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Michael Henson
Professor Michael Henson has been chosen to serve as the next Department Head of Chemical Engineering (ChE) at UMass Amherst for an initial 3.5-year term, which began on January 3, 2021. As College of Engineering Dean Sanjay Raman said, “Mike has been a strong and steady hand in leading the department as interim head for the past very challenging seven months, and we look forward to working with him to advance the vision and goals of the department and college.”
Jellyfish Janus Particles
At the Materials Research Society (MRS) Meeting in early December, juniors Nicholas Sbalbi and Kyle Schoenberg of the Chemical Engineering (ChE) Department collaborated with doctoral student Heather Hamilton of the Polymer Science and Engineering (PSE) Department to win a first-place prize in the annual Science as Art competition. Their winning entry was a scanning electron microscope (SEM) micrograph titled “Jellyfish Janus Particles.”
Hansen Tjo
Chemical Engineering (ChE) undergraduate student Hansen Tjo was recently awarded "Best Presentation” in the Biomolecular Engineering Session at the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium, hosted by Rice University. Tjo was also a recent awardee at the 2020 Future Leaders in Chemical Engineering Symposium.
Akansha Singh Bansal & Noman Bashir
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department doctoral students Akansha Singh Bansal and Noman Bashir, both advised by ECE Professor David Irwin, won prizes at the “Lightning Talks Competition” during the Energy Data Analytics Symposium, hosted by the Duke University Data Analytics Lab on December 8 and 9.
