MNTL Faculty Affiliate BRENDAN HARLEY was selected for the NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium held in September. A Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering associate professor, Harley is exploring the fabrication, characterization, and testing of scaffold-based systems for in vivo and in vitro tissue engineering.
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ECE Professor Emeritus NICK HOLONYAK JR. was named an honorary member of The Optical Society for developing technology that advanced solid-state lighting, the Internet, high-performance computing, and visible LEDs and quantum-well diode lasers. Holonyak also won the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Medal for developing the first visible red laser and LED and the use of various alloys in colored light sources, which led to reduced energy consumption worldwide and contributed to the realization of optical data communications as the backbone of the Internet.
ECE Professor KEVIN KIM was elected to the College of Fellows at the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
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ECE Professor JEAN-PIERRE LEBURTON, an MNTL faculty affiliate, was selected by the IEEE to receive a Life Membership for his leadership, volunteerism, and dedication for advancing technology to benefit humanity.
ECE Professor XIULING LI was selected as a 2017 Fellow of the IEEE.
Bioengineering MD / PhD graduate student KENNETH LONG received a prestigious NIH Fellowship. A member of Professor Brian Cunningham’ s group, Long is building a portable smartphone biosensing platform and translating that technology into point-of-care HIV viral load testing. Long also received the campus Illinois International Graduate Achievement Award. He has worked on international development projects in Cameroon and Cambodia, and is developing a global health partnership with a university in Sierra Leone.
RITU RAMAN, a graduate student in Bioengineering Professor RASHID BASHIR’ S group, placed first in the 2016 Research Live competition, which showcased the work of 63 graduate students from across campus in three-minute presentations. Bashir’ s group has developed a range of stereolithographic 3D printers and micro / nano-fabrication technologies to pattern cells and biomaterials in complex 3D structures.
Bioengineering Assistant Professor ANDREW SMITH was named an Engineering at Illinois Faculty Entrepreneurial Fellow to focus on developing technology and evaluating its commercial potential. Smith and his students are developing quantum dots that produce multicolored light for more precise medical-related imaging.
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