optimal
Design and Operation of Natural Gas Value Chains”
5/3
Zhen-Gang Wang, Professor, Department of
Chemical Engineering, California Institute of
Technology, “Thermodynamics of Salt-Doped
Polymer Blends and Block Copolymers”
2/23 Warren Zapol, MD, Emeritus Anesthetist-in-Chief,
Director Anesthesia Center for Critical Care Research,
Massachusetts General Hospital, “Life at the Frontier”
3/1
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Thomas Magliery, Assistant Professor, Departments
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State
University, “Information in Protein Sequences:
Combinatorial and Statistical Protein Design”
5/10
Georges Belfort, Institute Professor, Howard P.
Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological
Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Insight
into the Kinetics of Oligomer Formation During
Amyloidosis”
5/17
Jan Lerou, Principal, Jan Lerou Consulting, LLC,
“Small Scale Gas-To-Liquid Processes Today”
5/24
Pablo Debenedetti, Lowrie Lecture I, Class of 1950
Professor in Engineering and Applied Science,
Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological
Engineering, Vice Dean, School of Engineering
and Applied Science, Princeton, “The Theory of
Hydrophobicity: Some Recent Developments on a
Venerable Subject”
5/25
5/31
Pablo Debenedetti, Lowrie Lecture II, Class of
1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science,
Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological
Engineering, Vice Dean, School of Engineering
and Applied Science, Princeton, “Thermodynamic
and Kinetic Models of the Emergence of Biological
Homochirality”
John (Zhongwei) Chen, Professor, Department
of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo,
“Nanostructured Non-precious Catalysts for
Metal-Air Batteries”
Autumn 2012
9/6
9/13
9/20
Chunshan Song, Distinguished Professor of Fuel
Science and Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Departments of Energy & Mineral Engineering,
and Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State
University, “New Design Approaches to Capture
and Catalytic Conversion of CO2 to Clean Fuels for
Sustainable Development”
Chau-Chyun Chen, Vice President of Technology,
Aspen Technology, Inc., “Molecular Thermodynamics
and Process Modeling Technology for Energy and the
Environment”
Michael Poirier, Assistant Professor of Physics,
Biochemistry, Molecular Virology, Immunology and
Medical Genetics, The Ohio State University, “The
Mechanics of the Human Genome”
9/27
Lisa Hall, H. C. “Slip” Slider Assistant Professor, William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio
State University, “Dynamics of Model Ionic
Polymer Melts”
10/4
Jason Haugh, Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular
Engineering, North Carolina State University, “Cell
Migration: Where Biochemistry and Biophysics Meet”
10/18 Michael Doherty, Professor and Chair, University of
California, Santa Barbara, “Crystals are Like People:
Growth and Defects Are What Make Them Interesting”
10/25 Graduate Research Initiative Program Seminar
(GRIP): Matthew D. Gallovic, “Synthesis and
Characterization of an Acetalated Dextran Polymer
and Microparticles with Ethanol As a Degradation
Product,” Jeevan Baretto, “Construction of Neurexin
Biosensor and Screening of Potential Ligands,” Xi
Zhao, “CEBPA Mutant Regulates mkR181a Expression in AML Cells: A Single Cell Study by Nanochannel Electroporation”
11/8
Kristala L. Jones Prather, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,“Modular Pathway
Design for Synthesis of Biofuels and Biochemicals”
11/15 Hsueh-Chia Chang, Director, Center for Microfluidics and Medical Diagnostics, Bayer Professor of
Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame,
“Electrokinetic Technologies for Portable Molecular
Diagnostics”
11/29 Lars Grabow, Assistant Professor of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston,
“Tailoring the Catalytic Properties of Transition Metals and Aluminosilicates Guided by First-Principles
Calculations”
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Graduate Student Awards
Samuel Bayham: Won 2nd place in the poster competition at the 2nd International Conference on Chemical
Looping in Darmstadt, Germany, Received the Outstanding TA Award for Autumn 2012
Ray Kim: Won Outstanding Graduate Student Award for
Research Excellence at the Lowrie Banquet
Daniel Knight: Won Outstanding Graduate Student
Award for Research Excellence at the Lowrie Banquet
Meimei Liu: Won the Alumni Grants for Graduate
Research and Scholarship from the Graduate School in
the Spring 2012 competition
Kalpesh Mahajan: Placed first in the Fisher College of
Business 2012 Business Plan Competition as a member
of Core Quantum Technologies
Harshad Pathak: Received a travel grant from the
U.S. Department of Energy to attend the 31st Annual
American Association of Aerosol Research Conference
in Minneapolis, MN in October 2012
Faculty
Ilgaz Soykal: Won Outstanding Graduate Student Award
for Research Excellence at the Lowrie Banquet, Received
the AIChE Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
Travel Award, Received First Place in Student Presentation
in Microscopy Society of the Ohio River Valley (MSORV)
Zhenchao Sun: Won Outstanding Graduate Student Award
for Research Excellence at the Lowrie Banquet
Graduate Student
University Fellowships:
materials: building effective catalysts from first-principles,
DOE-EFRC (LSU).
Xinyu Liu
Gauri Nabar
Kuldeep Mamtani
Kristopher Richardson
Samuel Stimple
$600,000 Asthagiri, Aravind (25%) (2012-2015)
Growth and reactivity of oxide phases on crystalline Pd and Pt
surfaces, DOE-BES.
Associate Professor, PhD, Carnegie Mellon, 2003.
Computational materials science, energy & sustainability.
Yanan Zhao: Won Outstanding Graduate Student Award
for Research Excellence at the Lowrie Banquet
A. Antony, A. Asthagiri, and J.F. Weaver, “Pathways for C-H
bond cleavage of propane sigma-complexes on PdO(101),”
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 14, 12202 (2012).
Refereed Papers
Kun Zhang: Won the Autumn 2012 Ray Travel Award from
the Council of Graduate Students
Distinguished University Fellowship
holder Yinming Du enjoys a moment with
peers at a CBE-sponsored event.
Y-T. Cheng, T-R. Shan, B. Devine, D. Lee, T. Liang, B.B.
Hinojosa, S.R. Phillpot, A. Asthagiri, and S.B. Sinnott,
“Atomistic Simulations of the Adsorption and Migration
Barriers of Cu Adatoms on ZnO Surfaces using COMB
Potentials,” Surf. Sci., 606, 1280 (2012).
Kartik Ramasubramanian: Won Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Research Excellence at the Lowrie
Banquet
A. Antony, A. Asthagiri, and J.F. Weaver, “Dispersion effects
on DFT calculations of alkane adsorption on PdO(101) and
Pd(111),” J. Chem. Phys., 136, 054702 (2012).
Haifeng Shi: AIC Outstanding Graduate Student Award
at the Lowrie Banquet
Current Grants/Contracts
Nihar Phalak explains calcium looping at the First Annual
Graduate Research Symposium held Fall 2012. Nihar also served
as the lead organizer for the event. --Photo by Geoff Hulse.
$354,300 Asthagiri, Aravind (50%) (2009-2013)
Tailoring enantiospecific properties of chiral metal
nanoclusters on chiral metal oxides, National Science
Foundation.
$769,119 Asthagiri, Aravind (50%) (2009-2014)
Computational catalysis and atomic-level synthesis of
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Refereed Papers
Robert Brodkey
Professor Emeritus, PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1952. Validation of computational fluid dynamic codes with experimental measurements that involves full field, time-resolved, velocity
vector measurements.
J.A. Hinojosa, C. Hakanoglu, A. Antony, A. Asthagiri and J.F.
Weaver, “Adsorption of CO2 on a PdO(101) thin film,” J. Phys.
Chem. C 116, 3007-3016 (2012).
Nihar Phalak: Fall 2012 Career Development Grant
Award from the Council of Graduate Students
V. Khanna, L. A. Merugula, and B. R. Bakshi. “Environmental
Life Cycle Assessment of Polymer Nanocomposites,” chapter
in Advances in Polymer Nanocomposites, Ed. by F. Gao.
Woodhead Publishing, 2012.
E. Landers, R. A. Urban, and B. R. Bakshi. “Accounting for
Ecosystem Services in Life Cycle Assessment and Design,”
chapter in Life Cycle Assessment: A Guide for Environmentally
Sustainable Products, Ed. by Mary Ann Curran. Scrivener
Publishing, 2012.
Aravind Asthagiri
Lin Zhao: Won the 2012 NAMS Student Travel Award to
attend the NAMS Annual Meeting in June in New Orleans,
Won Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Research
Excellence at the Lowrie Banquet
Books and Book Chapters
A. Baral, B. R. Bakshi, and R. L. Smith. “Assessing Resource
Intensity and Renewability of Cellulosic Ethanol Technologies
using Eco-LCA”. Environmental Science and Technology
46(4),(2012), pp. 2436–2444.
