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2008-06-25
DeSimone Awarded Lemelson-MIT Prize: Joseph M. DeSimone, Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry, UNC-CH and William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, NCSU will receive the prestigious Lemelson-MIT award for 2008. ‘Dubbed the "Oscar for Inventors," the $500,000 prize is bestowed upon outstanding mid-career inventors’, who are also entrepreneurs and committed mentors. DeSimone’s award recognizes multiple breakthroughs, including a ‘green’ process for making Teflon® fluorocarbon polymers, a technology for a fully bioabsorbable, polymer-based coronary stent, and continuing development of PRINT® nanobiomaterials for the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

2008-04-23
Samulski presents UNC-G Science and Society Lecture: Edward Samulski, 2005 Jefferson Fellow and Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Chemistry at UNC-CH will present a talk, 'Return from the Dark Side: A Research Scientist’s Perspective on Science for Statecraft', Wednesday April 23, 7:30-9:00 RM, Rm 200, Science Bldg., 301 McIver St., UNCG Campus, Greensboro as part of the UNCG Science and Society Lecture Series.

2008-04-11
DeSimone and Kelly featured in Nature Nanotechnology Research Highlights: Work by Joseph M. DeSimone, Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry UNC-CH and William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, NCSU, and Research Assistant Jennifer Y. Kelly using a newly developed PRINT (particle replication in non-wetting templates) process was recently featured in Nature Nanotechnology Research Highlights.  The technique, reported in a J. Amer. Chem. Soc. paper (doi: 10.1021/ja8014428 (2008)), generated size and shape controlled nanoparticles of pure insulin, albumin or albumin plus theraputics and shows significant promise for therapeutic drug delivery.

2008-04-02
Michelle Buchanan (ORNL), IAM Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Grand Scientific Challenges in Energy: Wednesday, 2 April, 2:00 pm, Chapman 125. Dr. Buchanan is the Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences at  Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is widely published in mass spectrometry and serves on multiple editorial and review boards. She will also be meeting with the UNC-CH faculty, administrators and students to learn about UNC-CH programs and facilities.

Wednesday, 2 April 2008
IAM Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Grand Scientific Challenges in Energy
Dr. Michelle Buchanan, ORNL
2:00 pm, 125 Chapman Hall

2008-01-16
DeSimone Receives Impact Entrepreneur Award: Professor Joseph M. DeSimone, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and founder of Liquidia Technologies, has been named a Triangle Impact Entrepreneur by Business Leader Magazine for his contributions to innovative nanoparticle therapeutics and a targeted drug delivery platform at Liquidia Technologies.

2007-11-30
Ramsey Elected Fellow of AIMBE:
J. Michael Ramsey, UNC Minnie N. Goldby Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, AIMBE. According to College of Fellows Chair Nicholas Peppas, Sc.D., the fellows represent some of the most imaginative and distinguished bioengineers in the field. Their contributions have had a major impact in biomedical devices and processes, treatment of diseases, and public policy related to all aspects of bioengineering. Professor Ramsey was cited in particular for his pioneering efforts in the development and commercialization of lab-on-a-chip devices for drug discovery, healthcare and environmental monitoring.

2007-08-23
DeSimone Delivers Nanotechnology and Imaging Lecture at ISSSR Symposium: Joseph DeSimone, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at UNC and Founder of Liquidia Technologies, presented an invited to lecture “Nanosystems Biology, Nanotechnology, and Opportunities for Imaging,” to an international audience of leading scientists and the CEOs of the leading imaging equipment manufacturers at the International Society for Strategic Studies in Radiology (IS3R) symposium in Munich, Germany. The talk focused on producing precisely engineered nanoparticles, made by proprietary PRINT™ technology, for combined molecular imaging and therapeutic purposes. This exciting new area is being developed at UNC and at Liquidia Technologies Inc., an innovative nanotechnology company founded to design, develop, and manufacture such precisely engineered particles and films for life science and materials applications.

2007-08-19
Jason Rolland, UNC Graduate and Liquidia Co-Founder, Receives Outstanding Doctoral Research Award: Jason Rolland, a 2005 doctoral graduate of UNC, is the recipient of the prestigious 2007 National Starch & Chemical Company Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Science and Engineering.  Dr. Rolland’s winning thesis, which he wrote under the direction of Professor Joseph DeSimone, examined novel applications of perfluoropolyether (PFPE) materials.  Dr. Rolland is a co-founder and now Senior Scientist at Liquidia Technologies, which is commercializing the PFPE technology for wide ranging applications including antifouling coatings, microfluidics, mold-based lithography for nano-patterned films, and nanoparticle fabrication. 

