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Jones Group News

July 2009 – Teresita and her husband Pablo welcome their first child, daughter Candela, on July 11. Congratulations!

May 2009 – Krishnan and his wife Haritha welcome their first child, daughter Anushree, on May 22. Congratulations!

May 2009 – Chris appears in a special report on the use of coal energy in Georgia on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer. Link: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/environment/jan-june09/georgiacoal_05-19.html

May 2009 – All the new ChBE PhD students in the group pass their PhD Qualifying Exams. Congratulations to Linda, Dun-Yen, Michael, Hyung-Ju, Weiyin, and Josh!

April 2009 – Michael Morrill is recognized with the 2009 AIChE Student Chapter Outstanding TA Award. Chosen by the undergraduate students, this is a great recognition of his efforts as a teaching assistant in ChBE 4300, Kinetics and Reactor Design.

January 2009 – Chris Gill defends his PhD Thesis entitled: "Novel Hybrid Organic/Inorganic, Single-Sited Catalysts and Supports for Fine Chemical Intermediate Synthesis." Following his defense, he will join Conoco-Phillips as a Research Engineer.

January 2009 – Ms. Linda Al-Hmoud and Mr. Dun-Yen Kang win the awards for Outstanding Performance on the Written and Oral PhD Qualifying Exams, respectively.

December 2008 – Mr. Genggeng Qi successfully defends his PhD Thesis entitled "Unconventional Miniemulsion Polymerization," and takes a position as a post-doctoral fellow in the group of Emmanuel Giannelis at Cornell University.

November 2008 – Mr. Eric Ping is recognized as an Outstanding Teaching Assistant by the School for his efforts in Spring 2008 as the TA for the graduate course in Kinetics and Reactor Design, ChBE 6300.

October 2008 – Two new research collaborations with Dow and ConocoPhillips are announced:

Dow will support a collaborative effort combining experiment and theory at Georgia Tech and the University of Virginia on the development catalysts for syngas conversion to oxygenates such as higher alcohols.  In addition to research in our group, Professors Sholl and Agrawal will be involved at GT, and Robert Davis at UVA.  Dow will also support an effort focused on epoxide conversions using supported metal salen complex catalysts.

ConocoPhillips a collaborative effort combining experiment and theory focused on the development membranes for acid gas separations.  The overall program is led by Sankar Nair and involves efforts in the Nair, Jones, Sholl, Hesketh and Koros groups at GT.  Jones group efforts focus on incorporating amine structures into membranes for acid gas adsorption.

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