Faculty, student and alumni honored; research gains attention

In the latest installment of this recurring feature, which appears in the COE Update on the third Monday of each month, we recognize recent accomplishments, awards and honors earned by College of Engineering faculty, staff and students:

FACULTY HONORS

• Zhigang Shen was selected to the 2023 NSF CMMI Game Changer Academies for Advancing Research Innovation Program. https://go.unl.edu/idb7
  
• Emmeline Lemos Watson receives 2022 American Schools of Construction Regional Teaching Award for Region 4. https://engineering.unl.edu/kudos/221104/dsaec/watson_asc_teaching_award/
  
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam has been named editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications. https://engineering.unl.edu/kudos/221104/balasubramaniam_ieee_journal/
  
• Stuart Bernstein, Libby Jones and Xu Li have been selected to the latest cohort of UNL’s FLAIR leadership program. https://engineering.unl.edu/kudos/221109/faculty_flair_cohort/
  
• Six Nebraska Engineering faculty are among 11 chosen to UNL’s Research Faculty Development Program cohort. https://engineering.unl.edu/kudos/221022/rdfp_22_23_cohort/

• Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Chungwook Sim and Maher Tadros and alumni David Gee and Micheal Assad honored with ASCE’s yearly top paper award. https://engineering.unl.edu/news/221028/cee/asce_lin_award/
  
• Biological Systems Engineering’s Abia Katimbo, Daran Rudnick, Wei-zhen Liang, Yufung Ge, Xin Qiao, Hope Njuki Nakabuye, and Jiaming Duan have an article in Science Direct on two-source energy balance maize evapotranspiration. https://go.unl.edu/h0we
  
• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering’s Siemak Nejati, Mona Bavarian and Tung Nguyen have an article in MDPI journal Membranes suggesting possible composition of IL and polymers to realize gains in gas sorption. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0375/12/11/1087/htm
  
• BSE’s Tiffany Messer and CEE’s Shannon Bartelt-Hunt's article in Frontiers in Water analyze methods of extracting water, solids, POCIS and plant tissue from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. https://go.unl.edu/20d4
  
• Mechanical and Materials Engineering’s Juveriya Parmar co-author article in Nature Scientific Reports on how light-field regulation capabilities make optical metamaterials potentially perfect absorbers of solar energy. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22951-1
  
• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering’s Syed Ibrahim Gnani Peer Mohamed and Siamak Nejati article in ASCS Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters on ionic covalent organic frameworks having properties suitable to use for ion transport materials, energy storage media and metal sorption. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02543
  
• Nebraska Today’s Research Roundup: Tami Brown-Brandl, Raj Sharma and Asya Macon developing wearable sensors that could help lower rate of mortality in infant pigs; and Fadi Alsaleem, Mohammad Ali Takallou and Ali Hazem Al Ramini working on easier, less-costly screening technique for peripheral artery disease. https://go.unl.edu/czgx

• Andrea Goertzen, a senior in chemical engineering, was chosen to take part in “Future Leaders in Chemical Engineering,” a national award symposium. https://engineering.unl.edu/kudos/221118/chme_goertzen_futureleaders/
  
• UCARE awards academic-year stipends to 43 Nebraska Engineering undergraduate students to support faculty research. https://engineering.unl.edu/news/221111/ucare_stipends/

• Four Nebraska Engineering alums join UNL’s Young Alumni Academy. https://go.unl.edu/38ca