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Funding
ITTL receives American Chemical Society's Petroleum Research Fund for New Directions to study chemical separations on enhanced surfaces
Funding
ITTL receives funding for thermal-membrane separation to produce reusable water.
PI Gupta receives funding on data analytics to boost gender equity among STEM Faculty
2023 ANSYS Summer Faculty Fellowship
Dr. Gupta spent 10 weeks on-site to gain expertise in simulations for materials and thermal modeling. (top) with Harshad Ahire, ANSYS GRANTA expert (bottom) with Hemant Punekar, ANSYS FLUENT expert.
Dr. Gupta's NSF supplemental funding with Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL)
Saketh is visiting ORNL to test his Carbon Nanofiber (CNF) mixed matrix membrane for water treatment applications
Wiley journal cover
Effect of Ball Milled and Sintered Graphene Nanoplatelets–Copper Composite Coatings on Bubble Dynamics and Pool Boiling Heat Transfer designed by Ali Rozati
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) journal cover and indexed on Sigma Aldrich's product page
Interaction of Amphiphilic Coumarin with DPPC/DPPS Lipid Bilayer: Effects of Concentration and Alkyl Tail Length- featured on On Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Sigma: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/avanti/840037p
ACS Omega Cover Art
This comprehensive molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and experimental study investigates the lipid bilayer interaction of delocalized and hydrophobic cations. This work represents a novel and alternative pathway to exploit pigments and dyes used for photographic emulsions as potential photosensitizers for various light therapies.
Featured on World Health Organization's COVID-19 Research Database, and Nature Public Health Emergency Collection: Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative
Our work "Thermotropic effects of PEGylated lipids on the stability of HPPH-encapsulated lipid nanoparticles (LNP)" received international and national recognition in response to Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative
(https://search.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/resource/en/covidwho-2231609)
ACS PRF @ 65 features Dr. Gupta's story
2023 NSF stEm PEER Academy
Dr. Gupta's project is selected in Practitioners Enhancing Engineering Regionally (PEER) program. She will engage in a 2-year professional development and research experience to support the design and implementation of her engineering-focused project :
"I’M Mechanical Engineering Researcher and Student (IMMERS): A First Year Immersive Hand-on Experience for PEERs at Co-op University".
2022 NSF CMMI Game Changer Panel Fellow
Dr. Gupta was selected over a pool of 600 candidates in the 2022 cohort of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation’s (CMMI) Game Changer Academies for Advancing Research Innovation (CGCA) program
ACS Science Coach
Dr. Gupta (mentor) and Mr. Brian Lynch (coach) from Children's School of Rochester School 15 accepted to the 2020-2021 Science Coaches program by American Chemical Society
ACS Project SEED
Dr. Gupta has will be serving as the Project SEED Virtual Summer Camp ‘Adopt-a-Cabin’ mentor
NBC news features Dr. Gupta's Senior design project
Group fabricated Helmholtz coils to create a uniform magnetic field used to test sensors and other equipment for space applications where Earth's magnetic field does not interfere. Watch here: https://nbc24.com/news/local/utoledo-engineering-students-present-fall-2021-senior-design-projects
Ali wins big! 2021 Graduate Teaching Assistant and Research Mentor Awards
Ali was nominated by undergraduate students of Measurements Lab course and ITTL student researchers
Center for Materials and Sensor Characterization Fellowship Award (2021-2023)
Praneeth is awarded the prestigious assistantship for his doctoral studies
Congratulations, Drs. Poornima Kalyanram (2020) and Aniket Rishi (2021) on their successful PhD defense
2021 Ohio Space Grant
Justyn Bobinski and Joshua Stanley awarded the Ohio Space Grant internships
Graduate Student Recognition and Graduations
Clement and Praneeth won the Outstanding Teaching Assistant award
Ankita, Bismark, and Clement successfully defended their MS theses
Senior design project
Dr. Gupta's senior design group designed cooling system for UT's formula racing car