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05/6/13
Graduate student Abhishek Kar is the Chemical Engineering
"Prevent Accidents With Safety" (PAWS) April Student of the month
Congratulations to graduate student Abhishek Kar of the Darrell Velegol Research Group who received the PAWS (Prevent Accidents With Safety) Student of the Month Award for April 2013.
"Abhishek is always proactive in taking and implementing safety decisions, which inspires us to take safety measures in whatever we perform in our lab", a nominator said.
Abhishek will receive a $25 gift card to a local business of his choice.
Congratulations Abhishek.
03/13/12
Darrell Velegol appointed as a Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Darrell Velegol has been appointed as a Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering.
The title of Distinguished Professor is given to a select group of faculty in each College who are "acknowledged leaders in their fields of research or creative activity", who "have demonstrated significant leadership in raising the standards of the University with respect to teaching, research or creative activity, and service," and who "have demonstrated excellent teaching skills and contributed significantly to the education of students who subsequently have achieved recognition of excellence in their fields".
01/27/12
Cleaner drinking water from a "miracle tree"
Using the seeds of the Moringa tree, Chemical Engineering Professor Darrell Velegol and collegues hope to produce cleaner drinking for a growing global population.
An artcle to appear in ACS' journal Langmuir, explains that a natural substance obtained from seeds of the "miracle tree" could purify and clarify water inexpensively and sustainably in the developing world, where more than 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water, scientists report.
View the article 'Miracle Tree' Substance Produces Clean Drinking Water Inexpensively and Sustainably on the Science Daily Website.
The publication "Antimicrobial Sand via Adsorption of Cationic Moringa oleifera Protein" is available on the Langmuir Website.
01/18/12
Velegol honored with as a Fellow of the AAAS
Darrell Velegol is one of eight Penn State Faculty to be named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world's largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science. Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers.
Velegol is honored for experimental and theoretical breakthroughs in understanding and modeling the dynamics of complex colloidal particles.
View all the fellows and their honors in the Penn State Live article "Eight faculty named Fellows of AAAS".
07/27/11
Velegol Research Group finds "Soft spheres settle in somewhat surprising structure"
There may be a future when latex paints and drug suspensions will not need to be shaken or stirred thanks to a new understanding of how particles separate in liquids.
Professor Darrell Velegol and his group have developed a method for predicting the way colloidal components separate based on energy.
"The ongoing assumption was that if you have a mixture of different sized particles in a liquid, the faster-settling particles will end up on the bottom," said Darrell Velegol, professor of chemical engineering. "We found that in many cases it doesn't matter how fast they settle. The particles keep jostling until they reach the low-energy state."
View more about Dr. Velegol's findings in the Penn State Live article: "Soft spheres settle in somewhat surprising structure."
View the published research "Sediments of soft spheres arranged by effective density" on Nature Materials website.
09/08/10
'Miracle tree' provides clean water in developing countries?
Professor Darrell Velegol and two other Penn State researchers are studying the moringa oleifera tree in an effort to provide clean drinking water to the developing world.
05/20/10
Faculty members win EPA P3 Awards
Professor Wayne Curtis won an EPA P3 award (people, planet, prosperity) for undergrads.
Another team led by Professor Darrell Velegol (with Rick Schuhmann and Stephanie Velegol) also won and award at the EPA P3 competition.
04/14/10
Penn State Engineering Alumni Society Outstanding Teaching Awards
Darrell Velegol receives one of this year's Outstanding Teaching Awards from the Penn State Engineering Alumni Society on April 9, 2010. The photo shows Dr. Velegol receiving the award from Dean David Wormley.
This is a wonderful recognition of his teaching accomplishments and his ongoing commitment to our students.
08/06/09
Velegol Group research featured in Engineering Magazine
The Spring and Summer 2009 issue of Engineering Magazine features an article about Dr. Velegol's research group. Professor Darrell Velegol and graduate student Huda Jerri have developed a new type of microsyringe that delivers concentrated medicine at a specific target, reducing the amount of toxins circulating in the body.
Download the Microsyringes may offer better method of drug delivery.pdf of this article for the complete story.
View the entire
Spring and Summer 2009 issue of Engineering Magazine
on the College of Engineering News web site.
05/16/09
Darrell Velegol promoted to Full Professor.