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Congratulations to Professor Ford on her election as an AIChE Fellow!
Read NowCongratulations to the Ford Group's Principal Investigator, Professor Roseanne Ford, on her election as an AIChE fellow at the 2024 Annual Meeting! Professor Bill Epling was also inducted at the same meeting.
Fellow is AIChE's highest grade of membership, and is achieved only through election by the AIChE Board of Directors. The grade of Fellow is awarded to members in recognition of significant professional accomplishments and contributions in engineering.
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Sanha Kim and Eliza Mills present their work at AIChE!
Read NowCongratulations to Sanha Kim (fifth-year graduate) and Eliza Mills (fourth-year undergraduate) for their stellar poster presentations at the 2024 Annual AIChE conference in San Diego! Sanha presented his work, Microbes, Mucin, and Motility: Capturing Biofilm Dynamics Using Multi-Scale Modeling during the post-doc candidate session. Eliza presented her work, Using Confocal Microscopy and Agent-Based Modeling to Evaluate the Role of Porous Media in Bacterial Transport, during the undergraduate research session.
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Lab Updates
Read NowIt's been a while since our last lab update - so here's some highlights to catch up!
First and foremost, congratulations to Dr. Tracy Kuper and Dr. Rhea Braun on their successful Ph.D. defenses!
Dr. Kuper defended her dissertation, Multiscale approaches linking transport and metabolism guide biofilm intervention strategies, on April 12th, 2024. She now works as a Computational Biologist for United Therapeutics in Silver Spring, MD.
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Ford graduate students present poster at AGU 2022
Read NowFord lab graduate students Beibei Gao and Rhea Braun presented a poster "Using Agent-Based Modeling to Evaluate the Role of Shear Flows in Limiting Chemotactic Response to NAPL Chemoattractant Sources Under Flow Near a Surface " at the 2022 AGU conference in Chicago, IL. Congrats!
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Beibei Gao successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation!
Read NowCongratulations to Ford lab graduate student Beibei Gao on a succesful defense of her Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Multiscale Modeling and Experimental Approaches to Link Macrosocpic and Macroscopic Bacterial Chemotaxis". Beibei was instrumental in the development of computational models and microfluidic devices for bioremediation investigations and for sharing her infamous hotpot with the Ford lab! Beibei has started her new post-doc position in Prof. Geelsu Hwang's lab at the Univeristy of Pennslyvania School of Dental Medicine. Congratulations Dr. Beibei Gao!
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Ford lab teaches students about oil spill clean-up
Read NowThe Ford lab lead a lab demo in an UVA Society of Women Engineer STEM outrech event for girl middle-school students. The lab demo simulated an oil spill and the students were tasked with designing strategies for oil spill clean-up. Ford lab members informed the students on different tools and methods to clean-up the oil spill. It was amazing to the collaborative and creative approaches the students took to clean up the oil!
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Welcome the new Ford lab member: Meaghan!
Read NowWelcome the new Ford lab member: Meaghan Yant! Meaghan graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Bucknell University. She will be studying on Staphylococcus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa hitchiking motility in lung mucus.
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Sanha Kim's work selected in UVA Art Contest
Read NowCongratulations to PhD student Sanha Kim for being selected to display his work in the UVA Chemistry Department Scentific Art Contest! Sanha's piece, titled 'Fearful Symmetry' now displayed in the UVA Chemistry Building, is a microscopy image of bacterial growth and movement in a soft agar gel. The piece reflects 'an element of radial symmetry that gives a sense of order among the disorder'.
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Dean's Fellows Kept Research Rolling Through Summer
Read NowThis summer, three chemical engineering majors worked full time as Dean's Undergraduate Engineering Research Fellows through a new initiative created by UVA Engineering Dean Jennifer West. The program provides wages for undergraduates to continue working in faculty labs during the summer.
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Congratulations to Rhea Braun on a successful PhD proposal defense!
Read NowCongratulations to Rhea Braun on a successful Ph.D. proposal defense! The title of Rhea's proposal was "Separating Mixed Bacterial Populations Using Chemotaxis" that included diverse microfluidic, computational modeling, and sonification research aims. The Ford group celebrated over tea and lunch at Tea Bazaar.