L. Merugula, V. Khanna, and B. R. Bakshi. “Reinforced Wind
Turbine Blades - An Environmental Life Cycle Evaluation,”
Environmental Science & Technology 46 (2012), pp. 97859792.
N. B. Cruze, P. K. Goel, and B. R. Bakshi. “On the ‘rigorous
proof of fuzzy error propagation with matrix-based LCI’”
International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (2012). (http://
dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11367-012-0475-y)
Bhavik Bakshi
Current Projects and Grants
Professor, PhD, MIT, 1992. Sustainability science and
engineering, process systems engineering.
$200,000 Fiksel, Joseph (co-PI: Bhavik R. Bakshi)
Resilient Enterprise Consortium, Center for Resilience.
Awards and Honors
$300,000 Bakshi, Bhavik R. (co-PI William J. Mitsch) (20092013). Toward Integration of Industrial Ecology and Ecological
Engineering, National Science Foundation.
Research Excellence in Sustainable Engineering, Awarded by
the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Sustainable
Engineering Forum (2012).
$418,965 Li, Yebo (co-PI: Bhavik R. Bakshi, Rudy Buchheit)
(2012-2015)
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Production of Bio-polyols and Derivatives from Biodiese
Based Crude Glycerol for Low VOC Coating Applications, U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
circulating tumor cells from patients receiving chemotherapy,
Front. Oncol. 2(128), 2012; PMID. 23112954; PMC ID
PMC3480704.
$6,000,000 Li, Yebo (co-PI: Bhavik R. Bakshi, Ratan Lal,
Denny Hall, et al.) (2012-2015)
Bioenergy and Biofuels Production from Lignocellulosic
Biomass via Anaerobic Digestion and Fisher-Tropsch Reaction,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, BRDI Program.
Jin, X., Abbot, S., Zhang, X., Kang, L., Voskinarian-Berse, V.,
Karmeneva, M.V., Moore, L.R., Chalmers, J.J., Zborowski,
M., Erythrocyte enrichment in hematopoietic progenitor cell
cultures based on magnetic susceptibility of the hemoglobin.
PLoSONE. Vol. 7, Issue 8:1-10, e39491, 2012; PMID: 22952572;
PMCID: PMC3428333.
Balasubramanian, P., Lang, J.C., Jatana, K., Miller, B., Schuller,
D., Agrawal, A., Lustberg, M., Zborowski, M., Chalmers, J.J.
Multiparameter analysis, including EMT markers, on negatively
enriched blood samples from patients with squamous cell
carcinoma of the head and neck. PLoSONE. 7:1-11, e42048,
2012; PMID:22844540; PMCID: PMC3406036.
Jeffrey Chalmers
Jin, X., Chalmers, J.J., Zborowski, M. Iron Transport in Cancer
Cell Culture Suspensions measured by Cell magnetophoresis.
Analytical Chemistry. 84,4520-4526, 2012; PMID 22500468.
Referreed Papers
Lustberg, M., Jatana, K.R., Zborowski, M., Chalmers, J.J.
Emerging Technologies for CTC Detection Based on Depletion
of Normal Cells. Recent Results Cancer Res. 195,97-110 (2012).
Professor, PhD, Cornell, 1988. Biochemical engineering,
bioengineering, biomedical engineering.
K.D. Mahajan, G. Vieira, G. Ruan, B.L. Miller, M. Lustberg, J.J.
Chalmers, R. Sooryakumar, J.O. Winter (Invited), "MagDotNanoconveyer Assay for Detection and Isolation of Molecular
Biomarkers," Chemical Engineering Progress, December 2012,
41-51 (2012).
Jie, Xu, Mahajan, K., Xue, W., Winter, J.O., Zborowski, M.,
Chalmers, J.J. Simultaneous, single particle, magnetization and
size measurements of micron sized, magnetic particles, JMMM
324,4189-4199. 2012. PMID: 22962515; PMC3433070.
Garcia-Villa, A., Balasubramanian, P. Miller, B.L., Lustberg, M.,
Ramaswamy, B., Chalmers, J.J. Assessment of γ-H2AX levels in
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W911QY-10-C-0235).
Refereed Papers
$1,300,000 Chalmers, Jeffrey, P.I. (2008-2012)
Large-scale human placenta progenitor cell-derived erythrocyte
production – continuous red blood cell production. Celgene
Corp./DARPA.
Wang, X., D. E. Heath and S. L. Cooper, "Endothelial Cell
Adhesion and Proliferation to PEGylated Polymers with
Covalently Linked RGD Peptides," J. Biomed. Mater. Res.,
100A, 794-801 (2012).
$313,433 Winter, P.I., Chalmers, Jeffrey, Co-P.I., (2009-2012)
Fluorescent-magnetic nanomaniputators for cytoskeletal
mechanical investigations. NSF GRT00013770.
Heath, D. E. and S. L. Cooper, "Design and Characterization
of Sulfobetaine-containing Terpolyer Biomaterials," Acta
Biomaterialia, 8, 2899-2910 (2012).
Plenary Lecturer, 14th Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical
Engineering Congress (APCChE 2012), Singapore (February
21 – 24, 2012).
$145,000/yr Chalmers, Jeffrey, P.I. of sub-contract from CC
(1994-2016). Magnetic Cell Sorting and Analysis. NIH, (2R01
CA062349-15.
Heath, D.E., C Kobe, D. Jones, N. Moldovan and S. L. Cooper,
"In-Vitro Endothelialization of Electrospun Terpolymer
Scaffolds: A Survey of Scaffold Type and Cell Source," Tissue
Engineering, Part A, 19(1-2), 79-90 (2013).
Referred Papers
$68,577 Lee, J., Chalmers, Jeffrey (2012-2013)
CANBD-II: Nanofluidics-based nanofactor detection line, NSF
EEC-0425626.
$359,779. Winter, Jessica (PI), coPIs: Wyslouzil, Barbara,
Chalmers, Jeffrey, Ruan, Gang (2012-2015)
Micellular Electrospray Synthesis of Magnetic Quantum Dots.
NSF# 1206745.
Stuart L. Cooper
$150,000 Chalmers, Jeffrey, P.I. (2012-2014)
Magnetic technologies for microalagal biofuel production.
GRT00025262 NSF Phase II SBIR awarded to Phycal, Inc.
University Scholar Professor and Department Chair, PhD,
Princeton University, 1967. Polymer science and engineering,
properties of polyurethanes and ionomers, blood-materials
interactions, tissue engineering.
Awards and Honors
$180,000 Chalmers, Jeffrey, P.I. (2011-2013)
CTC blood testing and Analysis. Navel Health Research Center
Elected American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS) Engineering Section Council Delegate 2012-2015.
Innovator of the Year Award, The Ohio State University
(October 11, 2012).
W. Wang, S. Ramkumar, D. Wang and L. S. Fan, “Simulations
and Process Analysis of the Carbonation-Calcination Reaction
Process with Intermediate Hydration,” Fuel, 92, 94-106 (2012).
Fu-Chen Yu, Nihar Phalak, ZhenChao Sun and Liang-Shih
Fan, “Activation Strategies for Calcium-Based Sorbents for
CO2 Capture – A Perspective,” I&EC Research, 51, 2133-2142
(2012).
Diffusion-Reaction Mechanism and Reactor Engineering,”
Reviews in Chemical Engineering, 28, 1-42 (2012).
Meenal Pore, Thusara C. Chandrasekera, Daniel J. Holland,
Aining Wang, Fei Wang, Qussai Marashdeh, Michael D.
Mantle, Andrew J. Sederman, Liang-Shih Fan, Lynn F. Gladden
and John S. Dennis, “Magnetic resonance studies of jets in a
gas–solid fluidized bed,” Particuology, 10, 161-169 (2012).
Daniel P. Connell, David A. Lewandowsk, Shwetha Ramkumar,
Nihar Phalak, Robert Statnick and Liang-Shih Fan, “Process
Simulation and Economic Analysis of the Calcium Looping
Process (CLP) for Hydrogen and Electricity Production from
Coal and Natural Gas,” Fuel, 105, 383-396 (2013).
Nihar Phalak, Niranjani Deshpande and Liang-Shih Fan,
“Investigation of High Temperature Steam Hydration of
Naturally Derived Calcium Oxide for Improved Carbon
Dioxide Capture Capacity Over Multiple Cycles,” Energy and
Fuels, 26, 3903-3909 (2012).
S. Ramkumar, N. Phalak and L. S. Fan, “Calcium Looping
Process (CLP) for Enhanced Steam Methane Reforming,” I&EC
Research, 51, 1186-1192 (2012).
Shridhar, D., Tong, A., Kim, H., Zeng, L., Li, F. and Fan, L. S.,
“Syngas Chemical Looping Process: Design and Construction
of the 25KWth Sub-Pilot Unit,” Energy and Fuels, 26, 2292-2302
(2012).
