04/2024
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Yijing Tang
12/2023
Congratulations to Yijing Tang for receiving the Chemstress Award, the top honor for graduate students in the college. Yijing is the 9th recipient of this prestigious award within our laboratory.
10/2023
Dr. Zheng has achieved recognition on Stanford University's 2023 list of the World's Top 2% Scientists, appearing in both the career-long data and the single-year data for 2022.
Notably, he holds the top 1 ranking in the single-year data for 2022 at the University of Akron.
https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6
09/2023
08/2023
Dr. Zheng was elected as a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry.
2023/05
Dr. Zheng received a NSF grant for development of antifreezing tough hydrogel.
2022/12
Dong Zhang receives the Chemstress Award, which is the top award for graduate student (1 awardee in College of Engineering). Dong is the 8th awardee of this prestigious award at our lab.
Dong Zhang receive the Teaching Assistant Award.
Yijing Tang receive Graduate Fellowship Research Award; this is the second time for Yijing to receive this award.
2022/11
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Dong Zhang
2022/07
Dong Zhang receives Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Chinese Student Study Abroad.
Dr. Zheng received a ACS-PRF grant for development of tough elastomers.
2021/12, Student Awards
Dong Zhang and Yijing Tang receive Graduate Fellowship Research Award.
Yijing Tang also receives Excellent Presentation Award for Graduate Students.
Dr. Zheng was listed as the top 3% of highly cited works from American Institutions
Dr. Zheng was selected in the Provost Accomplishment List.
Dr. Zheng was selected in the top 2% scientist in Chemical Engineering.
2021/05
Zheng lab website moves to a new google site again, lots of memory flash back to those old memorial days!
2021/06
Dr. Zheng received Outstanding Reviewers for Journal of Materials Chemistry B in 2020 [DOI]
2021/04
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Yanxian Zhang
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Yonglan Liu
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Kuanwu Chu
Dr. Zheng received the Faculty Summer Research Award.
We gave 4 presentations at ACS virtual meeting.
2021/01
Yanxian Zhang to receive the Chemstress Award, which is the top award for graduate student (1 awardee in College of Engineering). She is the 7th awardee of this prestigious award at our lab.
Xiang Yu (2011), Qiuming Wang (2012, female), Chao Zhao (2013), Mingzhen Zhang (2014), Hong Chen (2016, female), Baiping Ren (2018, female), Yanxian Zhang (2020, female)
Yonglan Liu and Dong Zhang also receive Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award.
Dr. Zheng receives Louis A. Hill Faculty Award for his excellent research, teaching, and service to College of Engineering.
2020/08
We gave 12 presentations at ACS virtual meeting.
2020/05
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Seyed Mostafa Razavi.
2020/01
Yanxian Zhang receives Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award. (This is her consecutive awards in two years)
2019/10
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Gayatri Shrikhande.
2019/06
4th International Conference on Bioinspired and Zwitterionic Materials (2019 ICBZM), Rolduc Abbey, Kerkrade, Netherlands
2019/05
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Baiping Ren
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Fengyu Yang
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Xia Lei
2019/03-04
We gave 6 presentations at ACS Spring Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.
Baiping Ren, Yanxian Zhang, Fengyu Yang, and Yonglan Liu received Professional Enrichment Grant for their presentations at ACS conference.
2019/01
Baiping Ren receive a Chemstress Award, which is the top award for graduate student (1 awardee in College of Engineering). She is the 6th receipt of this prestigious award from our lab.
Xiang Yu (2011), Qiuming Wang (2012, female), Chao Zhao (2013), Mingzhen Zhang (2014), Hong Chen (2016, female), and Baiping Ren (2018, female)
Yanxian Zhang receives Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award.
2018/10
Dr. Zheng receives the 2018 Outstanding Research Award, U. of Akron. Zheng also received this award in 2017.
Madelyn Jeske (female, senior) received a Ohio Space Grant Consortium Award for our tough and functional hydrogel project.
2018/03
We gave four presentations at ACS conference, New Orleans.
2018/01
Baiping Ren and Yonglan Liu receive Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award.(Baiping also received this award last year).
Baiping Ren and Yanxian Zhang received Professional Enrichment Grant for their presentations at DTRA conference.
2017/12
Dr. Mingzhen Zhang received 2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Chinese Student Study Abroad (http://www.csc.edu.cn/chuguo/s/1189)
Our previous member Dr. Qiuming Wang also received this national award in 2013.
2017/11
We gave two presentations at DTRA conference, Long Beach.
2017/05
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Mingzhen Zhang.
