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Dr. Suresh Kumar Danadurai has joined our group to pursue post-doctoral research pertaining to the use of ICP-MS with air pollution applications. (August 2009)
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Ms. Neranga Gamage has joined our group to pursue her doctoral degree. (August 2009)
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Raju successfully defended his doctoral dissertation "Interactions of Bacteria and Viruses with Membranes and Nanoparticles: Characterization of Extracellular Polymeric Substances and Photoinactivation of Bacteriophages by Fullerol Nanoparticles." (April 30, 2009)
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Xu Liu joined joined the research group to pursue a doctoral degree. (August 2007)
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Yongki Shim has joined KIT Professionals, Inc. in Houston. (April 2008)
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Mr. B.A. Raju was awarded the first prize in the 2008 WEAT student paper competition. (April 2008)
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Raju's biofilm research is highlighted by using his electron micrograph as cover art by Biotechnology and Bioengineering. (February 2008)
View the cover art
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Raju and Bhoom Reddy are spending two months at the Pacific Northwest National Labs performing several microscopy and spectroscopy measurements. (November 2007 – January 2008)
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Dr. Pranav Kulkarni has joined Trinity Consultants in Houston. (October 2007)
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Ms. Ashima Bagga has joined Arcadis in Houston. (October 2007)
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Peter Deng and Yao Yang have joined the research group to pursue their doctoral degrees. (August 2007)
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Ashima Bagga successfully defended her masters thesis "Evaluation of Iron Chemical Coagulation and Electrocoagulation Pretreatment for Surface Water Microfiltration." (July 17, 2007)
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Pranav Kulkarni successfully defended his doctoral dissertation "Trace Elemental Composition of Airborne Fine Particles and their Apportionment to Various Sources Focusing on Lanthanum and Lanthanides Distribution and Petroleum Refinery Emissions." (July 12, 2007)
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Yongki Shim successfully defended his doctoral dissertation "Mechanisms of Amino Acids Removal during Nanofiltration: Effects of Size, Charge, and Hydrophobicity." (July 10, 2007)
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Ms. Ashima Bagga was awarded the third prize in the 2007 WEAT student paper competition. (April 2007)
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Ms. Ashima Bagga was awarded the second prize in the student paper competetion for her presentation titled "Chemical Coagulation & Electrocoagulation Pretreatment for Microfiltration" at the Environmental Challenges and Innovations Conference: Gulf Coast 2007. (February 2007)
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Bhoom Reddy Korpol has joined the group to pursue his Ph.D. (January 2007)
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Ram Ganesh Rokkam has joined the group
to pursue his Ph.D. (August 2006)
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Sima Mathew, Science department head
and Pre-AP Biology teacher at North Shore High School
developed teaching materials for the hydrologic cycle,
bacteriology, and water purification. (July 2006)
Watch
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B.A. Raju is spending 7 weeks at the Pacific Northwest National Labs performing several microscopy measurements. (May-June 2006)
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Wendong (William) Xu has joined TCB/AECON here in Houston. (May 2006)
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Ramesh Sharma has joined Trussell Tech. in Southern California. (May 2006)
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Yongki Shim successfully defended his doctoral proposal "Nanofiltration of Amino Acids: Effects of Charge, Size, and Adsorption." (April 2006)
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Pranav Kulkarni successfully defended his doctoral proposal "Trace Elemental Composition of Airborne Fine Particles and their Apportionment to Various Sources." (April 2006)
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Emilie Krause presented her undergraduate research "Darcy and non-Darcy flow across microfiltration membranes" at the 2006 Water Environment Association of Texas conference in Austin, TX. (April 2006)
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Ashima Bagga joined our research group
to pursue her Masters degree. (January 2006)
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Wendong Xu successfully defended his doctoral
dissertation "Blocking Laws Analysis of Dead-End
Microfiltration: A Study of Cake Compressibility, Deposit
Rearrangement, Bacterial Fouling, and Operational Mode."
