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First year graduate student, Katherine Zodrow, is awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. |
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| 9.09 |
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Jessica's award-winning electron micrograph image entitled, "Squid suckers: The Little Monsters That Feed the Beast" is now part of a traveling exhibition. After initially being printed in Science, the image been reprinted in journals and online sources including: Nature, Forskning & Framsteg, Spiegel Online, Illustreret Videnskab, Focus Italy, Discovery Channel, Weekly Reader, National Geographic, Ars Technica, MSNBC, and The Boston Globe. |
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| 9.09 |
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Meny delivered a plenary lecture at the IWA Membrane Technology Conference in Beijing, China (September 1-3, 2009) entitled "Recent Advances in Membrane Technology". For pictures click here. |
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| 6.09 |
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Graduate student, Meagan Mauter, is awarded the prestigious Abel Wolman Doctoral Fellowship, granted by the American Water Works Association. Click here to read about the fellowship, and here to see a list of all 2009 AWWA award winners. |
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| 3.09 |
 The Elimelech Lab's paper entitled: "Transport of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Porous Media: Filtration Mechanisms and Reversibility" makes ES&T's "Best Papers of 2008" list as first runner-up in the category of Environmental Technology. The paper's authors are Deb Jaisi, Navid Saleh, Ruth Blake (Assoc. Prof. in Yale's Dept. of Geology and Geophysics) and Meny. Read the ES&T press release. Read the Yale press release. |
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Meny gave a keynote speech for the World Water Day symposium in Seoul, Korea entitled: "The Green New Deal and Sustainable Water Purification Technologies." He also gave a live radio interview in Seoul. For pictures, click here. |
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| 2.09 |
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Graduate student, Meagan Mauter, receives the American Chemical Society Environmental Chemistry Graduate Student Award.  |
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| 1.09 |
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A Yale press release on its engineered osmosis technology triggers a cascade of online news reports and blog posts: Desalination, Health News Digest, Low Carbon Economy, Science Blog, EurekAlert, Scientific Blogging, e! Science News, IDS Water, Web Wire, The Green Optimistic, Science Mode, Sindh Today, Clean Technica, News Soliclima |
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 Yale's engineered osmosis technology is featured in MIT's Technology Review. Read the article "A Low-Energy Water Purifier," published Jan. 8. |
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| 12.08 |
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Graduate student, Rob McGinnis' feature article entitled "Global Challenges in Energy and Water Supply: The Promise of Engineered Osmosis" is highlighted on the cover of the December 1st issue of Environmental Science & Technology. |
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| 11.08 |
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Meny wins the 2008 Lawrence K Cecil Award presented by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Click here to read the announcement in the Yale Bulletin or here for a description of Meny's award lecture.  View pictures of the ceremony here |
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Graduate student, Anna Stirgwolt Brady-Estévez is tapped as a 2008 Kauffman Fellow. The prestigious program handpicks and cultivates future leaders in venture capital. |
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| 10.08 |
 Yale's design for an osmotic heat engine is highlighted in a New Scientist article on green technology inventions. |
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| 9.08 |
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Meny comments on the potential of forward osmosis desalination in an ACS podcast entitled: "Water Desalination: Freshwater from the Sea." Click here to listen to the podcast. |
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| 4.08 |
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First year graduate student, Laura Sima, is awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship |
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| 3.08 |
 Meny co-authors an invited review article in Nature "Science and Technology for Water Purification in the Coming Decades." |
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| The forward osmosis desalination process developed at Yale is highlighted in a Nature Special Report "Purification with a Pinch of Salt." |
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| 2.08 |
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Graduate student, Robert McGinnis, receives the American Chemical Society Environmental Chemistry Graduate Student Award. |
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| 12.07 |
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Graduate student, Robert McGinnis, wins first place at the 2007 Robert M. Langer Graduate Student Symposium for his presentation on a novel osmotic heat engine. |
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Graduate student, Maggie Montgomery is featured in Yale's Dec./Jan. '07-'08 Grad School Newsletter and a San Francisco Bay Area Weekly Paper for her research on hygiene and sanitation improvement as a method for disease prevention in Tanzania. |
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| 9.07 |
| Yale's new finding on single-walled carbon nanotubes is highlighted in several publications and online blogs: ES&T, New Scientist Tech, TMCnet, medGadget, nanowerk, nature, physorg, ScienceDaily, Food Production Daily, nanotechnology today, American Chemical Society, Nano Today (web link, PDF). |
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| 5.07 |
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Meny is elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), a select group of 250 people who live and work in Connecticut and have made significant contributions to scientific theory and/or applications. |
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| 2.07 |
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Fourth year graduate student, Kai Loon Chen, receives a 2007 Graduate Student Paper Award, presented by the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the American Chemistry Society. |
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| 1.07 |
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Graduate student, Jeffery McCutcheon, receives the American Chemical Society Environmental Chemistry Graduate Student Award. Read the announcement in the Yale Engineering Bulletin. |
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Yale's FO Process is highlighted in two recent feature articles:
 Read "Yale Constructs Forward Osmosis Desalination Pilot Plant" in the January 2007 issue of Membrane Technology.
 Read "The Ammonia-Carbon Dioxide Forward Osmosis Desalination Process" in the October 2006 issue of Water Conditioning & Purification. |
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Meny delivers a plenary talk entitled: "Environmental Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities and Challenges" at the CENeM-2007 International Conference in West Bengal, India. |
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Graduate student, Maggie Montgomery's feature article entitled "Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries: Including Health in the Equation" is highlighted on the cover of the January 1st issue of Environmental Science & Technology. |
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| 11.06 |
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Meny wins the 2006 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors  Frontier of Research Award. View Ceremony Photos |
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| 10.06 |
| Forward Osmosis (FO) Desalination Pilot arrives. View Photos |
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| 9.06 |
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First year graduate student, Meagan Mauter, is awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and the EPA STAR Graduate Research Fellowship |
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Graduate student, Robert McGinnis, is awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship |
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| 8.06 |
 Yale's forward osmosis desalination technology is mentioned in the 8.25.06 issue of Science Magazine in the article "Desalination Freshens Up" |
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| 5.06 |
| Yale's forward osmosis desalination technology is featured in the 5.03.06 issue of Environmental Science & Technology Online in the article "Water Desalination Takes a Step Forward" |
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 Yale's forward osmosis desalination technology is featured in the 5.01.06 issue of Water Online in the article "Yale to Build Novel Forward Osmosis Desalination Pilot Plant" |
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| 2.06 |
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Meny is elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Read the  press release. Visit the NAE  |
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| 1.06 |
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Graduate student, Alexis de Kerchove, receives the American Chemical Society Environmental Chemistry Graduate Student Award. Read the announcement in the Yale Engineering Bulletin. |
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| 10.05 |
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Graduate student, Allegra da Silva, is awarded a Certificate of Merit by the American Chemical Society Division of Environmental Chemistry for her presentation at the 230th National Meeting in Washington, DC, in August of 2005. |
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| 7.05 |
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Meny receives the 2005 Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize for outstanding achievement in water science and technology. Read the Press Release. Visit the National Water Research Institute  |
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