Zhenchao Sun Siwei Luo and Liang-Shih Fan, “Ionic
Transfer Mechanism of COS Reaction with CaO: Inert
Marker Experiment and Density Functional Theory (DFT)
Calculation,” AIChE Journal, 58 (8), 2617-2620 (2012).
Zeng, L., Luo, S. and L. S. Fan, “Chemical Looping Processes
for CO2 Capture and Carbonaceous Fuel Conversion –
Prospect and Opportunity,” Energy & Environmental Science, 5
(6), 7254 – 7280 (2012).
Appointed Honorary Professor, Tsinghua University, P.R.
China, (October 16, 2010 – October 15, 2013).
Nihar Phalak, Shwetha Ramkumar, Niranjani Deshpande, Yao
Wang, William Wang, Robert Statnick and Liang-Shih Fan,
“Calcium Looping Process (CLP) for Clean Coal Conversion:
Design and Operation of the Sub-Pilot Scale Carbonator,”
I&EC Research, 51, 9938 – 9944 (2012).
Li, F., Zeng L. and L. S. Fan, “Coal-Direct Chemical Looping
Gasification for Hydrogen Production: Reactor Modeling and
Process Simulation,” Energy and Fuels, 26, 3680-3690 (2012).
Distinguished Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University,
Mechanical Engineering Department (March 30, 2012);
Liang Zeng, Siwei Luo, Deepak Sridhar and L. S. Fan,
“Chemical Looping Processes – Particle Characterization, Ionic
L.S. Fan
Current Grants/Contracts
Iowa State University, Mechanical Engineering Department
(April 2, 2013); University of Alabama, Chemical Engineering
Department (April 24-26, 2013).
Distinguished University Professor and C. John Easton
Professor in Engineering, PhD, West Virginia University, 1975.
Fluidization, multiphase flow, particulate reaction engineering,
energy and environmental engineering, process tomography.
Awards and Honors
Andrew Tong, Deepak Sridhar, Zhenchao Sun, Hyung R. Kim,
Liang Zeng, Fei Wang, Mandar V. Kathe, Siwei Luo, Yuhao
Sun and Liang Shih Fan, “Continuous High Purity Hydrogen
Generation from a Syngas Chemical Looping 25KWth Sub-Pilot
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Unit with 100% Carbon Capture,” Fuel, 103, 495 - 505 (2013).
T.C. Chandrasekera, A. Wang, D.J. Holland, Q. Marashdeh, M.
Pore, F. Wang, A.J. Sederman, L.-S. Fan, L.F. Gladden and J.S.
Dennis, “A comparison of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and
Electrical Capacitance Tomography: An Air Jet through a Bed
of Particles,” Powder Technology, 227, 86-95 (2012).
Liang Zeng, Mandar Kathe, Elena Chung and Liang- Shih
Fan, “Some Remarks on Direct Solid Fuel Combustion Using
Chemical Looping Processes,” Current Opinion in Chemical
Engineering, 1 (3), 290-295 (2012).
Wang, Fei; Marashdeh, Qussai, Wang, Aining and Fan, LiangShih, “ECVT Imaging of 3-D Flow Structures and Solid
Concentration Distribution in a Riser and Bend of a Gas-Solid
Circulating Fluidized Bed,” I&EC Research, 51, 10968-10976
(2012).
Liang Zeng, Siewei Luo, Fanxing Li and Liang-Shih Fan,
“Chemical Looping Technology and Its Applications in Fossil
Fuel Conversion and CO2 Capture,” Scientia Sinica Chimica,
42(3), 260 – 281 (2012).
Zhenchao Sun and Liang-Shih Fan, “Physical and Chemical
Mechanism for Increased Surface Area and Pore Volume of
CaO in Water Hydration,” I&EC Research, 51, 10793-10799
(2012).
Sun, Zhenchao, Zhou, Qiang and Liang-Shih Fan, “Reactive
Solid Surface Morphology Variation via Ionic Diffusion,”
Langmuir, 28, 11827-11833 (2012).
Current Grants/Contracts
$400,000 Fan, L.S. (2012-2015)
“Moving Bed Heat Exchanger Study for Solar Energy Chemical
Looping System Application,” National Renewable Energy Lab
(NREL).
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$5,000,000 Fan, L.S. (2010-2013)
Pilot Demonstration of the Carbon Negative Syngas Chemical
Looping Process, Advanced Research Projects Agency, Energy
(ARPA-E).
$100,000 Fan, L.S. (2011-2014)
Study of Particle Rotation Effect in Gas-Solid Flows Using
Direct Numerical Simulation with a Lattice Boltzmann
Method, Department of Energy (DOE).
$5,000,000 Fan, L.S. (2010-2013)
Pilot Demonstration of the Carbon Negative Syngas Chemical
Looping Process, Ohio Coal Development Office (OCDO),
Industries and University.
$1,000 Fan, L.S. (2010-2013)
Undergraduate Research Award, Dow Chemicals.
Shinar, Guy and Martin Feinberg, “Concordant Chemical
Reaction Networks,” Mathematical Biosciences, 240, 92-113
(2012).
$3,900,000 Fan, L.S. (2012-2014)
Syngas Chemical Looping Demonstration at NCCC – II,
Department of Energy (DOE-ARPA-E) and OCDO.
Shinar, Guy and Martin Feinberg, “Concordant Chemical
Reaction Networks and the Species-Reaction Graph,”
Mathematical Biosciences, 241, 1-23 (2013).
$1,400,000 Fan, L.S. (co-PI)(2012-2013)
CDCL- Phase I Demonstration, Department of Energy.
Software
$3,160,143 Fan, L.S. (2009-2012)
Coal-Direct Chemical Looping Retrofit to Pulverized Coal
Power Plants for In-Situ CO2 Capture, Department of Energy
(DOE), OCDO.
$299,819 Fan, L.S. (2009-2012)
Process/Equipment Co-simulation on Syngas Chemical
Looping Process, Department of Energy (DOE).
$300,000 Fan, L.S. (co-PI) 2012-2015
Microfluidics for Cell Entrapment, National Science
Foundation.
$160,000 Fan, L.S. (2010-2012)
Coal Feeder Development for the Coal-Direct Chemical
Looping Process, Ohio Coal Development Office (OCDO).
$300,000 Fan, L.S. (2012-2015)
Biomass Tar Interaction with Metal Oxide Oxygen Carriers,
National Science Foundation.
$160,000 Fan, L.S. (2010-2012)
Quantum Calculation to Predict Oxygen Migration Pathway,
Ohio Coal Development Office (OCDO).
$160,000 Fan, L.S. (2010-2012)
CCR Process for CO2 and SO2 capture: Investigation of
Realistic Regeneration and Reactivation Conditions, Ohio Coal
Development Office (OCDO).
$100,000 Fan, L.S. (2011-2013)
Hydrator Design for CCR Process, Ohio Coal Development
Office (OCDO).
$202,444 Fan, L.S. (2010-2013)
Integrated Curriculum for Smart Power Engineering,
Department of Energy (DOE).
Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria (May, 2013).
Referreed Papers
Phillipp Ellison, Haixia Ji, Daniel Knight, and Martin Feinberg,
The Chemical Reaction Network Toolbox, Version 2.2, 2012.
http://www.chbmeng.ohio-state.edu/~feinberg/crntwin/
Current Grants and Projects
$381,826 Feinberg, Martin (2008-2013)
Collaborative Research: Multistability in Biological Networks,
National Institutes of Health - General Medical Sciences.
$340,718 Feinberg, Martin (2010-2013)
Design Principles of Biochemical Reaction Networks,
Emerging Frontiers, National Science Foundation.
Martin Feinberg
Richard Morrow Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering and Professor of Mathematics, PhD, Princeton
University, 1968. Complex chemical systems, behavior of
chemical and biochemical reaction networks.
Awards and Honors
Lisa Hall
Ass
Lisa Hall
Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2009. Polymer theory and simulation, ion-containing
polyomers, polymer nanocomposites.
Referreed Papers
W.S. Winston Ho
Professor, PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1971.
Molecularly based membrane separations, fuel-cell fuel
processing and membranes, transport phenomena in
membranes, separations with chemical reaction, reverse
osmosis.
Hall, Lisa M.; Seitz, Michelle, E; Winey, Karen I.; et al. "Ionic
Aggregate Structure in Ionomer Melts: Effect of Molecular
Architecture on Aggregates and the Ionomer Peak," Journal of
the American Chemical Society, 134, (1) (Jan 2012): 574-587.
Awards and Honors
Hall, Lisa M.; Stevens, Mark, J; Frischknecht, Amalie
L. "Dynamics of Model lonomer Melts of Various
Architectures."Macromolecules, 45, (19), (Oct 2012): 80978108.