2007-08-01
General Assembly establishes University Cancer Research Fund at UNC: The fund, established to accelerate the battle against cancer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine and its Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, will receive $25 million in 2007-2008 and is slated to increase to $50 million per year beginning in 2009.

2007-07-26
The Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence announces two new programs:

1) A new Graduate Certificate in Nanomedicine being offered through the UNC Graduate School beginning this Fall, which is available to students and postdocs. For more info contact: ccne@med.unc.edu.

2) A new Nanomedicine Course being offered in Fall semester. Enrollment in the certificate program is not required to take the course. For more info contact RL Juliano at arjay@med.unc.edu.

2007-07-10
Associate Professor Peter J. Mucha wins NSF Career Award: Peter J. Mucha, Department of Mathematics & Institute for Advanced Materials, began the fiscal year on a high note:  On July 1, he was promoted to Associate Professor and received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award. The NSF Career Award is one of the highest honors given by NSF to young university faculty in science and engineering, and is intended to advance the development of their research and careers.

2007-03-11
UNC Material Science and Engineering Program Ranked 2nd in the Nation

2007-03-08
IAM Director Joseph M. DeSimone featured in Nature article investigating the therapeutic uses of nanotechnology in the treatment and diagnosis of cancer (Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 6, 174-175 (March 2007)).

David Adalsteinsson
Applied Mathematics
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

Interface problems, Utilizing methods based on the Level Set Method, Algorithms such as the narrow band method and the fast extension method, Involved physical simulations such as simulating the processes involved in the creation of computer chips

Nancy L. Allbritton
Chemistry
Debreczeny Distinguished Professor
M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Microfabricated Materials for Biomedical Research, Cellular Signaling, Miniaturized Systems for Cellular Analysis

Valerie S. Ashby
Chemistry
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Polymer Design and Synthesis, Polymer Composites, Biomaterial Synthesis

Max L. Berkowitz
Chemistry
Professor
Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science

Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Biophysical Chemistry

Roberto Camassa
Applied Mathematics
George Kane Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology

Nonlinear Evolution Equations, Mathematical Modeling, Fluid Mechanics, Optics

Director, Joseph M. DeSimone
Chemistry
Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry, UNC-CH and William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, NCSU
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

New strategies for the delivery of detection, imaging and therapeutic agents for the battle against human disease; Nanomedicine; Fluoropolymers: photolithography, fuel cells, microfluidics; Medical devices; Colloid, surfactant and surface chemistry; Polymer synthesis and processing in carbon dioxide

Timothy C. Elston
Dept of Pharmacology
Assistant Professor
Director, Graduate Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Ph.D., Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology

Motor proteins, Transcriptional regulation, Constructing realistic models of these regulatory systems that take into account intrinsic noise

Co-Director, M. Gregory Forest
Mathematics
Biomedical Engineering
Grant Dahlstrom Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona

Flow and Structure of Nano-Materials & Macromolecular Fluids, Weakly Compressible Transport Phenomena, Solitons and Optical Fiber Applications, Inverse Problems for Material Characterization, Modeling of Transport in Multiphase Porous Media

Michel R. Gagné
Chemistry
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University

Catalysis, New Synthetic Methods

John P. Hernandez
Physics and Astronomy
Professor
Ph.D., University of Rochester

Theory of electron states in disordered media, localization, insulator-metal transition, statistical physics

Jingfang Huang
Applied Mathematics
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Courant Institute of Mathematic Sciences,
New York University

Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computation, Fast Algorithms, Potential Theory, Integral Equations and their Applications in Electromagnetics, Fluid Dynamics, Molecular Mechanics and Quantum Chemistry

Eugene A. Irene
Chemistry
Professor
Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Chemistry at Semiconductor Surfaces

Christopher Jones
Applied Mathematics
Bill Guthridge Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dynamical systems as a tool for solving problems which originate in applications, Dynamics of optical systems, Resonance phenomena in celestial mechanics and pattern formation, Nonlinear wave motion, Geometric methods, particularly invariant manifolds in phase space, Use of geometric methods in singularly perturbed systems

Rudolph L. Juliano
Pharmacology
Professor
Ph.D., Biophysics, University of Rochester

Cell adhesion molecules

Dmitri Khveshchenko
Physics and Astronomy
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Moscow

