Lori Pollock, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, received an Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award from the National Center for Women & Information Technology.
Day Earns NSF CAREER Award
She is engineering membrane-wrapped nanoparticles for targeted ribonucleic acid (RNA) delivery to breast cancer cells.
Antoniewicz Inducted Into AIMBE College of Fellows
Antoniewicz was selected for “pioneering contributions in advancing stable-isotope tracing and quantitative metabolic flux analysis approaches in biomedical and biological engineering,” according to a press release announcing the award. He is one of 156 new Fellows inducted in 2018.
UD Biomedical Engineer Lands NSF CAREER Award
John Slater will develop a tissue-engineered model of ischemic microstroke—small, temporary blockages in brain blood flow that affect an estimated 50,000 Americans per year.
A pioneer in the study of soft matter
UD’s Norm Wagner has received the 2018 Sustained Research Prize from the Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA).
Jack Gillespie honored by Society of Plastics Engineers
The director of UD’s world-renowned Center for Composite Materials has been named a Fellow of SPE. Since 1984, just 334 of the society’s 22,500-plus members have achieved Fellow status.
IEEE Early Career Research Award
The Early Career Researcher Award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing, within just five years of earning their doctoral degrees.
Papoutsakis Elected to National Academy of Engineering
The chemical engineer was selected “for contributions to metabolic engineering, especially the industrial biotechnology of Clostridia, and to biomanufacturing of therapeutic proteins.”
Building the Future of Railroads
Allan M. Zarembski has received the 2017 Fumio Tatsuoka Best Paper Award from the journal Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology for his contributions to track engineering.
John Slater Named ‘Rising Star’
Slater is one of eight Rising Star award winners selected from early-career researchers nationwide who focus on engineering molecules and cells to enhance the understanding of biology and practice of medicine.
Engineering’s Dan Weile Named IEEE Fellow
No more than one-tenth of one percent of the total voting membership of IEEE earns Fellow status in any one year. Weile was selected for his contributions to computational electromagnetics.
Engineering’s Prather Named NAI Fellow
Dennis Prather has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The electrical engineer holds more than 60 patents and invention disclosures.