Invited John A. Quinn Lecturer in Chemical Engineering,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (April 25, 2012).
Awards and Honors
H.C. "Slip" Slider Professorship, The Ohio State University
(2012).
Employee Recognition Award to the Postdoc Professional
Development Program team, Sandia National Laboratories
(2012).
Lawrence B. Evans Award in Chemical Engineering Practice,
American Institute of Chemical Engineers, (2012).
Books and Book Chapters
Bai, He, and Ho, W.S. Winston, “Carbon Dioxide-Selective
Facilitated Transport Membranes for Hydrogen Purification,”
in Production and Purification of Ultraclean Transportation
Fuels, Y. H. Hu, X. L. Ma, E. B. Fox, and X. Guo, eds., ACS
Symposium Series, Washington, DC, Vol. 1088, Chap. 7 (2011).
Vilt, Michael E., and Ho, W.S. Winston, “Applications and
Advances with Supported Liquid Membranes,” in Membrane
Technologies and Applications, K. Mohanty and M. K. Purkait,
eds., Taylor & France Group, LLC, Boca Raton, FL, Chap. 16,
pp. 279-303 (2012).
Invited to give Institute Lecture at the Austria Institute of
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Mandal, Bishnupada, and Ho, W.S. Winston, “Carbon
Dioxide-Selective Membranes,” in Membrane Technologies
and Applications, K. Mohanty and M. K. Purkait, eds., Taylor
& France Group, LLC, Boca Raton, FL, Chap. 21, pp. 381-396
(2012).
Refereed Papers
Ho, W.S. Winston, and Li, Kang, “Recent Advances in
Separations,” Curr. Opinion Chem. Eng., 1 (2), 1-3 (2012).
Zhao, Yanan, and Ho, W.S. Winston, “Steric Hindrance Effect
on Amine Demonstrated in Solid Polymer Membranes for CO2
Transport,” Membr. Sci., 415-416, 132-138 (2012).
Ramasubramanian, Kartik, Verweij, Hendrik, and Ho, W.S.
Winston, “Membrane Processes for Carbon Capture from
Coal-Fired Power Plant Flue Gas: A Modeling and Cost Study”,
J. Membr. Sci., 421-422, 299-310 (2012).
Zhao, Lin, Chang, Philip C.-Y., Yen, Chi, and Ho, W.S.
Winston, “High-Flux and Fouling-Resistant Membranes for
Brackish Water Desalination,” J. Membr. Sci., 425-426, 1-10
(2013).
Zhao, Lin, Chang, Philip C.-Y., and Ho, W.S. Winston,
“High-Flux Reverse Osmosis Membranes Incorporated with
Hydrophilic Additives for Brackish Water Desalination,”
Desalination, 10.1016/j.desal.2012.07.020, in press (2012).
Ho, W.S. Winston, “Membranes, Methods of Making
Membranes, and Methods of Separating Gases Using
Membranes,” U. S. Patent 8,277,932 (October 2, 2012).
Ho, W.S. Winston, “Membranes, Methods of Making
Membranes, and Methods of Separating Gases Using
Membranes,” U. S. Patent Application (Continuation) No.
13/164,022 (filed June 20, 2011); U. S. Patent Application
Public. No. US-2011-0269906 (November 3, 2011); U. S. Patent
Allowed (June 4, 2012).
Applications, OSURF Project No. 60031535.
$150,000 Ho, W.S. Winston (2011-2013)
National Science Foundation, Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen
Sulfide Clean-up of Gases, OSURF Project No. 60030576.
$2,999,999 Ho, W.S. Winston, and Dutta, Prabir (2011-2014)
NETL, Department of Energy, Novel Inorganic/Polymer
Composite Membranes for CO2 Capture, OSURF Project No.
60032950.
Ho, W.S. Winston, “Water Permeable Membranes and
Methods of Making Water Permeable Membranes,” U. S.
Non-provisional Patent Application 12/174,951 (filed July 17,
2008); U. S. Patent Application Public. No. US-2008-0296225
(December 4, 2008); U. S. Patent Allowed (February 24, 2012).
$53,969 Ho, W.S. Winston (2007-2012)
Ohio State University Residual Funds, Polymer Membranes,
OSURF Project No. 60015086.
Ie, Pauline S., Petros, Dave, Stinner, Deborah, H, Phelan, Paul,
Larry, Hamaker, Bruce, Koelling, Kurt W., Vodovotz,Yael,
"Comparison of the Gelatinization Behavior of Organic
and Conventional Spelt Starches Assessed by Thermal and
Rheological Analyses," Journal of Agriculture and Food
Chemistry, 60 (36), 9229-9235 (2012).
Refereed Papers
Graphenes,” ACS Nnao, 6(11), 10178 (2012).
Zhihua Guo, Adam C. Burley, Kurt W. Koelling, Isamu Kusaka,
L. James Lee, David L. Tomasko, "CO2 bubble nucleation in
polystyrene: Experimental and modeling studies," Journal of
Applied Polymer Science, 125, 2170-2186 (2012).
B. Yu, S-H Hsu, C. Zhou, X. Wang, M. Cavanaugh Terp, Y.
Wu, L. Teng, Y. Mao, F. Wang, W. Xue, S.T. Jacob, K. Ghoshal,
R.J. Lee and L.J. Lee, “Novel Lipid Nanoparticle Design for
Delivery of Small Interfering RNA to Liver and Liver Tumor,”
Biomaterials, 33, 5924-5934 (2012).
Manish Talreja, Isamu Kusaka, David L. Tomasko, "Analyzing
surface tension in higher alkanes and their CO2 mixtures,"
Fluid Phase Equilibria, 319, 67-76 (2012).
Current Grants/Contracts
$50,000 Kurt Koelling (2008-2012)
Extensional flow induced orientation and rheology of polymer/
carbon nanotube composite, Toray Industries.
Current Projects and Grants
$129,000 Ho, W.S. Winston (2010-2012)
Office of Naval Research, Fouling-Resistant High-Flux Water
Desalination Membranes. OSURF Project No. 60023857.
nucleation in polystyrene: Experimental and modeling studies,"
Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 125 (3), 2170-2186,
(2012).
Kurt Koelling
Professor, PhD, Princeton University, 1993. Polymer processing
and rheology, polymer nanocomposites, bio-based Polymers,
micro/nanofluidics.
Referreed Papers
C. Zhou, Y. Mao, Y. Sugimoto, N. Kanthamneni, B. Yu, R.W.
Brueggemeier, L.J. Lee and R.J. Lee, “SPANosomes as Delivery
Vehicles for Small Interfering RNA (siRNA),” Molecular
Pharmaceutics, 9(2), 201-10 (2012).
$48,000 Yael Vodovotz, Kurt Koelling (2011-2012)
The use of PHBV/PLA Biodegradable Polymers for Food
Packaging Films, OARDC – New Enterprise Grant.
$50,000 Yael Vodovotz, Katrina Cornish, Kurt Koelling
(2012-2013). Biobased PHBV/Hevea Natural Rubber Blends
for Packaging Applications, OARDC.
L. James Lee
Y. Wu, W. Duan, G.A. Otterson, L.J. Lee and S.P. Nana-Sinkam,
“miRs as Biomarkers for Survival for Early-Stage Lung Cancer,”
Personalized Medicine, 9(3), 329-332 (2012).
Y. Zhang, C. Zhou, K. J. Kwak, X. Wang, B. Yung, L.J. Lee, Y.
Wang, P. G. Wang and R. J. Lee, "Efficient siRNA Delivery using
a Polyamidoamine Dendrimer with a Modified Pentaerythritol
Core," Pharmaceutical Research, 29(6), 1627-1636 (2012).
Professor, PhD, University of Minnesota, 1979. Polymer and
composite engineering, micro/nanotechnology, BioMEMS/
NEMS.
$134,029 Ho, W.S. Winston (2009-2013)
National Science Foundation, Center for Affordable
Nanoengineering of Polymer Biomedical Devices, NSEC
Project sponsoring 1 Ph.D. Student, with L. James Lee (PI),
OSURF Project No. 60030348 & 60028680.
Modi, Sunny, Koelling, Kurt, Vodovotz,Yael, "Miscibility of
poly (3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) with high
molecular weight poly(lactic acid) blends determined by
thermal analysis," Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 124 (4),
3074-3081 (2012).
Books and Book Chapters
Ho, W.S. Winston, “Water Permeable Membranes and
Methods of Making Water Permeable Membranes,” U. S. Patent
8,196,754 (June 12, 2012).
$675,000 Ho, W.S. Winston (2011-2015)
Office of Naval Research /DJW Technology, LLC, Advanced
Hydrogen Reformate Stream Purifier for Fuel Cell
Boehm, Michael W., Koelling, Kurt W., "Analysis of a liquidassisted molding process for coating microchannels with an
ultraviolet curable polymer," Polymer Engineering and Science,
52 (7), 1590-1599 (2012).
