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BME/ChE Professors Receive Provost Multidisciplinary Award

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Professor Hani Awad (BME) in collaboration with professor Matthew Yates (ChE) received one of the 2012 Provost's Multidisciplinary Awards for their collaborative project entitled Coating of Titanium Implants with Electrically Polarized Hydroxyapatite to Enhance Bone Integration.

BME & ChE Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Friday, March 30, 2012

Two current BME and Chemical Engineering students and a BME alumna have received prestigious National Science Foundation Research Fellowships. BME graduate student, Jason Inzana (Awad Lab), Michael Baranello, a Chemical Engineering Ph.D. student in the Benoit Lab, and Molly Boutin, an alumnus of the Benoit lab (undergraduate research assistant), were among those who received the fellowships.

Selection for these awards is based on the students' outstanding abilities and accomplishments, as well as their potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the US science and engineering enterprise. The fellowship, which is part of a federally sponsored program, provides three years of graduate study support for students pursing doctoral degrees. The fellowship includes a three-year annual stipend of $30,000, a $10,500 educational allowance to the institution, and international research opportunities.

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