2023
Prof. Elabd appointed Acting Vice Chancellor and Dean of Engineering and Acting Director of TEES
Paola V. Méndez joins the Elabd group as an NSF-REU program summer intern
Dohyun Kim accepts a position at Microvast
Haoru Yang joins the Elabd group as a postdoctoral researcher
Kevin Nixon accepts a postdoc position at the Center for Research in Soft Matter & Polymers at the University of Delaware
Kevin Nixon received POLY Outstanding Poster Award for his poster presentation “Star Poly(ionic liquid)s” @ 2023 ACS Spring Meeting, Indianapolis.
Chandan Giri joins the Elabd group as a postdoctoral researcher
2022
Kevin Nixon and Dohyun Kim presented research at the 2022 Annual AIChE National Meeting
Kevin Nixon received the 1st place award in DuPont GOLD Graduate Seminar Competition @ 49th NOBCChE Annual Meeting, 2022
Dohyun Kim awarded Phillips 66 Fellowship (top Ph.D. student in Chem. Eng. at Texas A&M)
Rui Sun accepts research assistant professor position at Texas A&M University
Arthur Kleiderer accepts a position at EnPower
Yifei Yang accepts a position at Lam Research
Kevin Nixon selected as Best Poster Award @ 2022 TAMU Polymer Technology Industrial Consortium (2nd place)
Prof. Elabd awarded Department of Energy grant
Monica Hwang accepts the research scientist position at California Institute of Technology
2021
Prof. Elabd awarded Department of Energy grant
Prof. Elabd appointed Vice Chancellor for Research at Texas A&M Systems
Patrick Lathrop accepts a position at Franklin International
Tzu-ling Chen accepts a position at Rivian Automotive
2020
Rui Sun accepts postdoc position at Texas A&M University
Kelly Meek accepts a faculty position at University of Ottawa
Mahesh Agrawal accepts a position at Intel
Rui Sun received 3rd place award in Excellence in Graduate Student Research (Area 8A) Symposium @2020 Annual AIChE National Meeting
Rui Sun received the best oral presentation award at Texas A&M Chemical Engineering Research Symposium
Rui Sun selected finalist in Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium @ 2020 ACS Spring National Meeting & Expo
Monica Hwang accepts a position at SigmaGraft
2019
Prof. Elabd appointed Associate Dean for Research for College of Engineering, Texas A&M University
Tzu-ling Chen awarded Brunner Barns fellowship
Rui Sun awarded Phillips 66 Fellowship (top PhD student in Chem. Eng. at Texas A&M)
Rui Sun awarded Kaneka Scholarship
Prof. Elabd awarded Department of Energy grant
2017
Prof. Elabd appointed holder of the Joe M. Nesbitt Endowed Professorship
Prof. Elabd receives three National Science Foundation awards
Prof. Elabd delivers inaugural webinar in new ACS series; watch YouTube video here
Prof. Elabd selected as Fish Camp Namesake: Session C, Color Purple
Melissa Santos attends University of Michigan Law School
Kelly Meek accepts postdoc position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Kelly Meek receives DSM Science & Technology Award Finalist @ 2017 Fall ACS National Meeting
2016
Prof. Elabd elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Jake Nykaza accepts postion at Teledyne Technologies
Kelly Meek accepts postdoc position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Kelly Meek receives 2nd place award in Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Session @2016 Annual AIChE National Meeting
2015
Kelly Meek awarded Phillips 66 Fellowship (top PhD student in Chem. Eng. at Texas A&M)
Prof. Elabd elected second vice-chair of AIChE (MESD)
Prof. Elabd receives Department of Defense grant
Eric Davis accepts faculty position at Clemson University
Prof. Elabd hosted as Senior Fellow at the Instituto di Studi Avanzati at the Universita di Bologna in Bologna, Italy
Francis Richey accepts position at Eos Energy Storage
Prof. Elabd named to Editorial Advisor Board of Macromolecules and ACS Macro Letters
Elabd laboratory research profiled
2014
Elabd laboratory moves to Texas A&M University