Professor's Keith Tyo and Joshua Leonard Awarded Prestigious Grant

The Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) grants were announced this week, and two of our very own were listed as recipients. The funding supports scientists, researchers and entrepreneurs worldwide who are testing unconventional ideas that show great promise to improve the health of people in the developing world. Congratulations Keith and Josh!

Dr. Christopher Henry named Jay Bailey Young Investigator in Metabolic Engineering

Dr. Christopher Henry, an adjunct professor in our department and a researcher at Argonne National Laboratory, has been named the recipient of the Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award in Metabolic Engineering. The purpose of the award is to recognize outstanding research accomplishments in the field of metabolic engineering by a young investigator who has advanced the frontiers of metabolic engineering through originality and creativity of experimental or computational concept application. Chris was nominated for his paper in Nature Biotechnology ((2010) 28:977–982) that marks the release of Model SEED, a widely-used resource for the reconstruction of genome-scale metabolic models. The manuscript also included models for 130 diverse prokaryotes. Congratulations, Chris!

Professor John Torkelson Recongnized for Teaching Excellence

Northwestern University has recognized seven faculty members for teaching excellence, six with 2012 Charles Deering McCormick Awards and one with an Alumnae of Northwestern Teaching Professorship. Congratulations John on being recognized for your dedication to molding tomorrows Engineers!

NUMat Entrepreneurs Win Rice Business Plan Competition

NUMat Entrepreneurs, along with our very own Chris Wilmer win almost $1 million in the Rice Business Plan Competition.