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Ten College of Engineering undergraduates and nine graduate students took part in 奶糖直播 University鈥檚 2019 Sigma Xi Student Research Poster Symposium. The international honor society for research scientists and engineers, Sigma Xi hosts this annual event to foster, recognize and celebrate the next generation of researchers in fields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Planetary Science and Physics; Computing Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics; Chemistry and Biochemistry; Geography and the Environment; Biology and Engineering.

Judges evaluate the research posters and provide written feedback to the presenters. The day鈥檚 events conclude with awards being presented for outstanding posters. This year, students in the Chemical Engineering department swept all four awards in the engineering category.

First Place鈥擴ndergraduates: Simon Brooks 鈥�21 with PhD student Anthony Vallace 鈥�16 ChE, 鈥�18 MSChE, 鈥淗igh Temperature CO₂ Adsorption by Mesoporous Lithium Orthosilicate (LOS)鈥�  
Advisors: Drs. Michael Smith and Charles Coe

Second Place鈥擴ndergraduates: Stephen Sobota 鈥�19 with Solu Rajan 鈥�19, Charlotte Smith 鈥�19 and Anthony Vallace, 鈥淔abrication of Nano Calcium Oxide Composites through Atomic Layer Deposition Provide Increased Efficiency in Carbon Dioxide Adsorption鈥�
Advisors: Drs. Michael Smith and Charles Coe

First Place鈥擥raduate: Anthony Vallace, 鈥淣ovel Al-rich Chabazite Compositions Enable Improved Ar PSA鈥� with Grant Kester 鈥�19 and William Casteel, Garret Lau and Roger Whitley of Air Products and Chemicals
Advisor: Dr. Charles Coe

Second Place鈥擡mily Harris 鈥�20 MSBChE, 鈥淥ptimization of Non-Viral Gene Delivery in T-Cells for CAR-T Cell Therapy鈥� with PhD student Devon Zimmerman
Advisor: Dr. Jacob Elmer