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Environmental Nanotechnology research group: Membranes, particles, interfaces 
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Student news March 2012 Congratulations to Chris - he is the recipient of the 2012 Outstanding Environmental Engineering MS student award! January 2012 Kateryna Guzykevych, a Ph.D. visiting scholar, joins our group for a semester-long visit. Katya is a member of the membrane research group at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. November 2011 Chris and Elodie deliver award-winning presentations at the MSU Engineering graduate research symposium
November - December 2011: Chris Crock together with Nick Adams (research group of Dr. Merlin Bruening, MSU Chemistry) visit with the research group of Professor Ismail Koyuncu at the Istanbul Technical University. Chris and Nick, together with ITU students, work at the newly established National Research Center on Membrane Technologies, MEM-TEK.
November 2011: Professor Dmytro Rudakov from Ukraine's National Mining University visits MSU to work on the membrane distillation project co-funded by the MSU Strategic Partnership grant "Advanced membrane technologies for a sustainable future." September 2011: Emily Tummons and Hang Shi join the group as Ph.D. students. Group's rooting interests, which used to be undividedly with Spartans, are now partly with Kansas State Wildcats and .... Michigan Wolverines. May 2011 Emily Tummons is awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and MSU's University Distinguished Fellowship. Congratulations, Emily! July 2011:
June - August 2011: Nina DiFranco, a high school research intern, worked with Elodie Pasco and Bin Guo on the development of a novel UV reactor for virus inactivation and removal. Nina learned basics of photocatalysis, photocatalyst preparation and characterization and carried out experiments on testing photocatalytic performance of several nanomaterials in batch systems with suspended and immobilized nanocatalyst. On August 2, Nina gave a presentation on her research to the 2011 HSHSP cohort. March 2011: Elodie gives a talk at the 11th American Water Works Association Membrane Technology Conference, Long Beach, CA. The presentation describes Wenqian's and Elodie's results on the development of polyelectrolyte membranes for softening and virus removal. February 2011: The group attends Borchardt conference in Ann Arbor. Elodie and Chris participate in the poster session. October 2010:
September 2010: Our paper "Crystallization of calcium sulfate dihydrate in the presence of colloidal silica" is published in the Industrial and chemical Engineering Research journal. Fulin Wang and Tom Davis are among co-authors. July 2010:
March 2010: Congratulations to Wenqian - she is the recipient of the 2010 Outstanding Graduate Student Award!
January 2010: Sophie Carrell and Guanhong Xie have joined the group. Sophie will work with Wenqian on the synthesis of high flux membranes. Guanhong's MS research will be on the the treatment of produced water generated from wellheads at offshore platforms during oil and gas production. Fall 2009: Congratulations to (now Dr.) Julian Taurozzi on the successful defense of his PhD. dissertation! Julian will be taking on a postdoctoral position, which is joint between NIST and Duke University. We'll miss you, Julian. Good luck and lets stay in touch! July 2009: Tom Davis has joined the group. Tom will work with Wenqian on the crossflow filtration hydrocyclone project funded by NSF and MI Swaco. February 2009: Congratulations to Julian Taurozzi, the recipient of 2009 Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
January 2009: Congratulations to Elodie, Daniel, Joshua, and Hari:
August 2008: Fulin Wang successfully defends
his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Wang!!!
