The travel awards aim to further the shared goals of the ACS CATL and ChemCatBio Consortium to provide educational opportunities in catalysis, support professional development of young scientists, and foster diversity and inclusion in chemical process research. We are thankful to the CATL division and ChemCatBio for sponsoring Phuong’s travel award!
University of Oklahoma engineering professor Steven P. Crossley has been awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by the U.S. government through the National Science Foundation. This award is the highest honor bestowed by the federal government to outstanding scientists and engineers for early career achievements. Learn more by reading the full Presidential Early Career Award Press release.
Researchers at the University of Oklahoma and Iowa State University received a $4 million NSF grant to study innovative ways to produce hydrogen. This 4-year project is led by Dr. Steven Crossley and aims to generate carbon neutral or carbon negative hydrogen energy. The OU team will focus on H2 production from methane while generating solid carbon as a potentially high-value byproduct. Learn more by reading the full Hydrogen Research Grant Press release.
"Selective Reduction of Carboxylic Acids to Aldehydes with Promoted MoO3 Catalysts". This work has been done in collaboration with Justin Marlowe and Phillip Christopher at UC Santa Barbara. Congratulations, Ale!
The Richard J. Kokes Travel Award aims to encourage student participation in the biennial North American Catalysis Society meeting (NAM). This award covers a significant portion of travel and registration costs for the conference. Students need to present a paper at the meeting to be eligible for this award. Congratulations, Tram!
Done in collaboration with Phuong Do and Dr. Daniel Resasco, the paper is titled "Acylation of m-cresol with acetic acid supported by in-situ ester formation on H-ZSM-5 zeolites". You can download it through Science Direct. Congratulations, Han!
Congratulations to Tram for being one of the winners of the GCoE Fall 2021 Engineering Dissertation Award! This is a $5,000 award created to encourage doctoral students to graduate with excellence. More info can be found in the Gallogly College's blog.
Congratulations to Nick, Lawrence, Valeria and Alejandra for their publication entitled Identification of active sites on supported metal catalysts with carbon nanotube hydrogen highways in collaboration with Jeff Miller and Evan Wegener at Purdue and Argonne National Laboratory that appeared today in Nature Communications.
Congratulations to Nick, Lawrence, Chase, Brian and Devlin for their publication Stable pickering emulsions using multi-walled carbon nanotubes of varying wettability in Colloids and Surfaces A.
Dr. Crossley's CAREER award is highlighted in the American Indian Science and Engineering Society's Winds of Change Summer 2017 magazine.
Taiwo's paper entitled Experimental and First-Principles Evidence for Interfacial Activity of Ru/TiO2 for the Direct Conversion of m-Cresol to Toluene in collaboration with Lars Grabow's group appears on the cover of ChemCatChem. The paper was also selected as a very important paper for the special issue on biomass conversion. Congratulations Taiwo!
Abhishek's co-authored paper in collaboration with Jeff White's group entitled Trace water amounts can increase benzene H/D exchange rates in an acidic zeolite has been published in Journal of Catalysis. Congratulations Abhishek!
Abhishek wins two awards for his presentation at the 2017 Student Research and Creativity Day, 2nd place in the engineering group and the McNair's choice award. Congratulations Abhishek!
In collaboration with the groups of Vikas Khanna, Daniel Resasco and Lance Lobban, our paper Multistage torrefaction and in situ catalytic upgrading to hydrocarbon biofuels: analysis of life cycle energy use and greenhouse gas emissions has been published in Energy and Environmental Science.
Dr. Crossley receives NSF CAREER award titled "SusChEM:CAREER:Using unique synthesis techniques and reaction kinetics to quantify and manipulate catalytically active sites in metal-reducible oxide systems".
More information can be found in the NSF Career Award Press release.
Abhishek's paper in collaboration with Bin Wang's group entitled Direct carbon-carbon coupling of furanics with acetic acid over Brønsted zeolites has been published in Science Advances. Congratulations Abhishek!
Abhishek's paper Selective ketonization of acetic acid over HZSM-5: The importance of acyl species and the influence of water has been published in Journal of Catalysis. Congratulations Abhishek!
