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Quan Do wins Best Poster Award at the 2016 Southwest Catalysis Society (SWCS) Symposium

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We congratulate 2nd year graduate student Quan Do (far left in the picture) for winning a SWCS Best Poster Award! Quan’s poster was titled “Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Methane using Transition Metals as Hydrogen Storage Materials” and described his combined theoretical and experimental approach to discover novel processes for methane upgrade. The project is financially supported […]

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Juan Arevalo selected for SURF

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To continue his work on optimizing bimetallic catalysts for the simultaneous oxidation of carbon monoxide and nitrogen monoxide, Juan Arevalo receives a University of Houston Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). The financial support allows him to conduct full time research during the summer. Juan is mentored by Yuying Song to work towards his goal of

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Sashank receives AIChE CRE Travel Award to attend the 2015 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City

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Sashank Kasiraju has been selected as recipient of one of the AIChE CRE travel awards this year. The award includes a $400 check and a ticket to the CRE Division Dinner. Congratulations! Sashank will present his PhD research at this year’s AIChE conference in Salt Lake City in the session “Rational Catalyst Design II” on Thursday,

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Article on CO oxidation over gold catalysts receives Best Fundamental Paper Award from the AIChE South Texas Section

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The South Texas Section (STS) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) selected our paper “The critical role of water at the gold-titania interface in catalytic CO oxidation” for the Best Fundamental Paper Award 2014. Hieu Doan and Lars Grabow accepted the award on behalf of all co-authors, which include Johnny Saavedra, Chris Pursell

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Strong presence and poster award at the 2015 OChEGS Symposium

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Our group shows a strong presence at the 2015 Symposium by the Organization of Chemical Engineering Graduate Students (OChEGS) at the University of Houston with a total of 6 presentations and two notable honors. Byeongjin Baek was selected to give the opening presentation on “Experimental and theoretical insights into the hydrogen-efficient direct hydrodeoxygenation mechanism of phenol over Ru/TiO2(110)”.

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