December 2007 : Graduate students Adam Rogensues and Elodie Pasco join the group November 2007 : Wenqian Shan together with Lu Ouyang (Bruening group, MSU Chemistry) were awarded diploma for their contribution to the project NANOMEMCAT: "Tailor-made CATalytic MEMbrane reactors with NANOstructured functional geometries for intensified chemical production". The project has been awarded the first prize in the"Synchronizing European Research" activity in NanoMemCourse EF1: "Nanostructured Materials and Membranes, Synthesis and Characterization" held in Zaragoza, Spain
September 2007: Fulin Wang receives dissertation completion fellowship from the College of Engineering March 2007 : Julian Taurozzi is awarded Nordberg Fellowship by the CEE department in recognition of significant research contributions toward his PhD dissertation February 2007: Our recent ES&T paper on nC60 toxicity is #9 on the list of most accessed papers in Oct-Dec 2006 January 2007 : Dr. Seokjong Byun, a visiting scholar from Korea Institute of Science and Technology , joins the group January 2007: Adam Rogensues is awarded 2007 Michigan Section AWWA Fellowship for Water Quality and Treatment Study December 2006: Our paper on membrane-based SERS sensors is published in the Environmental Engineering Science journal: Taurozzi, J., V. V. Tarabara . Silver nanoparticle arrays on track etch membrane support as flow-through optical sensors for water quality control. Environ. Eng. Sci. 24 , 1, 122 -137 (2007). November 2006: Our paper on nC60 toxicity is published in ES&T: Dhawan, A., Taurozzi, J. S., Pandey, A. K., Shan, W., Miller, S. M., Hashsham, S. A., V. V. Tarabara . Stable colloidal dispersions of C 60 fullerenes in water: Evidence for genotoxicity. Environ. Sci. Technol 40 , 23, 7394 - 7401 (2006). November 2006: Volodymyr Bosak, a visiting Ph. D. student from the Membrane Science group at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine joined the team for a month-long research visit. November 2006: Two talks were given by our group members at Fall 2006 CEE research symposium: (1) "Effects of ozonation on permeate flux in hybrid ozonation-membrane process" by Jon Kim, and (2) "Nanoparticles removal from drinking water supply: characterization of products formed during ozonation of aqueous colloidal fullerenes" by Alla Alpatova November 2006: Three talks were given at 2006 AIChE Annual meeting by our group: (1) " SERS-active silver nanoparticle arrays on track etch membrane support as flow-through water quality sensors" by Julian Taurozzi, (2) " Coupled effects of salt concentration polarization and colloidal deposition on the performance of reverse osmosis membranes" by Fulin Wang, and (3) " Stable colloidal dispersions of C 60 fullerenes in water: Evidence for genotoxicity" by Volodymyr Tarabara March 2006: Alla Alpatova has joined the group. Alla will be working on the nanofiltration-ozonation project funded through the NSF NIRT program January 2006: Our group together with the Bruening group has received NAMS student internship award for the project “International research internships: Membrane separations for water quality control" January 2006: Dr. Jeonghwan (Jon) Kim has joined our NIRT team as a postdoctoral research associate. At MSU, Jeonghwan will work on the project with us and our NIRT partners: Dr. Melissa Baumann (MSU), Dr. Susan Masten (McMaster University), and Dr. Simon Davies (McMaster University) January 2006: Wenqian Shan and Gautam Chalasani have joined the group in the Spring'06 semester December 2005: Fulin Wang presented talk "Colloidal fouling of reverse osmosis membranes" at CEE research symposium October 2005: Julian Taurozzi received McCowan Fellowship for Spring 2006 from CEE Department in recognition of his research contributions toward his PhD dissertation. Congratulations to Julian! October 2005: Julian Taurozzi received a Certificate of Merit award for the outstanding paper "Membrane-supported nanoparticle sensors for water quality control" co-authored with Volodymyr Tarabara and presented at the AEESP-ACS Symposium on Environmental Nanotechnology, 230th ACS National Meeting in Washington, DC April 2005: Volodymyr Tarabara presented talk "Coupled effects of scaling and colloidal deposition on the performance of reverse osmosis membrane filters" at the Research Advisory Board meeting of the National Water Research Institute in Santa Ana, CA January 2005: Julian Taurozzi has joined our group as a Ph.D. student October 2004: Fulin Wang presented poster "Desalination using membranes: coupled effects of colloidal deposition and solution chemistry on permeate flux" at the CEE Research Open House August 2004: Fulin Wang has joined the group as a Ph.D. student
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