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The 1st Annual Research Forum for the Department of Chemical Engineering was held on January 24, 2013.  Judges for the Oral Presentations were: Richard Donovan – Senior Research Engineer (Chemical Engineering) Jay Meldrum – Director (Keweenaw Research Center) Caryn Heldt – Assistant Professor (Chemical Engineering) Debra Charlesworth – Assistant to the Dean (Graduate School) Awards Oral Presentations:           1st Place - $500: Alicia Sawdon – Guanosine Prodrug Incorporated Polymeric Nanocarriers for Suicide Gene Therapy 2nd Place - $250: Le Xin – Electrocatalytic Processing of Biomass-Derived Compounds:  Efficient Production of Electricity, Valuable Chemicals and Hydrocarbon Fuels 3rd Place - $100: Ji Qi – Surface Dealloyed PtCo Nanoparticles Supported on Carbon Nanotube:  Facile Synthesis and Promising Application for High Performance Anion Exchange Membrane Direct Crude Glycerol Fuel Cell Poster Presentations: 1st Place - $100: Howard Haselhuhn – Water Chemistry Effects on Zeta Potential of Concentrated Hematite Ore Awards were announced on Friday, February 1, 2013. POSTER PRESENTATIONS 1st Place- $100 travel grant: Howard Haselhuhn – Water Chemistry Effects on Zeta Potential of Concentrated Hematite Ore Ran An – Micron-Scale Ion Concentration Gradients in Nonuniform AC Electric Fields Jacob McDonald – Effects of Chemical Additives on Hematite Balling Danielle Klimek – Determination and Modeling of Tensile and Nanoindentation Modulus for Graphene Nanoplatelet/Epoxy Composites Jiqing Fan – Use of a Carbon Budget Model to Calculate Land Use Change Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated With Forest-Based Biofuels and Bioenergy Production in Michigan Sushil Pachpinde – Gold Nanorods-Based Plasmonic Detection of Glucose   Tayloria Adams – Characterization of the Dielectric Response of Mesenchymal Stem Cell   Ornella Nkurunziza – Astaxanthin Production from Microalgae Haematococcus Pluvialis Under High Light and CO2 Xiaotong Han – Mathematical Modeling of Growth and Inhibition of Microbial Biofilms Hongyu Xie – Electrophysiological Effect of Salicylic Acid on Erythrocytes in a 3D Graphene Electrode Dielectrophoretic Device   Rui Shi – Life Cycle Assessment Methods of Algae Biofuels Production Pathway   Maria Tafur – Reduction of Virus Infectivity in the Presence of Protecting Osmolytes Xue Mi – Electrospun Quaternized Chitosan Fibers for Virus Removal Justin Carlson – Investigation of Jigging for the Beneficiation of High-MgO Sedimentary Phosphate Ores Hwi Yong Lee – Improving Electrokinetic Microdevice Stability by Controlling Electrolysis Bubbles ………………………………………………………………… Brett Spigarelli – Surfactant Addition to Alkali Solutions for Increased Carbon Dioxide Absorption Rates Suchada Ukaew – Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Rapeseed Biodiesel Life Cycle Using Roundtable Sustainable Biofuels Methodology Zainab Ibrahim Alsboug - Production of Recombinant tricoderma reesei Endoglucanase Protein CEL7B by Using kluyveromyces lactis No Photo Joe Halt – Increasing the Clay Content and Size of Iron Ore Pellets Reduces Their Dustiness No Photo Jordan Klinger – Kinetic Study of Torrefaction Products from Woody Feedstock Using Direct Py-GC/MS No Photo K. Saagar Vijayaragavan – Virus Purification by Aqueous Two Phase Extraction System ORAL PRESENTATIONS 1st Place-$500 travel grant Alicia Sawdon – Guanosine Prodrug Incorporated Polymeric Nanocarriers for Suicide Gene Therapy 2nd Place-$250 travel grant Le Xin – Electrocatalytic Processing of Biomass-Derived Compounds:  Efficient Production of Electricity, Valuable Chemicals and Hydrocarbon Fuels 3rd Place-$100 travel grant Ji Qi – Surface Dealloyed PtCo Nanoparticles Supported on Carbon Nanotube:  Facile Synthesis and Promising Application for High Performance Anion Exchange Membrane Direct Crude Glycerol Fuel Cell No Photo Jifei Liu – Life Cycle Assessment of Ethanol and Potassium Acetate Produced from a Forest Product Waste Stream by an Integrated Biorefinery System………………………… No Photo Yang Zhang – A Novel Functionally Based Enzymatic Hydrolysis Model for Lignocellulosic Biomass Considering Structural Morphology of Cellulose and Hemicellulose Together No Photo Chungja Yang – Dielectrophoretic Response of Perfluorocarbon Oil-Core. Chitosan/Poly-L-lysine/CaPO4 Shell Nanoparticles Other photos       Pizza and Awards Announcement