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Rundong Hu.
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Hong Chen.
2017/04
We gave 9 presentations at ACS conference, San Francisco.
Mingzhen Zhang receive a Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award for the Spring 2017 ACS National Meeting.
Hong, Mingzhen, Rundong, Baiping, and Yonglan received Professional Enrichment Grant for their incoming presentations at ACS Spring Meeting
2017/02
Dr. Zheng receives Outstanding Research Award.
Hong receives Chemstress Award, the highest award in our department and college, and she was the fifth receipt in the Zheng lab.
Xiang Yu (2011), Qiuming Wang (2012), Chao Zhao (2013), Mingzhen Zhang (2014), and Hong Chen (2016).
Baiping Ren and Mingzhen Zhang also receive Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award.
2016/03
We gave 11 presentations, including an invited talk, at 251st ACS national meeting, San Diego.
Hong, Mingzhen, Rundong, Baiping, and Fengyu received Professional Enrichment Grant.
2016/01
Dr. Jindai Wang received the prestigious Distinguished Young Scholars by NSF of China.
Dr. Guizhao Liang was promoted to full professor, Chongqing University, China.
Dr. Jintao Yang was promoted to full professor, Zhejiang University of Technology, China.
Mingzhen Zhang received Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award.
2015/08
Hong Chen received the best poster award from the 2nd International Conference on Bioinspired and Zwitterionic Materials (ICBZM), Seattle. (4 awardees), pictured with Prof. Ishihara.
Hong Chen received travel grant supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to attend ICBZM 2015 in Seattle on August 13 and 14, 2015.
2015/01
Mingzhen Zhang received a prestigious Chemstress Award, the highest award in our department and college, and he was the fourth receipt in the Zheng lab.
2014/03
We gave 6 presentations at ACS conference, Dallas, TX.
2013/05
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Jun Zhao.
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Chao Zhao.
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Qiuming Wang.
Jun Zhao received a travel award for “From Computational Biophysics to System Biology” workshop.
Dr. Zheng received Faculty Mentor of the Year Award 2013.
Both Qiuming Wang and Chao Zhao received the prestigious UASIS Outstanding Student Research Award (total 2 awardees at U. of Akron).
Chao Zhao received the prestigious ChemStress Award (1 awardee in College of Engineering).
Xiang Yu, Qiuming Wang, and Chao Zhao secured the ChemStress Award in 2011, 2012, and 2013, respectively.
2013/04
We have 7 oral and 1 poster presentations at 245th ACS conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2012/12
Qiuming Wang received the 2012 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Chinese Students Study Abroad.
Chao Zhao received the prestigious Dean Fellowship Award from College of Engineering. Chao also received this Dean Fellowship Award in 2011.
Jun Zhao received Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award. Jun has received this departmental award three times since 2010.
Xiang Yu received the prestigious UASIS Outstanding Student Research Award (total 2 awardees at U. Akron).
Qiuming Wang received the prestigious ChemStress Award (1 awardee in College of Engineering).
A team of Xiang Yu, Zhaoqin Liu, and Qin Liu won the 2nd place of Delphi Innovation Competition Award (total 3 awardees national).
2012/05
D day: Congratulation to Dr. Xiang Yu, the first Ph.D from the Zheng lab.
2012/03
We have presented 6 oral and 3 poster presentations at the 243rd ACS conference, San Diego, CA. We are pictured at La Jolla Beach.
Xiang Yu and Chao Zhao received the prestigious Dean Fellowship Award from College of Engineering. Yu published 10 papers, while Zhao published 8 papers in high-impact journals.
Jun Zhao and Qiuming Wang received Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award. This is the second time for them to receive this departmental award.
Qiuming Wang won the 1st place of poster competition in the CBE.
Xiang Yu received the prestigious ChemStress Award (1 awardee in College of Engineering).
2011/03
We have presented 5 presentations at the 55th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
Chao Zhao and Jun Zhao received the Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award. Chao published 4 papers, while Jun published 3 papers in the first year.
Emma Hallett received a Ohio Space Grant for the Alzheimer project.
Emma Hallett won the Donald F. Othmer Sophomore Academic Excellence Award from AIChE.
2010/03
We have presented 7 presentations at the 239th ACS conference, San Francisco, CA.
Xiang Yu and Qiuming Wang received Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
Xiang Yu and Qiuming Wang received Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award.
2009/03
We have presented 7 presentations at the 237th ACS conference, Salt Lake City, UT.
2007/10
Dr. Zheng joined the CBE department of The University of Akron.
