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ME in the News

Professors Wojciech Lipiński, Jane Davidson and Thomas Chase, along with Professor Sossina Haile at the California Institute of Technology, and their industrial partner Abengoa Solar, Inc., have been awarded a DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy grant "Solar fuels via partial redox cycles with heat recovery."

ME department researchers Alec Gorjestani, Arvind Menon, Eddie Arpin, Craig Shankwitz, Janet Creaser, Michael Manser, and Prof. Max Donath have developed an application to help teen drivers. More..

Gridsada Phanomchoeng and Prof. Rajamani's paper on "Real-Time Automotive Slip Angle Estimation with Nonlinear Observer" presented at the 2011 American Control Conference was selected for the ASME Automotive and Transportation Systems Committee Best Paper Award.  This award is given to the best automotive paper at the American Control Conference.

Joshua Quinnell, who is a PhD candidate working with Professor Jane Davidson, received the Research Poster Award at the E3 2011 Annual Conference, for his poster entitled "Thermochemical Seasonal Energy Storage using Calcium Chloride."

Professor Allison Hubel and BioCoR, and her new initiative, The Biopreservation Resoucr Consortium, were featured in genomeweb, an online and print publisher dedicated to molecular biology research and molecular diagnostics. Read the article here (pdf).


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