Refereed Papers
Patents
$302,000 Ho, W.S. Winston (2010-2013)
National Science Foundation, Advanced CO2- and H2SSelective Membranes, OSURF Project No. 60025821.
Zhao, Yanan, and Ho, W.S. Winston, “CO2-Selective
Membranes Containing Sterically Hindered Amines for CO2/
H2 Separation,” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., ACS ASAP doi:10.1021/
ie301397, in press (2012).
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Guo, Zhihua Burley, Adam C, Koelling, Kurt W., Kusaka,
Isamu, Lee, L, James; Tomasko, David L, "CO2 bubble
B. Yu, L.J. Lee and R.B. Lee, “Lipid-Based Nanoparticles for
siRNA Delivery,” in The Nanobiotechjnolgy Handbook, edited
by Y. Xie, Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, Chapter 24, 2012.
Isamu Kusaka
Associate Professor, PhD, Caltech, 1998. Statistical mechanics.
F. Yang, X. Zhang, A. Maiseyeu, G. Michai, R. Yasmeen,
D. DiSilvestro, K.S., Maurya, M. Periasamy, V. Bergdall, C.
Sen, S. Roy, L. J. Lee, S. Rajagopalan, and O. Ziouzenkova,”
Encapsulated Thermogenic Cells Reduce Obesity in Targeted
Depots,” Biomaterials, 33(22), 5638-5649 (2012).
Y. Wu, L. Li, Y. Mao and L.J. Lee, "Static Micromixer - Coaxial
Electrospray Synthesis of Theranostic Lipoplexes," ACS Nano,
6(3), 2245-2252 (2012).
W. Huang, X. Ouyang and L.J. Lee, “High-Performance
Nanopapers Based on Benzenesulfonic Functionalized
M.C. Terp, F. Bauer, Y. Sugimoto, B. Yu, R.W. Brueggemeier, L.J.
Lee and R.J. Lee, ”Differential Efficacy of DOTAP Enantiomers
for siRNA Delivery In Vitro,” International Journal of
Pharmacy, 430(1-2), 328-334 (2012).
F. Wang, H. He and L.J. Lee, “Solid State Synthesis of Patterned
PNIPAAm Surface for Cell Capture, Separation and Release,”
Analytical Chemistry, 84(21), 9439-9445 (2012).
C. Zhou, Y. Zhang, L.J. Lee and R.J. Lee, “Synthesis and
Characterization of Lipoidal Amine-based Nanocarrier
Formulations for Small Interfering RNA Delivery,” Therapeutic
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Delivery, 3(6), 715-723 (2012).
184 (2012).
Current Grants/Contracts
K.S. Parikh, S.S. Rao, H.M. Ansari, L.B. Zimmerman, L.J. Lee,
S.A. Akbar and J.O. Winter, “Ceramic Nanopatterned Surfaces
to Explore the Effects of Nanotopography on Cell Attachment,”
Materials Science and Engineering C, 32, 2469-2475 (2012).
B. Yu, Y. Mao, L. Bai, S. May, A. Ramanunni, Y. Jin, X. Mo,
C. Carolyn, K.K. Chan, D. Jarjoura, G. Marcucci, R.J. Lee,
J.C. Byrd, L.J. Lee and N. Muthusamy,“ Liposomal Targeted
Delivery Overcomes Off-target Immunostimulatory
Effects of RNA Oligonucleotide,” Blood, doi: 10.1182/
blood-2012-01-407742 (2012).
$12,900,000 Lee, L. James (2009-2014)
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for Affordable
Nanoengineering of Polymer Biomedical Devices-Phase II,
National Science and Foundation.
D. Gallego-Perez, N. Higuita-Castro, R.K. Reen, M. PalacioOchoa, S. Sharma, L.J. Lee, J.J. Lannutti, D.J. Hansford and K.J.
Gooch, “Micro/Nanoscale Technologies for the Development
of Hormone-expressing Islet-like Cell Clusters,” Biomedical
Microdevices, 14, 779-789 (2012).
R. Mulyanal, E. Cabreral, J.M. Castro and L.J. Lee, “Injection
Molding of Water Containing Thermoplastic Polyolefin,”
International Polymer Processing, 27, 1-9 (2012).
S. Awad, H.M. Chen, B.P. Grady, A. Paul, W.T. Ford, L.J.
Lee and Y.C. Jean, “Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy
of Polystyrene Filled with Carbon Nanomaterials,”
Macromolecules, 45, 933-940 (2012).
A. Burley, Z. Gao, L.J. Lee, K.W. Koelling, I. Kusaka and
D.L. Tomasko, “CO2 Bubble Nucleation in Polystyrene:
Experimental and Modeling Studies,” Journal of Applied
Polymer Science, 125(3), 2170-2186 (2012).
S. Movva, D. Guerra, X. Ouyang, J. Castro and L.J. Lee, “Cure
Kinetics of Carbon Nanofiber/Vinyl Ester Nanocomposites at
Low Temperature,” Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 125,
2223–2230 (2012).
H. He, X. Zhang, B. Yu, F. Wang, E. Luedke, W.E. Carson and
L.J. Lee, “Multifunctional and Biodegradable Nanoporous
Capsule for PC12 Cell-Based Therapies,” Journal of Controlled
Release, doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2012.11.020 (2012).
C.J. Hickey, S. Schwind, H.S. Radomska, A.M. Dorrance, A.M.
Eiring, R. Santhanam, A. Mishra, Y-Z Wu, H. Alachkar, K.
Maharry, D. Nicolet, K. Mrózek, A. Walker, S.P. Whitman,
H. Becker, D. Perrotti, L-C Wu, R. Baiocchi, X. Zhao, M.A.
Caligiuri, J.C. Byrd, T.A. Fehniger, R. Vij, W. Blum, L.J. Lee,
C.M. Croce, C.D. Bloomfield, R. Garzon and G. Marcucci,
“Lenalidomide-mediated Enhanced Translation of C/
EBPα-p30 Protein Upregulates Expression of the Antileukemic microRNA-181a in Acute Myeloid Leukemia,” Blood,
doi:10.1182/blood-2012-05-428573 (2012).
E. Cabrera, R. Mulyana, L.J. Lee and J. Castro, “The Use
of Pressurized Water Pellets and Supercritical Nitrogen in
Injection Molding,” Journal of Applied Polymer Science, doi:
10.1002/app.37652 (2012).
Patents
C. Zhang, B. Zhu and L.J. Lee, “Bimodal Polystyrene Foams
Using Carbon Dioxide and Water as Co-blowing Agents,”
Polymer, 53, 2435-2442 (2012).
L.J. Lee, G. Zhou and X. Cao, “A Method of Preparing a
Composite with Disperse Long Fibers and Nanoparticles,” U.S.
Patent 8,143,337, March 27 (2012).
F. Yang, S. Ghosh and L.J. Lee, “Size and Rate Dependent
Constitutive Model of Polystyrene Thin Films from Molecular
Dynamics Simulations,” Computational Mechanics, 50(2), 169-
A. Epstein, L.J. Lee and N-R Chiou, “Aligned Nnaostructured
Polymers,” U.S. Patent 8,293,140, October 23 (2012).
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$2,886,763 Lee, L. James (co-PI)(2008-2013)
Targeted Lipopolyplexes for Oligonucleotide Delivery to AML,
National Institute of Health.
$419,375 Lee, L. James (co-PI) (2011-2013)
Therapeutic Delivery of Anti-miR Oligos to Hepatocellular
Cancer, National Institutes of Health.
Umit Ozkan
College of Engineering Distinguished Professor, PhD, Iowa
State University, 1984. Catalysis, electro-catalysis and catalytic
materials, application of catalysis in the areas of energy
conversion and emission control.
$275,000 Lee, L. James (2011-2012)
New Bio-nanotechnology Methods for Toxicity Evaluation of
Industrial Nanoparticles, National Science and Foundation/
EPA.
Awards and Honors
$95,000 Lee, L. James (2011-2012)
Polymer Nanocellular Fibers Prepared via Supercritical Carbon
Dioxide Extrusion, Taiwan Textile Research Institute.
Honored with a Special Award symposium of the American
Chemical Society (August 2012).
$35,000 Lee, L. James (2012-2013)
Polymer Foams for Thermal Insulation, Owens Corning.
$30,000 Lee, L. James ( 2012-2013)
Graphene Based Polymer Nanocomposites and Coating, LCY.
American Chemical Society, Energy and Fuels Division
Distinguished Researcher Award (2012).
OSU Mortar Board Senior Honor Society Mentoring
Recognition (2012).
