UTOLEDO CHEMICAL ENGINEERING NEWS - 2019
Graduate students earn poster awards at Detroit Science Symposium
December 2019: Niloofar Alipourasiabi (center left) and Ehsan Akbari Fakhrabadi (center
right) earned 1st and 2nd place prizes, respectively, at the Detroit Science Symposium
- Chemistry and Materials Engineering in Industry in Detroit, Michigan.
Graduate students earn poster awards at Eaton Corporation
November 2019: Ehsan Akbari Fakhrabadi (left) and Hossein Abedsoltan (right) earned
1st and 2nd place prizes, respectively, at Eaton Corporation's Experience and Poster
Session in Southfield, Michigan. Students are pictured with Scott Adams, Senior Vice President at Eaton.
Alumnus discusses ties between chemical engineering and medical school
September 2019: Zachary Holtzapple authored an article in the September issue of AIChE's
Chemical and Engineering Progress about how chemical engineering prepared him for
medical school. The article is available online.
Undergraduate students earn water-related poster award
September 2019: Kylee Kramer (left) and Alison Haas in front of their poster that earned a 2nd place
prize at the 2019 Annual Conference of the Ohio Section of the American Water Works
Association in Cleveland, Ohio.
Undergraduate student earns AIChE scholarship 
September 2019: Daniel Reichenbach won the Donald F. & Mildred Topp Othmer Scholarship Award, which is award for the combination of academic achievement and involvement in student
chapter activities.
Three graduate students earn Forbes under 30 scholar award
September 2019: Hope Otor, Fabrice Kapiamba, Marcos Da Conceicao Acosta will attend
the Forbes under 30 summit next month.
Professor Coleman becomes Department Chair
July 2019: Maria Coleman, having been on the Chemical Engineering faculty since 1999,
assumed the role of Department Chair on July 1st.
Professor Alba-Rubio wins NSF CAREER award related to sustainability
February 2019: Learn more about this exciting research and educational project in
the UToledo news.