Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 2 No. 4 Winter 2017 | Page 6

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Z. Li on cover of Joule
Zheng Li's paper Lowering the Bar
on Battery Cost will be featured on
the cover of Joule, a journal in the
field of energy research.
Parker invited to give 2018 plenary
lecture in Japan
Rob Parker was recently invited
to give the distinguished plenary
lecture to one of the largest
worldwide acoustics and vibrations
Parker
conferences, at the 25th Interna-
tional Congress on Sound and Vibra-
tion, July 8-12 in Hiroshima. Parker's talk will be
on Unique Vibration Phenomena in High Speed
Gear Systems.
Behkam and Nain awarded patent
Z. Li
Li is also working in collaboration
with Rui Qiao and Robert Bodnar on a paper
that has been accepted for a future issue of
Advanced Energy Materials. The article is Sodi-
um-Sulfur Flow Battery for Low-Cost Electrical
Storage. Bahareh Behkam and Amrinder Nain were
awarded a U.S. patent in September for meth-
ods and systems associated with measuring
single and multi-cell inside-out and/or outside-in
forces on a nanofiber grid. A story associated
with the work involved in the patent appeared in
VTNews in July.
Behkam and Nain in Molecular
Biology of Cell Gural receives scholarship
Bahareh Behkam and
Amrinder Nain had
their article Aligned
Fibers Direct Collective
Behkam
Nain
Cell Migration to
Engineer Closing and Nonclosing Wound Gaps,
published in the September issue of the Ameri-
can Society for Cell Biology's Molecular Biology
of Cell journal. An article about the work will
appear in a future issue of Momentum.
Eskandarian in Korea
Azim Eskandarian presented the
invited talk for the 2017 Pangyo
Autonomous Motor Show (PAMS)
Forum, Nov. 16 in Pangyo, South
Eskandarian
Korea. The talk was titled, A Per-
spective on Vehicle Safety and Mobility at the
Era of Emerging Autonomy.
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Genevieve Guaral, a senior in
mechanical engineering, was
recently awarded a top scholarship
at the Foundry Educational Founda-
Gural
tion - College Industry Conference
(FEF-CIC) for her experience in
metal casting, engineering internships, high GPA,
outreach, and demonstrated leadership. Among
other things, Gural is the SAE Baja Team captain.
Malladi DARPA grant
Postdoctoral researcher Sriram
Malladi is PI on a $500,000 Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency
grant through the Naval Research
Malladi
Laboratory. Virginia Tech's portion
of the grant is $150,000 to apply
steady-state traveling waves to develop un-
manned underwater vehicles. Malladi works in
Associate Professor Pablo Tarazaga's Vibrations
Adaptive Structures and Testing Laboratory.
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