Sigma Xi Research Recognition Award for New Investigators
• Dr. Patrick Limbach (Chemistry)
has been selected to receive the 2008 Research Recognition Award for
New Investigators. He will be honored at the spring banquet of
Sigma Xi and will give his award lecture in Fall, 2008.
• The 2007 Research Recognition
Award was presented to Dionysios
D. Dionysiou, Ph. D., Associate Professor in the UC Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering. Dr. Dionysiou received a Diploma
(B.S./M.S.) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece
and an M.S. from Tufts University, both in Chemical Engineering. He
received his Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the
University of Cincinnati in 2001. He teaches courses on drinking water
quality and treatment, advanced unit operations for water treatment,
advanced oxidation technologies and nanotechnologies, and
physical-chemical processes for water quality control. His
research interests include advanced technologies for water treatment,
advanced oxidation technologies, transition metal-based chemical
oxidation, and nanotechnology. He has industrial experience with
W. R. Grace where he performed research on investigating environmental
problems in masonry formulations. Dr. Dionysiou is the author or
co-author of 55 refereed journal publications, 60 conference
proceedings and 3 book chapter publications. He has received
funding from NSF, US EPA, NASA, NOAA/CICEET, USGS, and DuPont. He is
currently Associate Editor for the Journal
of Environmental Engineering and Water Environment Research. He is a
member of the Editorial Boards of Applied
Catalysis B: Environmental, Environmental
Progress, and the Journal of
Advanced Oxidation Technologies. He has been a member of
the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the American Chemical
Society for 10 years and he is currently serving as a member of the
awards committee (Chair of the Undergraduate Award and co-Chair of the
Certificate of Merit Award). Dr. Dionysiou is the recipient of several
awards including the NSF CAREER Award (2005), the DuPont Young
Professor Award (2005), the 2006 College of Engineering Research Award
for Young Faculty at the University of Cincinnati, the American Water
Works Association’s First Place Academic Achievement Award for Best
Dissertation (2002), and the Journal
of Environmental Engineering Editor’s Award (2001).
Dr. Dionysiou presented his award lecture,
titled "Advanced Oxidation Technologies and Nanotechnologies
for Water Treatment: Fundamentals, Development, and Application Case
Study in the Destruction of Cyanobacterial Toxins" on Monday,
January, 14, 2008.
• Past award winners:
- 2007: Dionysios Dionysiou (Civil & Environmental
Engineering)
- 2006: Randy Seeley (Psychiatry)
- 2005: Theresa Reineke (Chemistry)
- 2004: Milind Jong (Electrical & Computer Engineering
&
Computer Science)
- 2003: Michael Riley (Psychology)
- 2002: Panagiotis Smirniotis (Chemical Engineering)
- 2001: Jude Iroh (Material Science & Engineering)
- 2000: Donglu Shi (Material Science & Engineering)
- 1999: Ranga Vemuri (Electrical & Computer Engineering
&
Computer Science
