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Texas A&M University College of Engineering

News

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

Kevin Nixon awarded Graduate Teaching Fellowship 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)

Kevin Nixon awarded CIRTL Academy of Future Faculty Associate Fellow at Texas A&M University

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

Kevin Nixon received honorable mention from NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

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

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