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Congratulations to Gang Wang for a successful thesis defense!

(Jun 2018) Congratulations to Gang Wang for successfully defending his thesis titled “Rheology of Concentrated Protein Solutions and Attractive Colloidal Dispersions”. He will join InterSystems Corporation, Cambridge in July.

Kevin Silmore wins 2017 Molecular Physics Early Career Researcher Prize

(Jun 2018) Kevin Silmore wins 2017 Molecular Physics Longuet-Higgins Early Career Researcher Prize for his article “Vapour-liquid phase equilibrium and surface tension of fully flexible Lennard-Jones chains”. The prize was established to recognize talented, early career writers who have written for the journal in the preceding year. Congratulations to Kevin! (link)

James Swan wins Outstanding Faculty Award again

(May 2018) James Swan wins Graduate Student Council Outstanding Faculty Award of 2018 recognizing his outstanding teaching skills in graduate course. Congratulations to Jim!
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Congratulations to Zsigmond Varga for a successful thesis defense!

(May 2018) Congratulations to Zsigmond Varga for successfully defending his thesis titled “Improved Models of Colloidal Gels: Kinetic Arrest, Relaxation Dynamics, Structural Breakdown and the Role of Hydrodynamic Interactions”. Zsigi is the first Ph.D. from the Swan group. He will join ExxonMobil, Brussels after a well-deserved vacation.

Zsigmond Varga wins ACS Colloids Student Award

(Jul 2017) Zsigmond Varga wins ACS Colloids Student Award with his talk titled “Modeling a hydrodynamic instability in freely settling colloidal gels” at the 91st ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium. Congratulations to Zsigi!

James Swan wins Outstanding Faculty Award

(May 2017) James Swan wins Graduate Student Council Outstanding Faculty Award of 2017, which recognizes his outstanding teaching skills in graduate course. Congratulations to Jim!
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Kevin Silmore wins DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

(May 2017) Kevin Silmore wins DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (2017). Established in 1991, the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship provides outstanding benefits and opportunities to students pursuing doctoral degrees in fields that use high-performance computing to solve complex science and engineering problems. Congratulations to Kevin! (link)

James Swan and Zsigmond Varga attended the XVIIth International Congress on Rheology

(Aug 2016) James Swan and Zsigmond Varga attended the XVIIth International Congress on Rheology (ICR) in Kyoto, Japan (link). The next ICR will be in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2020.

Zachary Sherman wins School of Engineering Graduate Student Award for Extraordinary Teaching and Mentoring

(Jun 2016) Zachary Sherman wins School of Engineering Graduate Student Award for Extraordinary Teaching and Mentoring. This award was established in 2006 to recognize an engineering graduate student who has demonstrated extraordinary teaching and mentoring as a teaching or research assistant. Congratulations to Zach! (link)
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James Swan wins 2016 NSF CAREER Award

(Apr 2016) James Swan wins 2016 NSF CAREER Award. Begun in 1995, the NSF CAREER program provides promising junior faculty the opportunity to pursue outstanding research, excellence in teaching, and the integration of education and research. Congratulations to Jim! (link)

Gang Wang wins APS March Meeting Poster Prize

(Mar 2016) Gang Wang's poster named “Coarse-grained modeling of transport properties in monoclonal antibody solution” wins first place in APS March Meeting (GSOFT Division). Congratulations to Gang!