The Johns Hopkins University student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) won several awards at the 2023 AIChE Annual Student Conference in Orlando, FL, from Nov. 3 to 6, 2023. The Johns Hopkins Undergraduate Delegation was led by Student Chapter President Yuseong “Nick” Oh.
Awards
Yuseong “Nick” Oh (Spangler Lab) – “Engineering Pan-Reactive VEGF Antagonists to Treat Neovascular Eye Diseases”
First Place, Undergraduate Student Poster Session: Food, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology Section X
Yiran “Gigi” Wang (Clancy Lab) – “PAL 2.0: A Physics-Driven Machine Learning Algorithm for Material Discovery”
Second Place, Undergraduate Student Poster Session: Materials Engineering and Science Section II
Josh Zhou (Bukowski Group) – “A Machine-Learning Approach to Simulate Confined Liquid Lithium Polysulfides for Battery Applications”
Second Place, Undergraduate Student Poster Session: Computing and Process Control Section II
Yuhan Wu (Schulman Lab) – “Programmable Dynamic Self-Assembled DNA Nanostructures”
Third Place, Undergraduate Student Poster Session: Food, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology Section III
JHU Chem E Jeopardy Team (Aidan Gee, Adam Tobin-Williams, Jarett Ren, Tiara Safaei) – Top 10 in North America
Adam Tobin-Williams, left, and Yuseong “Nick” Oh with their awards
Yuseong “Nick” Oh – 2022-2023 Donald F. & Mildred Topp Othmer Scholarship Award
The Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Scholarship Awards of $1,000 each are awarded to chemical engineering students for their outstanding academic achievement and involvement in student chapter activities.
Adam Tobin-Williams – 2022-2023 First Year Student Recognition Award
The First Year Student Recognition Award is presented to one active AIChE undergraduate student member in each student chapter who has been the most active in their student chapter during their freshman year, on recommendation of the student chapter advisor.
Other Accepted Presentations and Posters
Yuseong “Nick” Oh (Spangler Lab) – “Engineering Pan-Reactive VEGF Antagonists to Treat Neovascular Eye Diseases”
Undergraduate Research Presentation
Anshika Agrawal (Phillip tiME Lab) – “The Effects of Chronological Age on Cell Motility upon 2D Microenvironments”
Undergraduate Student Poster Session: Food, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology
Abhignya “Abhi” Panatula (Larman Lab) – “Protease Activity Profiling Using Molecular Indexing of Proteins By Self Assembly (MIPSA)”
Undergraduate Student Poster Session: Food, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology
Jackson Boodry (Gounder Group, Purdue; Bukowski Group, Hopkins) – “Synthesis of Desilicated Chabazite for Non-Oxidative Conversion of Methane (NOCM)”
Undergraduate Student Poster Session: Fuels, Petrochemicals, and Energy