Univ of Illinois Micro + Nanotechnology Lab 2016 Highlights Report | Page 15

MNTL Faculty Affiliate BRENDAN HARLEY was selected for the NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium held in September . A Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering associate professor , Harley is exploring the fabrication , characterization , and testing of scaffold-based systems for in vivo and in vitro tissue engineering .
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ECE Professor Emeritus NICK HOLONYAK JR . was named an honorary member of The Optical Society for developing technology that advanced solid-state lighting , the Internet , high-performance computing , and visible LEDs and quantum-well diode lasers . Holonyak also won the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Medal for developing the first visible red laser and LED and the use of various alloys in colored light sources , which led to reduced energy consumption worldwide and contributed to the realization of optical data communications as the backbone of the Internet .
ECE Professor KEVIN KIM was elected to the College of Fellows at the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering .
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ECE Professor JEAN-PIERRE LEBURTON , an MNTL faculty affiliate , was selected by the IEEE to receive a Life Membership for his leadership , volunteerism , and dedication for advancing technology to benefit humanity .
ECE Professor XIULING LI was selected as a 2017 Fellow of the IEEE .
Bioengineering MD / PhD graduate student KENNETH LONG received a prestigious NIH Fellowship . A member of Professor Brian Cunningham ’ s group , Long is building a portable smartphone biosensing platform and translating that technology into point-of-care HIV viral load testing . Long also received the campus Illinois International Graduate Achievement Award . He has worked on international development projects in Cameroon and Cambodia , and is developing a global health partnership with a university in Sierra Leone .
RITU RAMAN , a graduate student in Bioengineering Professor RASHID BASHIR ’ S group , placed first in the 2016 Research Live competition , which showcased the work of 63 graduate students from across campus in three-minute presentations . Bashir ’ s group has developed a range of stereolithographic 3D printers and micro / nano-fabrication technologies to pattern cells and biomaterials in complex 3D structures .
Bioengineering Assistant Professor ANDREW SMITH was named an Engineering at Illinois Faculty Entrepreneurial Fellow to focus on developing technology and evaluating its commercial potential . Smith and his students are developing quantum dots that produce multicolored light for more precise medical-related imaging .
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