These are some recent events organized by the group, awards and honors
won by members of the group,
and some media coverage of our research activities.
Fisher College of Business, Breakfast Club - Executive Education, Resilient
Today - Sustainable Tomorrow, March 20, 2009
The article, Carbon
Nanofiber Polymer
Composites:
Evaluation of Life Cycle Energy Use by Khanna and Bakshi to be
published in Environmental Science
and Technology was covered on Nanowerk
The article, Carbon
Nanofiber Production : Life Cycle Energy Consumption and Environmental
Impact, by Khanna, Bakshi and Lee, published in the Journal of
Industrial Ecology, was discussed in various news outlets such as CNBC, Forbes,
Science
Daily, Small
Times, COSMOS
magazine, Environmental
Science and Technology, Earth
and Sky Radio Podcast, etc.
Vikas Khanna wins Third Place Poster Award for poster titled "Environmental Life Cycle Evaluation of Carbon Nanofiber Reinforced Polymer Nanocomposites" at the Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology held in New London, NH from August 17-22, 2008.
Jun-Ki Choi and Vikas Khanna were awarded Chair’s Travel Grants for
Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology
held in New London, NH from August 17-22, 2008.
Vikas Khanna was awarded a Travel Scholarship, Society of Risk Analysis (SRA) Annual meeting December 7-10 2008 to be held in Boston, MA.
Jun-Ki Choi wins the First Place Award in the research poster competition for the poster titled, "A Framework for Assessing the Biocomplexity of Material Use" presented at the International Input-Output Conference held at Seville, Spain from July 9-11, 2008.
Geoffrey Grubb wins First Place Award in the IEEE student technical paper contest for his paper titled, "Energy and Environmental Analysis of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles" presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment held at San Francisco, CA from May 19-21, 2008.
Vikas Khanna wins Third Place
Award in the IEEE
student technical paper contest for his paper titled, "Assessing the
Environmental Life Cycle Implications of Polymer Nanocomposites"
presented at the IEEE
International
Symposium on Electronics and the Environment held at San Francisco,
CA
from May 19-21, 2008.
Vikas Khanna wins the Ohio State University Presidential Fellowship for
2008-09. This is the most prestigious and scholarly recognition
provided by the Graduate School.
Jorge Hau wins Second Place Award
in the AIChE Environmental Division's Graduate Student Paper
competition, 2007 for his paper, "Enhancing Life Cycle Inventories via
Reconciliation with the Laws
of Thermodynamics" (Hau, J. L., Yi, H.-S., and Bakshi, B. R., J. Industrial Ecology, 11, 4, 2007).
Nandan Ukidwe receives an Honorable Mention in the AIChE Environmental Division's Graduate Student Paper competition, 2007 for his paper, "Industrial and Ecological Cumulative Exergy Consumption of the United States via the 1997 Input-Output Benchmark Model" (Ukidwe, N. U., and Bakshi, B. R., Energy, 32, 1560-1592, 2007)
Vikas Khanna wins First Place
Award in the IEEE
student technical paper contest for his paper titled, "Life Cycle
Energy
Analysis and Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Carbon Nanofibers
Production" presented at the IEEE International
Symposium on Electronics and the Environment held at Orlando, FL
from May 7th-May 10th, 2007.
Vikas Khanna chosen for the Christine
Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
at the National Academies for Summer 2007.
Lixin Lang wins Whitney Research Award from the
Department of Statistics for this year's best dissertation work on
"Parameter Estimation with Sequential Monte Carlo," May 2007.
Nandan Ukidwe wins Ohio State University's Presidential Fellowship, 2004-05
Jorge Hau was selected as the second place winner of the 2004 Graduate Student Paper Award Competition held by AIChE's Environmental Division for his paper titled, "A Multiscale and Multiobjective Approach for Environmentally Conscious Process Retrofitting", 2004