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Three 易胜博官网 faculty members have received prestigious National Science Foundation awards to support work that aims to understand turbulent flows, flexible biomolecules and a unique category of honeycomb-shaped materials. John Gibson, assistant professor of mathematics, Yaning Li, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and Harish Vashisth, assistant professor of chemical engineering received the NSF鈥檚 awards. The grants of $500,000 support junior faculty who 鈥渆xemplify the role of teacher-scholar through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations,鈥� according to the NSF.

鈥淚t鈥檚 an honor for 易胜博官网 to have three assistant professors recognized by the National Science Foundation with these very competitive CAREER awards,鈥� says Jan Nisbet, senior vice provost for research. 鈥淚 wish them congratulations and best of luck as they advance their research and teaching with this funding."

鈥淭hese awards are one measure of the fact that 易胜博官网 is hiring top-flight faculty to teach and conduct research with our students. Metaphorically, 易胜博官网 punches well above its weight class in this competition,鈥� says Sam Mukasa, dean of the , which is home to all three awardees.

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John Gibson

CAREER award recipient may be a mathematician, but his work tackles a problem he calls one of the biggest in physics and engineering: turbulence.

While the term conjures seatbelt-fastening air travel for most of us, Gibson explains that he鈥檚 focused on a type of turbulence akin to pushing water down a pipe.听Read more

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Yaning Li

Yaning Li has made her mark studying the mechanics and applications of structures and patterns that exist all around us, whether we are aware of them or not. Li, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received a CAREER Award for her work studying the mechanics of materials as well as bio-inspired engineering utilizing new manufacturing technologies such as 3D printing. Read more

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Harish Vashisth

Although it could one day lead to advances in drugs that treat HIV, Harish Vashisth鈥檚 research is far more likely to use supercomputers than the pipettes or microscopes more commonly associated with biomedical research. Vashisth, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at 易胜博官网, received a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for molecular simulations of nucleic acids, specifically a particular ribonucleic acid (RNA) element from the HIV genome. Read more

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