Refereed Papers
Von Deak, D., Singh, D., Biddinger, E.J., King, J.C., Bayram, B.,
Miller, J.T., Ozkan, U.S., “Investigation of sulfur poisoning of
CNx oxygen reduction catalysts for PEM fuel cells,” Journal of
Catalysis. 285, 145-151 (2012).
Von Deak, D. Singh, D., King, J.C., Ozkan, U.S., “Von Deak,
D. Singh, D., King, J.C., Ozkan, U.S., “Use of carbon monoxide
and cyanide to probe the active sites on nitrogen-doped carbon
catalysts for oxygen reduction,” Applied Catalysis, B. 113-114,
126-133 (2012).
Song, H., Zhang, L., Ozkan, U.S., “The effect of Surface Acidic
and Basic Properties on Ethanol Steam Reforming Performance
of Co-based Catalysts,” Topics in Catalysis. 55, 1324-1331
(2012).
“Catalyst systems and uses thereof for CO removal,” U.S.
Patent 8,226,918, July 2012.
Gawade, P., Bayram, B., Ozkan, U.S., “Preferential oxidation
of CO (PROX) over CoOx/CeO2 in Hydrogen-rich Streams:
Effect of Cobalt Loading,” Applied Catalysis B. 128, 21-30
(2012).
$990,000 Ozkan, U.S. (2007-2013)
Investigation of the nature of active sites on heteroatomcontaining carbon nano-structures for oxygen reduction
reaction, US Department of Energy-Basic Energy Sciences.
Gawade,P., Alexander, A.M., Clark, R. and Ozkan, U.S., “The
role of oxidation catalyst in dual catalyst after-treatment of
lean-burn natural gas engine exhaust”,” Catalysis Today. 197,
127-136 (2012).
$570,000 Ozkan, U.S. (2009-2012)
Natural Gas Engine After-treatment, Caterpillar, Inc.
Soykal, I.I., Sohn, H., Bayram, B., Gawade, P. , Miller, J.T.,
Ozkan, U.S., “Ethanol steam reforming over Co/CeO2 catalysts:
Investigation of the effect of ceria morphology, ” Applied
Catalysis A. 449 47-58 (2012).
Choi, H., Fuller, A., Davis, J., Wielgus, C., Ozkan, U.S., Cedoped strontium cobalt ferrite perovskites as cathode catalysts
for solid oxide fuel cells: Effect of dopant concentration”
Applied Catalysis B. 127, 336-341 (2012).
Current Projects and Grants
$15,000 Ozkan, U.S. (2011-2012)
SBIR: Novel Catalysts Based on Doped Carbon Nano-Fibers,
NSF, pH Matter, LLC.
$160,000 Ozkan, U.S. (2010-2012)
Coal-based SOFC, Ohio Coal Development Office.
$450,000 Ozkan, U.S. (Co-PI: Anne Co) (2012-2015)
Controlling Selectivity in Electro-catalytically Assisted Alkane
Dehydrogenation, National Science Foundation.
Soykal, I.I., Sohn, H., Ozkan, U.S., “Effect of Support Particle
Size in Steam Reforming of Ethanol over Co/CeO2 Catalysts”
ACS Catalysis.2(1) 2335-2348 (2012).
Gawade, P., Alexander, A.M., Silver, R., and Ozkan, U.S.,
“Effect of engine exhaust parameters on the hydrothermal
stability of hydrocarbon-selective catalytic reduction (SCR)
catalysts for lean-burn systems,” Energy and Fuels, 26(12)
7084-7091 (2012).
Patents
Ozkan, Umit S.; Holmgreen, Erik M.; Yung, Matthew M.,
Andre Palmer
Professor, PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, 1998.
Bioengineering & hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers.
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Awards and Honors
The Ohio State University College of Engineering Harrison
Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education (2012).
Referreed Papers
N. Zhang and A. F. Palmer, “Liposomes surface conjugated
with human hemoglobin target delivery to macrophages,”
Biotechnology & Bioengineering 109: 823-9 (2012).
Y. Zhou, P. Cabrales and A. F. Palmer, “Simulation of NO and
O2 transport facilitated by polymerized hemoglobin solutions
in an arteriole that takes into account wall shear stress-induced
NO production,” Biophysical Chemistry 162: 45-60 (2012).
J. Elmer and A. F. Palmer, “Earthworm erythrocruorin: A
promising natural blood substitute,” Journal of Functional
Biomaterials 3: 49-60 (2012).
J. Elmer, K. Zorc, S. Rameez, N. Zhang, P. Cabrales and A.
F. Palmer, “Hypervolemic infusion of lumbricus terrestris
erythrocruorin purified by tangential flow filtration,”
Transfusion 52: 1729-1740 (2012).
S. Rameez, R. P. Patel, J. Honavar, U. Banerjee, J. Fontes, N.
Guzman, M. E. Paulaitis and A. F. Palmer, “Encapsulation
of hemoglobin inside liposomes surface conjugated with
poly(ethylene glycol) attenuates their reactions with gaseous
ligands and regulates nitric oxide dependent vasodilation,”
Biotechnology Progress 28: 636-645 (2012).
P. Cabrales, S. Rameez and A. F. Palmer, “Hemoglobin
encapsulated poly(ethylene glycol) surface conjugated vesicles
attenuates vasoactivity of cell-free hemoglobin,” Current Drug
Discovery Technologies 9: 224-234 (2012).
Z. Li, X. Guo, A. F. Palmer, H. Das, J. Guan, “High Efficiency
Matrix Modulus-Induced Cardiac Differentiation of Human
Mesenchymal Stem Cells inside a Thermosensitive Hydrogel,”
Acta Biomaterialia 8: 3586-3595 (2012).
S. Rameez, U. Banerjee, J. Fontes, A. Roth and A. F. Palmer,
“The reactivity of polymersome encapsulated hemoglobin with
physiologically important gaseous ligands: oxygen, carbon
monoxide and nitric oxide,” Marcomolecules 45: 2385-2389
(2012).
Current Grants/Contracts
T. J. Styslinger, N. Zhang, V. Bhatt, N. Pettit, A. F. Palmer
and P. G. Wang, “Site-selective glycosylation of hemoglobin
with variable molecular weight oligosaccharides: a potential
alternative to PEGylation,” Journal of the American Chemical
Society 134: 7507-7515 (2012).
$530,548 Palmer, Andre (Co-PI; John Lannutti, PI/Co-PI;
Dave Farson, Co-PI and Mariano
Viapiano, Co-PI;) (2010-2013). Nanofiber-based sensors for
oxygen determination in model glioblastomas)
National Science Foundation, Grant: CBET-1033991.
J. H. Baek, Y. Zhou, D. R. Harris, D. J. Schaer, A. F. Palmer
and P. W. Buehler, “Down selection of polymerized bovine
hemoglobins for use as oxygen releasing therapeutics,”
Toxicological Sciences 127: 567-581 (2012).
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$1,875,000 Palmer, Andre (2006-2013)
Mechanically stable blood substitutes, Agency: National
Institutes of Health Grant: R01HL078840.
Awards and Honors
Ohio State University Early Innovator Award (2012).
Refereed Papers
Michael Paulaitis
Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar, PhD, University of
Illinois, 1976. Molecular thermodynamics, role of hydration
in biological organization, self-assembly and molecular
recognition, multi-scale modeling of biological interactions.
Awards and Honors
OSU College of Engineering Harrison Faculty Award for
Excellence in Engineering Education (2012).
Referreed Papers
Rameez, S., R. Patel, N. Guzman, J. Honavar, U. Banerjee,
J. Fontes, M. E. Paulaitis and A. F. Palmer, “Encapulation
of hemoglobin inside liposome surface conjugated with
poly(ethylene glycol) attenuates their reactions with gaseous
ligands and regulates nitric oxide dependent vasodilation,”
Biotechn. Progr. 28:636 (2012).
M. Hamsa Priya, S. Merchant, D. Asthagiri and M. E. Paulaitis,
“Quasi-Chemical Theory of Hydrophobic Preferential
Interactions,” J. Phys. Chem. B 116:6506 (2012).
Hok-Hei Tam, D. Asthagiri and M. E. Paulaitis, “Coordination
state probabilities and the solvation free energy of Zn2+ in
aqueous methanol solutions,” J. Chem. Phys. 137:164504
(2012).
James Rathman
Professor, PhD, University of Oklahoma, 1987. Molecular
informatics, interfacial phenomena, molecular self-assembly.
Refereed Papers
Leist M., Lidbury B.A., Yang C., Hayden P.J., Kelm J.M.,
Ringeissen S., Detroyer A., Meunier J.R., Rathman J.F., Jackson
G.R., Stolper G., Hasiwa N.,“Novel technologies and an overall
strategy to allow hazard assessment and risk prediction of
chemicals, cosmetics, and drugs with animal-free methods,”
ALTEX 2012, 29(4), 373-88.
