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David Castner Honored by UK Surface Analysis Forum

November 20, 2014

MolES faculty member and NESAC/BIO Director David Castner was recently awarded the 2014 RiviÃ¨re Prize from the UK Surface Analysis Forum. This award is presented to researchers whose work has had a major impact on other researchers in the field of surface analysis. In naming Castner the 2014 recipient, the UK Surface Analysis Forum cited [...]

MolES Faculty Honored with UW Innovation Awards

September 7, 2014

Two faculty members of the Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute have received Innovation Awards, recently announced by the Office of the President. The awards honor mid-career researchers who are engaged in the medical, natural, social and engineering sciences. They also recognize faculty who foster new creative ways to foster student learning and active engagement. Among the [...]

MolES Faculty among the World's Most Influential Researchers

July 16, 2014

Six faculty members of the Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute are included on a list of the world's most influential scientific researchers of the last decade. The 2014 list of Highly Cited Researchers, developed by Thompson Reuters, includes research scientists whose published papers rank in the top 1% of citations for their respective fields. In [...]

MolES Faculty Member Suzie Pun Earns Two Honors

June 13, 2014

UW Bioengineering Robert F. Rushmer Associate Professor Dr. Suzie Pun has received two awards. She is the 2014 recipient of the Controlled Release Society (CRS) Young Investigator Award and Biomaterials Science Lectureship. She was also named the inaugural recipient of the Biomaterials Science Lectureship award. The CRS Young Investigator award recognizes a society member who [...]

MolES Faculty Member Lara Gamble Receives 2014 Sherwood Award

June 11, 2014

Dr. Lara Gamble, NESAC/BIO associate director and UW research associate professor will be the 2014 recipient of the Peter M. A. Sherwood Mid-Career Professional Award from the AVS Applied Surface Science Division (ASSD). According to AVS, the award "recognizes achievements leading to exceptional progress in research and development made by professionals in their mid-career in [...]

François Baneyx Elected to the AAAS

November 26, 2013

FÃ©licitation Ã François Baneyx, who was just named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Baneyx, professor of chemical engineering and of bioengineering and MolES faculty member, is honored for his contributions in biotechnology and biological nanotechnology. Baneyx studies protein folding and manipulates cellular pathways to make protein production simple, efficient [...]

Klavins, Seelig Receive NSF Expeditions in Computing Award

September 23, 2013

MolES faculty Georg Seelig (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering) and Eric Klavins (Electrical Engineering) were awarded $2 million as part of a multi-investigator team investigating "Molecular Programming Architectures, Abstractions, Algorithms and Applications" as part of the National Science Foundation’s Expeditions in Computing program. The team, led by by Professor Erik Winfree of the California [...]

Six MolES Faculty Named to State Academy of Sciences

September 13, 2013

Six distinguished faculty members from the Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute, including its director, Patrick Stayton, were named to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. This group includes: Charles Campbell (Chemistry) David Castner (Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering) Samson Jenekhe (Chemical Engineering) Patrick Stayton (Bioengineering) Minoru Taya (Mechanical Engineering) Paul Yager (Bioengineering) Membership in the Washington State [...]

Buddy Ratner Wins the 2012 George Winter Award from the European Society for Biomaterials

May 14, 2013

Buddy Ratner recognized for contributions to field of biomaterials The European Society for Biomaterials has chosen Buddy Ratner, a UW professor of bioengineering and chemical engineering, for the 2012 George Winter Award, recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of biomaterials. The committee cited Ratner's excellence in research, his vision and his leading role in the promotion of biomaterials [...]

Bill Atkins Named Inaugural Sid Nelson Endowed Professor

May 7, 2013

In a fitting tribute to our late colleague, mentor and friend, the School of Pharmacy is humbled to share that we have formally established the Sid Nelson Endowed Professorship in Drug Metabolism. The seeds for the professorship were sown in December 2011, after our much-loved professor of medicinal chemistry and dean emeritus passed away [...]

Pozzo Receives DOE Early Career, Undergraduate Research Mentor Awards

May 7, 2013

Congratulations to MolES faculty member and Chemical Engineering professor Lilo Pozzo, who recently received the following three awards for her accomplishments in the areas of research, mentoring, and commercialization: DOE Early Career Award, selected for the project “Neutron Scattering Investigation of the Relationship between Molecular Structure, Morphology and Dynamics in Conjugated Polymers.” Outstanding Undergraduate Research [...]

Mary Lidstrom elected to the National Academy of Sciences

May 1, 2013

The University of Washington's Mary Lidstrom and David Kaplan are among the 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 14 countries just announced by National Academy of Sciences. Members are named for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, according to the academy. Lidstrom is vice provost for research and a professor of chemical engineering [...]

Jim Pfaendtner Wins Distinguished Teaching Award

May 1, 2013

The University of Washington has announced this year's Awards of Excellence recipients, recognizing achievements in teaching, mentoring, public service and staff support. The winners will be honored 3:30-4:30 p.m., June 13, at a ceremony in Meany Hall for the campus and general public. Being awarded for the first time this year is the Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award [...]

Kannan M. Krishnan named 2013 IEEE Fellow

April 16, 2013

Kannan M. Krishnan has been named a 2013 fellow of IEEE for contributions to nano-magnetic technology in medicine. IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon [...]

Kim Woodrow named on Newsweek/The Daily Beast’s 125 Women of Impact List

April 1, 2013

UW Bioengineering assistant professor Dr. Kim Woodrow’s was named on this list, compiled by Newsweek/The Daily Beast to accompany this week’s Women in the World Summit. Dr. Woodrow was cited for her work creating dissolvable female condoms that prevent pregnancy and protect against HIV, for which she received $1 million in funding from the Bill [...]

James Carothers named Sloan Research Fellow

February 19, 2013

MolES Institute member and Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering James Carothers was named a 2013 Sloan Research Fellow in an announcement today by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Carothers’s research focuses on developing design platforms for engineering functionally-complex RNA-based control systems. These systems process cellular information and program the expression of very large numbers of [...]

Castner and Gao Inducted as AIMBE Fellows

February 1, 2013

UW Bioengineering faculty Drs. David Castner and Xiaohu Gao wereinducted as AIMBE Fellows at the organization’s annual meeting February 17-19 in Washington, DC. AIMBE, or the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering,is a non-profitadvocacy organization dedicated toimproving lives through medical and biological engineering. Drs. Castner and Gao join a distinguished group of more tahn [...]

Georg Seelig wins DARPA Young Faculty Award to develop point of care diagnostic test for infectious diseases

December 22, 2012

Georg Seelig, assistant professor of EE & CSE, has received the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award from the Department of Defense. The DARPA Young Faculty Award program identifies and engages rising research stars in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic institutions and exposes them to Department of Defense needs as well as DARPA's program development [...]

Energy Dept. funds UW project to turn wasted natural gas into diesel

December 17, 2012

The U.S. Department of Energy this month awarded $4 million to a team, led by UW chemical engineers, that aims to develop bacteria to turn the methane in natural gas into diesel fuel for transportation. [...]

David Castner Elected to AIMBE College of Fellows

December 13, 2012

Congratulations to MolES faculty David Castner (Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering) who has been selected as a member of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to improving lives through medical and biological engineering. Castner joins a distinguished group of 1,000 other fellows from academia, industry and government who have [...]