Announcements

February 2026, Bota won 1st place in the poster presentation at the 38th Annual Georgia Tech ChBE Graduate Research Symposium. Congrats!

February 2026, Haoyu received the Eckert Graduate Fellowship and Bota received the Dennis Frank Fellowship. Congrats!

January 2026, Haoyu was awarded a 2026 Novelis Graduate Scholarship. Congratulations!

October 2025, Sean Wang, Anirban Ghosh, Eunho Yeo, Andrew Okyere, Mahsa Namdari and Yiheng Yang have joined the group as new PhD students - welcome aboard!

September 2025, Congrats to Dr. Lively on being named a national finalist for the 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists! Read more here.

August 2025, Young Joo’s work on microporous polymer membranes for OSRO has been selected as an Editor’s Choice Article in Journal of Membrane Science – read it here!

July 2025, A new direct air capture concept from our group has just been published in Energy & Environmental Science! Read the news article here and the full publication here.

June 2025, Congrats to Mingyu Song for winning the 2025 AIChE Graduate Student Research Award in Adsorption & Ion Exchange!

June 2025, Younhwa and Mario have joined the group as a post-doctoral researcher and a PhD student - welcome aboard!

March 2025, Seo-Yul’s publication is featured on the front cover of Advanced Functional Materials! Read the article here.

January 2025, Yi's work on fluorine-rich membranes for hydrocarbon separations is now published in Science – take a look here!

October 2024, Congrats to Lucinda Nugent for winning 1st place in the Environmental Division of the undergraduate poster competition at AIChE 2024!

October 2024, Congrats to Akriti on receiving the AIChE Women in Chemical Engineering (WIC) Travel Award!

October 2024, Vanessa and Trisha have joined the group as new PhD students - welcome aboard!

September 2024, Seo-Yul's paper on 3D printed DAC contactors was just published in Advanced Functional Materials - check it out here!

May 2024, Dr. Lively gave the Stratis V. Sotirchos Lecture at the Pan-Hellenic Scientific Conference in Chemical Engineering in Thessaloniki, Greece.

April 2024, Congrats to undergraduate researcher Shreya Ghosh for winning the Outstanding Senior Award!

March 2024, Gaurav Iyer (UMD) has joined the group as a post-doctoral researcher - welcome!

March 2024, Hannah’s paper on water management and heat integration in DAC systems has been published in Nature Chemical Engineering. You can read the article here.

February 2024, Pavithra’s paper on alumina incorporation in self-supported PEI sorbents was selected for ACS Editors’ Choice. Congrats, Pavithra! Check out the article here.

January 2024, Congrats to Lu for winning first place in a poster session at the Chemical Separations GRC 2024!

January 2024, Bota has been awarded a 2024 Novelis Graduate Scholarship. Congratulations!

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