(October 2005)
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Sneha joined the research group to pursue
her Ph.Ds (August 2005)
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Sima Mathew, Science department head and Pre-AP Biology teacher at North Shore High School, spent one month learning the fundamentals of bacteria growth and enumeration in our labs. Working closely with B.A. Raju, she also developed a document "Bacteriology Unit Labs" to improve the biology curriculum in her school. (July 2005)
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Sneha has been awarded a Presidential
Fellowship from the Dean of Graduate and Professional
Studies to pursue her doctoral degree. (April 2005)
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Pranav Kulkarni was awarded the second
prize in the 2005 WEAT student paper competetion for his
presentation "Predicting Disinfection By-product
Formation in Municipal Drinking Water using Artificial
Neural Networks." (April 2005)
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Ramesh Sharma Defended his doctoral dissertation
"Temperature Effects on Transport of Water, Charged,
and Uncharged Solutes across Polymeric Thin Film Composite
Nanofiltration Membranes: An Investigation into Pore-Transport
Mechanisms and Electrokinetic Properties" (November
2004)
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Wendong Xu successfully defended his proposal
"Dead-end Microfiltration of Bacterial and Colloidal
Silica Suspensions: Fouling and Rejection." (July
2004)
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Yongki Shim successfully passed the departmental
doctoral screening examination (July 2004)
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Wendong Xu and Ramesh Sharma presented
portions of their doctoral research at the 78th American
Chemical Society Colloid and Surface Science Symposium,
held at Yale University, New Haven, CT (June 2004)
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Pranav Kulkarni presented " Emissions
of Fine Particulate Matter from Motor Vehicles: A Tunnel
Study in Houston, TX" at the American Geophysical
Union Joint Assembly in Montreal, Canada. (May 2004)
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Ramesh Sharma successfully defended his
proposal "An Investigation of the Factors Contributing
to Seasonal Changes in the Selectivity of Thin Film Composite
Nanofiltration Membranes." (August 2003)
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Pranav Kulkarni successfully defended
his Masters Thesis "Composition of Fine Particulate
Matter in Ambient Atmosphere and Motor Vehicle Emissions
in the Houston Area" and will continue working in
my labs towards his Ph.D. (August 2003)
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B.A. Raju joined our research group to
pursue his Ph.D. (August 2003)
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Steven Statt, Chemistry and A.P. Environmental Science teacher at Elsik High School, spent the entire summer in our labs learning the basics of water purification and developing course materials. Click
here for more details. (Summer 2003)
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Rachana Agrawal was awarded the third
prize in the 2003 WEAT student paper competetion for her
presentation "Changes in Pore Size Distributions
and Transport Parameters of Water Treatment Nanofiltration
Membranes with Temperature." (April 2003)
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Pranav Kulkarni was awarded the Presidential
Fellowship from the Dean of Graduate and Professional
Studies to pursue a doctoral degree. (April 2003)
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Rachana Agrawal successfully defended
her Masters thesis titled "Performance Characterization
of a Polymeric Thin Film Composite Nanofiltration Membrane
Between 5–23°C." She will join the Department
of Chemical Engineering for her doctorate. (August 2002)
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Yongki Shim has joined the group to pursue
a Ph.D. (July 2002)
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Grishma Shetty successfully defended her
Masters thesis titled "Predicting Contaminant Removal
During Municipal Drinking Water Nanofiltration Using Semi-Empirical
Models and Artificial Neural Networks." (June 2002)
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Wendong Xu presented Modeling and Experimental
verification of Dead-end Membrane Filtration of Coagulated
Suspensions" in the Universities Forum II session
during the AWWA national conference in New Orleans. (June
2002)
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Ramesh Sharma, doctoral candidate, was
awarded the second prize in the 2002 WEAT student paper
competetion for his presentation "Removal of charged
and uncharged solutes by nanofiltration membranes"
(April 2002).