Quantum transport theory of disordered metals and superconductors, Many-body effects in mesoscopic and nanoscale systems

Wenbin Lin
Chemistry
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Supramolecular, Materials, and Catalytic Chemistry

Rene Lopez
Physics and Astronomy
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Nanoscale optical materials, photonic structures, and optoelectronic properties of transition metal oxides

Jianping Lu
Physics and Astronomy
Associate Professor
Ph.D., CUNY

Electronic and structural properties of novel materials and strongly correclated systems such as fullerenes and high Tc superconductors

Richard M. McLaughlin
Applied Mathematics
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University

Turbulent Transport, Turbulent Combustion, Thermal Convection, Weakly Compressible Transport Phenomena, Anelastic Mixing: Transport by Weakly Compressible Flow, An elementary field theory for turbulent diffusion

Laurie E. McNeil
Physics and Astronomy
Professor; Assistant Chair
Ph.D., Illinois

Optical properties of disordered solids, Raman and Brillouin scattering and photoluminescence in semiconductors and insulators

William Marzluff
Biochemistry and Biophysics
Kenan Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Duke University

Regulation of gene activity in animal cells, Regulation of gene expression during the cell cycle by postranscriptional mechanisms

Tom Meyer
Chemistry
Arey Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D., Stanford University

Electron Transfer in Molecular Assemblies

Michael L. Minion
Applied Mathematics
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California,Berkeley

Development and application of numerical methods for the study of incompressible fluid flow, primarily interested in the development of methods with higher-order spatial and temporal accuracy for use on problems with multiple spatial and temporal length scales

Sorin Mitran
Applied Mathematics
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The "Politehnica" University of Bucharest

Computational methods, Fluid flow instability, Turbomachinery analysis, Bubbly flow, Turbulence, Multiphysics computation and Astrophysical computation

Peter J. Mucha
Mathematics
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University

Study and simulation of microscopic and macroscopic models of interacting particle systems

Royce W. Murray
Chemistry
Kenan Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University

Electron Transfer, Electrocatalysis, Polymer Design, Sensors

Deputy Director, Robert K. Pinschmidt
Ph.D., University of Oregon, Eugene

J. Michael Ramsey
Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering
Minnie N. Goldby Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University

Microfluidics, Nanofluidics, Microfabricated Chemical Instrumentation

Michael Rubinstein
Chemistry
Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University

Polymer Theory and Computer Simulations

Edward T. Samulski
Chemistry
Cary C. Boshamer Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University

Structure and Dynamics of Liquid and Polymer Crystals

Mark H. Schoenfisch
Chemistry
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona

Biomaterials, Immunoassays, In Vivo Sensors, Protein Adsorption, and Scanning Probe Microscopy

Sergei S. Sheiko
Chemistry
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Dynamics of Single Molecule on a Surface

Richard Superfine
Physics and Astronomy
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

Properties of surfaces and interfaces using linear and nonlinear optical techniques, scanning tunneling, atomic force and near field optical microscopes; interfacial ordering and dynamics of molecules, polymers, polypeptides and nanometer-sized metal and semiconductor clusters

Russell M. Taylor
Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy, Applied and Materials Sciences
Research Associate Professor
Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill

Scientific Visualization, Distributed Virtual Worlds, Haptic Display, Interactive 3D Computer Graphics

Holden H. Thorp
Chemistry
Professor
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Biological Application of Transition Metal Redox Chemistry

Frank Tsui
Physics and Astronomy
Associate Professor; Assistant Chair
Ph.D., Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Atomic scale materials synthesis and characterization using molecular beam epitaxy techniques, electron diffraction and scanning probe microscopy

Sean Washburn
Physics and Astronomy
Cary Boshamer Professor of Physics; Chair of Applied and Materials Sciences
Ph.D., Duke University

Effects of quantum-mechanical coherence in charge transport in small systems, Ballistic transport in semiconductors, Control of industrial plasmas, Conductivity in polymers, Scanning probe lithography

Yue Wu
Physics and Astronomy
Professor
Ph.D., University of Leuven, Belgium

NMR studies of confined systems, quasicrystals, and polymers

Wei You
Chemistry
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago

Organic and Polymer Synthesis, Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells, Molecular Electronics, Organic Spintronics, Chemistry and Catalysis with Carbon Nanotubes

Otto Zhou
Physics and Astronomy
Associate Professor; Associate Chair, Curriculum in Applied and Materials Science
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Materials synthesis and characterization

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