Current Grants/Contracts
$522,000 Rathman, James. Waldman, James, Dutta, Prabir
(PI) (2011-2014)
Project Title: Impact of the physiocochemical properties of
engineered nanomaterials on their cellular uptake and potential
toxicity in the gastrointestinal tract environment. National
Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
$148,000 Rathman, James (2011-2013)
Project Title: Development and implementation of
chemoinformatics and statistical methods for assessing
chemical toxicity evidence from multiple sources, Altamira,
LLC
David Tomasko
Professor, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
1992. Molecular thermodynamics, supercritical fluid
processing, polymer processing.
Refereed Papers
A. Burley, Z. Gao, L.J. Lee, K.W. Koelling, I. Kusaka and
D.L. Tomasko, “CO2 Bubble Nucleation in Polystyrene:
Experimental and Modeling Studies,” Journal of Applied
Polymer Science, 125(3), 2170-2186 (2012).
Manish Talreja, Isamu Kusaka, David L. Tomasko, “Analyzing surface tension in higher alkanes and their CO2 mixtures,”
Fluid Phase Equilibria, 319, 67-76 (2012).
S. Suri, G. Ruan, J. Winter, C. Schmidt, "Microparticles and
Nanoparticles," Buddy Ratner, Ed. Biomaterials Science, 3rd
Edition, Elsevier, London, UK (2012).
G. Ruan, J.O. Winter (Invited), "Chemical Engineering at
the Intersection of Nanotechnology and Biology," Chemical
Engineering Progress, December 2012, 36-40, (2012).
K.D. Mahajan, G. Vieira, G. Ruan, B.L. Miller, M. Lustberg, J.J.
Chalmers, R. Sooryakumar, J.O. Winter (Invited), "MagDotNanoconveyer Assay for Detection and Isolation of Molecular
Biomarkers," Chemical Engineering Progress, December 2012,
41-51, (2012).
J. Xu, J. Winter, M. Zborowski, J. Chalmers, "Simultaneous,
single particle, magnetization and size measurements of
micron sized, magnetic particles," Journal of Magnetism and
Magnetic Materials, 324(24), 4189-4199, (2012).
K.S. Parikh, S.S. Rao, H. Ansari, L.B. Zimmerman, L.J. Lee,
S.A. Akbar, J.O. Winter, "Ceramic Nanopatterned Surfaces to
Explore the Effects of Nanotopography on Cell Attachment,"
Materials Science and Engineering C, 32, 2469–2475, (2012).
N. Han, J. Johnson, P. Bradley, K.S. Parikh, J.J. Lannutti, J.O.
Winter, "Cell Attachment to Hydrogel-Electrospun Fiber Mat
Composite Materials," Journal of Functional Biomaterials, 3(3),
497-513, (2012).
Jessica Winter
Associate Professor, PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2004.
Bionanotechnology, neural biomimetics, drug delivery, neural
prostheses.
S.S. Rao, S. Bentil, J. DeJesus, J. Larison, A. Hissong, R. Dupaix,
A. Sarkar, J.O. Winter, "Inherent Interfacial Mechanical
Gradients in 3D Hydrogels Influence Tumor Cell Behaviors,"
PLoS One, 7(4), e35852, (2012).
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N. Han, J. Johnson, J.J. Lannutti, J.O. Winter, "HydrogelElectrospun Fiber Composite Materials for Hydrophilic Protein
Release," Journal of Controlled Release, 158(1), 165-170,
(2012).
Current Grants/Contracts
$1,700,000 Winter, J.O., Kner, P., Brainerd, B., Yang, G.,
Alpert, C.L. (2010-2013) ($579,527) QSTORM: Activatable
Quantum Dots for Super-Resolution, In Vivo Imaging,
National Science Foundation.
$560,143 Hammel, P.C., Myers, R., Winter, J.O., Woodward,
P., Padture, N. (2010-2012). MRI: Acquisition of High Field
Physical Properties Measurement System with Cryogenic
AFM/MFM, National Science Foundation.
$50,000 Wheatley, G. (EdHeads); Olesik, S., Winter,
J.O. (2011-2014). Nanotech for High School Students,
Entertainment Software Association Foundation.
$2,000 Winter, J.O., Ruan, G., Wyslouzil, B. (2011-2012)
Micelle-Mediated Self-assembly of Multi-functional Hybrid
Nanoparticles, Institute for Materials Research (OSU).
$2,000 Akbar, S., Winter, J.O. (2012-2013)
Self Patterning of Zirconia Substrate Surfaces for Biological
Applications, Institute for Materials Research (OSU)
Gierach, I., Li, J., Wu, W.-Y. & Wood, D. W., “Engineered
Human Thyroid Receptor α-1 and β-1 Biosensors for Screening
TR Subtype-Selective Ligands,” FEBS Open Bio, 2, 247–253,
(2012).
Current Grants/Contracts
$400,000 Wood, David W., Lease, Richard. (2012-2014)
Riboswitch-sRNA for Dual Transcript Control by a Ligand,
National Science Foundation.
Services Winter, J.O., Bachand, G. (2011-2013)
Fluorescent-Magnetic Nanocomposites: A New Tool for
Manipulating the Cytoskeleton, Department of
Energy (Sandia National Labs).
$313,433 Winter, J.O., Chalmers, J.J., Brown, A. (2009-2012).
Fluorescent-Magnetic Nanomanipulators for Cytoskeletal
Mechanical Investigations, National Science
Foundation.
$300,000 Winter, J.O., Sarkar, A. (2009-2012)
Brain Mimetic Materials for Cancer Cell Migration Studies,
National Science Foundation
$69,105 Winter, J.O. (2011-2012)
Magnetic- Fluorescent Nanoparticles for Cellular and
Molecular Separations, National Science Foundation
(OSU NSEC).
$50,000 Winter, J.O., Ruan, G., Melnik, K. (2012)
ICorps: Next Generation ‘MultiDot’ Quantum Dots for
Biological Imaging, National Science Foundation.
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Professor, PhD, Caltech, 1992. Aerosol science, nucleation,
nanoparticle growth and structure, biomedical applications of
aerosols.
David Wood
Refereed Papers
Refereed Papers
Alexandra Manka, Harshad Pathak, Shinobu Tanimura, Judith
Wölk, Reinhard Strey, and Barbara E. Wyslouzil, Freezing water
in no-man’s land, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., (2012). DOI:
10.1039/c2cp23116f.
Shi, C., Qing Meng, Q. & Wood, D. W., “A dual ELP tagged
split intein system for non-chromatographic recombinant
protein purification,” Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,
(Published Online in 2012, Currently In Press).
$399,961 Bohrer, Gil, Zhao, LingYing, Wyslouzil, Barbara
E. (2010-2013). Large eddy simulations of PM dispersion
to quantify the effects of windbreaks on air quality around
CAFOs, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
$335,000 Winter, Jessica, Chalmers, Jeffery, Ruan, Gang,
Wyslouzil, Barbara E. (2012-2015)
Micellular Electrospray Synthesis of Magnetic Quantum Dots
National Science Foundation.
Barbara Wyslouzil
Associate Professor, PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
2000. Biochemical engineering, biotechnology development,
biosensing and bioseparations.
$134,367 Wyslouzil, Barbara E. (2009-2013)
Multifunctional nanoparticles: Formation and fundamental
studies, National Science Foundation (OSU NSEC, subaward).
$213,178 Wyslouzil, Barbara E. (2010-2013)
GOALI: Collaborative Research: Fundamental studies of waterhydrocarbon condensation, National Science Foundation.
$330,000 Winter, J.O., Wyslouzil, B., Chalmers, J.J., Ruan, G.
(2012-2015). Micellular Electrospray Synthesis of Magnetic
Quantum Dots, National Science Foundation.
Current Projects and Grants
$450,000 Wyslouzil, Barbara E. (2009-2013)
Nanodroplet aerosols: Nucleation rates and structure, National
transformation efficiency, plasmid stability, gene expression
and n-butanol biosynthesis in Clostridium tyrobutyricum,
Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 93, 881-889 (2012).
Science Foundation.
$478,000 Wyslouzil, Barbara E. (2012-2015)
Nanodroplets to nanoparticles: Integrated studies of freezing
National Science Foundation.
S.T. Yang and R. Zang, Perspectives on carbon nanotube-based
scaffolds in nerve tissue engineering, J. Tissue Sci. Eng., 3, 1-2
(2012).
Shang-Tian Yang
Professor, PhD, Purdue University, 1984. Bioprocess
engineering, biochemical engineering, metabolic engineering,
tissue engineering; biofuels and bio-based chemicals; high
throughput screening for drug discovery and bioprocess
optimization; stem cell engineering.
Refereed Papers
Zhang, M. Yu and S.T. Yang, Effects of ptb knock-out on
butyric acid fermentation by Clostridium tyrobutyricum,
Biotechnol. Prog., 28, 52-59 (2012).
N. Lu, D. Wei, X.-L. Jiang, F. Chen, S-T Yang, Fatty acids
profiling and biomarker identification in snow alga
Chlamydomonas nivalis under NaCl stress using GC/MS and
multivariate statistical analysis, Analytical Letters, 45, 1-12
(2012).
N. Lu, D. Wei, F. Chen and S.T. Yang, Lipidomic profiling and
discovery of lipid biomarkers in snow alga Chlamydomonas
nivalis under salt stress, Eur J Lipid Sci Technol., 114, 253–265
(2012).
C. Lu, J. Zhao, S.T. Yang, D. Wei, Fed-batch fermentation
for butanol production from cassava bagasse hydrolysate
in a fibrous bed bioreactor with continuous gas stripping,
Bioresources Technol., 104, 380-387 (2012).
M. Yu, Y. Du, W. Jiang, W.-L. Chang, S.T. Yang, I.-C. Tang,
Effects of different replicons in conjugative plasmids on
Y. Wen, R. Zang, X. Zhang and S.T. Yang, A novel 24-well
microbioreactor plate with improved mixing and scalable
performance for high-throughput cell cultures, Process
Biochem., 47, 612-618 (2012).
R. Zang, D. Li, I.C. Tang, J. Wang, and S.T. Yang, Cell-based
assays in high-throughput screening for drug discovery, Int J
Biotechnol Wellness Ind (IJBWI), 1, 31-51 (2012).
N. Lu, D. Wei, X.-L. Jiang, F. Chen, S.T. Yang, Regulation of
lipid metabolism in the snow alga Chlamydomonas nivalis in
response to NaCl stress: An integrated analysis by cytomic and
lipidomic approaches, Process Biochem., 47, 1163-1170 (2012).
Z.-X. Liang, L. Li, S. Li, Y.-H. Cai, S.T. Yang, J.-F. Wang,
Enhanced propionic acid production from Jerusalem artichoke
hydrolysate by immobilized Propionibacterium acidipropionici
in a fibrous-bed bioreactor, Bioprocess Biosyst, Eng., 35, 915921 (2012).
B. Zhang, C. Skory, S.T. Yang, Metabolic engineering of
Rhizopus oryzae: Effects of overexpressing pyc and pepc genes
on fumaric acid biosynthesis from glucose, Metabolic Eng., 14,
512-520 (2012).
C. Xue, J. Zhao, C. Lu, S.T. Yang, F. Bai, I.C. Tang, High-titer
n-butanol production by Clostridium acetobutylicum JB200
in fed-batch fermentation with intermittent gas stripping,
Biotechnol. Bioeng., 109, 2746-27 (2012).
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Faculty & Staff
R. Ng, R. Zang, K.K. Yang, N. Liu, S.T. Yang, Threedimensional fibrous scaffolds with microstructures and
nanotextures for tissue engineering, RSC Advances, 2(27),
10110-10124 (2012).
Patrick Bennett and Shang-Tian Yang, Beneficial effect of
protracted sterilization of lentils on phytase production by
Aspergillus ficuum in solid state fermentation, Biotechnol.
Prog., 28, 1263-1270 (2012).
Baohua Zhang and Shang-Tian Yang, Metabolic engineering of
Rhizopus oryzae: Effects of overexpressing fumR gene on cell
growth and fumaric acid biosynthesis from glucose, Process
Biochem. 47, 2159–2165 (2012).
C. Xue, J. Zhao, F. Liu, C. Lu, S.T. Yang, F.W. Bai, Two-stage
in situ gas stripping for enhanced butanol fermentation in a
fibrous bed bioreactor and energy-saving product recovery,
Bioresource Technol., in press (2012). DOI: 10.1016/j.
biortech.2012.07.062.
R. Zang and S.T. Yang, Multiwall carbon nanotube-coated
polyethylene terephthalate fibrous matrices for enhanced
neuronal differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells,
J. Materials Chemistry B, in press (2012). DOI: 10.1039/
c2tb00157h
D. Wei, X. Liu, S.T. Yang, Butyric acid production from
sugarcane bagasse hydrolysate by Clostridium tyrobutyricum
immobilized in a fibrous-bed bioreactor, Bioresource Technol.,
in press (2012). DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.11.065
R. Zang, X. Zhang, M. Li, S.T. Yang, Microwell bioreactor
system for cell-based high throughput proliferation and
cytotoxicity assays, Process Biochem. in press (2012). DOI:
10.1016/j.procbio.2012.11.014
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Current Projects and Grants
$277,144 Yang, Shang-Tian (2008-2012)
Production of fumaric acid and ethanol from soybean meal,
United Soybean Board.
$3,977,349 Tabita, F. Robert; Yang, Shang-Tian ( 2010-2013).
Carbon Dioxide to Biofuels by Facultatively Autotrophic
Hydrogen Bacteria, Department of Energy – ARPA-E.
“Rheo-Optics of Cationic Surfactant Micellar Solutions with
Mixed Aromatic Counterions,” W. Ge, H. Shi, and J.L. Zakin,
Rheol. Acta., 51(3), 249-258 (2012).
Professors
Bhavik Bakshi
Jeffrey Chalmers
Stuart Cooper
Liang-Shih Fan
Martin Feinberg
Winston Ho
Kurt Koelling
L. James Lee
Umit Ozkan
Andre Palmer
Michael Paulaitis
James Rathman
David Tomasko
Barbara Wyslouzil
Shang-Tian Yang
$250,000 Yang, Shang-Tian (2010-2013)
Engineering Clostridia for economic production of biobutanol
as a biofuel, United Soybean Board.
“Photoreversible Micelle Solution as a Smart Drag Reduction
Fluid in District Heating/Cooling Systems”, H. Shi, W. Ge,
H. Oh, S.M., Pattison, J.T, Huggins, Y., Talmon, D.J., Hart,
S.R., Raghavan, J.L., Zakin, Langmuir DOI:http://d4.doi.org.
10.1021/1A304001N
Associate Professors
Aravind Asthagiri
Isamu Kusaka
Jessica Winter
David Wood
Projects and Grants
Assistant Professor
Lisa Hall
$217,117 Yang, Shang-Tian (2010-2012)
Engineering clostritrial fermentation for biobutanol
production, National Science Foundation, STTR Phase II,
Bioprocessing Innovative Company, Inc.
Jacques Zakin
$110,000 Yang, Shang-Tian (2009-2012)
Production of fumaric acid from sugars and starch by
filamentous fungal fermentation, The Consortium for
Plant Biotechnology Research, Inc. (Department of Energy).
Refereed Papers
$1,063,605 Yang, Shang-Tian (2010-2013)
Production of Propionic Acid and Propanol from Biomass,
Dow Chemical.
Helen C. Kurtz Professor Emeritus, DEng Sci, New York
University, 1959. Surfactant drag reduction, heat transfer
endhancement, rheology.
$136, 852 Zakin, Jacques L. and S. Raghavan (2009-2012)
“Investigating the Use of Light Responsive Surfactant
Fluids in Turbulent Drag Reduction. NSF Division Chem.
Bioengineering, Environmental and ransport Science.” CBET
933295 + REU supplement $4,982.
Research Scientists
Richard Lease
Gang Ruan
Research Associates
Dawei Wang
William Kane Wang
Rui Zhou
Visiting Scholars
Luca Ansaloni
Hang Dong
Ashraf Farag Elbaz
Hyoseon Kim
Na Lu
Aleksandra Mostrag-Szlichtyng
Ruizhi Pang
Changhua Shi
Junfen Wan
Liqun Wang
Post Doctoral Researchers
Anne-Marie Alexander
Jonathan R. Brown
Chih-Chin Chen
Ying Jin
Meng Lin
Xiaowa Nie
Zhenchao Sun
Juan Tian
Jianquan Xu
Liang Zeng
Haojin Zhou
Qiang Zhou
Administrative Staff
Angela Bennett
Katie Bush-Glenn
David Cade
Bill Cory
Mike Davis
Brian Endres
Leigh Evrard
Lynn Flanagan
Paul Green
Jason Haskins
Geoff Hulse
Susan Tesfai
Wenda Williamson
Graduate Program Coordinator
Academic Advising Coordinator
Building Coordinator
Human Resources Manager
Systems Specialist
Academic Advising Coordinator
Design Engineer
Fiscal Manager
Laboratory Supervisor
Director of Development
Director of Information Technology
Fiscal Associate
Public Relations Coordinator
Clinical Faculty
Carlo Scaccia
Emeritus Professors
Robert S. Brodkey
Harry C. Hershey
Thomas L. Sweeney
Jacques L. Zakin
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