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Congratulations to Thu Nguyen for successfully defending his Ph.D. proposal

Congratulations to Boris Sheludko for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation "Development, Characterization and Application of Silica-Supported Pincer-Iridium Catalysts for Heterogeneous, Continueous-Flow Alkane Valorization"

Boris Sheludko elected to serve as 2020-2021 Secretary of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York

Congratulations to Jinwoong Nam for successfully defending his Ph.D. proposal

Congratulations to Boris Sheludko for winning first place at the poster competition of the 2019 Joint Meeting of The Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York and The Catalysis Club of Philadelphia

Professor Celik promoted to the position of Associate Professor with tenure and appointed Graduate Program Director in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Ashley M. Pennington elected to serve as 2019-2020 Secretary of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York

Congratulations to Bo Li for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation "Catalytic C-C (C-N) Bond Formation and C-O Bond Cleavage by Pincer-Iridium Complexes"

Professor Celik elected to serve as Director of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York, re-elected in 2019, 2020.

At graduation, Ashley M. Pennington receives the School of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Award and the CBE Graduate Research and Scholarship Award

Congratulations to Rachel A. Yang for successfully defending her J.J. Slade Scholars Senior Thesis.

Congratulations to Ashley M. Pennington for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation "Synthesis, Modification, and Analysis of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles for Photocatalytic Fuel Generation"

Congratulations to Alec Hook for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation "A DFT Study of Hydrogen Abstraction from Light Alkanes: Pt Alloy Dehydrogenation Catalysts and TiO₂ Steam Reforming Catalysts"

Congratulations to Rachel Yang for winning first place in the Chemical Reaction Engineering division II of the Student Poster Competition at the AIChE Annual Student Conference for her work on "Investigation of Platinum Alloys for Light Alkane Dehydrogenation"

Celik group receives a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study "First-Principles Design of Coke-Resistant Dehydrogenation Catalysts for Valorization of Light Hydrocarbon Feedstocks"

Congratulations to Ashley Pennington for being selected for a Kokes Award to attend the 25th North American Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society to present her work on "Low Pressure Flame Synthesized Carbon Doped TiO₂ Nanoparticles"

Congratulations to Rachel Yang for being selected for a 2017 Undergraduate Student Award from the New York Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy

Congratulations to Boris Sheludko for successfully defending his Ph.D. Inside Field Research Proposal

Congratulations to Rachel Yang for placing second in the Chemical Reaction Engineering division II of the Student Poster Competition at the AIChE Annual Student Conference for her work on "High Pressure High Temperature Annealed TiO₂ for Photocatalytic Biomass Reforming"

Congratulations to Boris Sheludko for placing third at the Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Student Poster Competition

Congratulations to Ashley M. Pennington for successfully defending her Ph.D. proposal

Celik group receives a $233,897 grant from the Center for Enabling New Technologies Through Catalysis to study "Heterogeneous Tandem Catalytic Systems for Alkane Conversions Based on Pincer-Iridium-Catalyzed Alkane Dehydrogenation"

Congratulations to Katelyn A. Dagnall for being awarded 1st place in the Mid-Atlantic Student Regional Conference of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers poster competition, and 4th place overall in the oral presentation competition.

Congratulations to Jacob D. Massa, Katelyn A. Dagnall, and Ryan R. Belfer for successfully defending their J.J. Slade Scholars Senior Theses as part of the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Undergraduate Research Day.

Congratulations to Ashley M. Pennington for being awarded 4th place in the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York's Annual Symposium poster competition

Professor Celik and the Celik Catalysis group organize the 2016 Annual Symposium of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York

Jacob D. Massa's presentation titled "A DFT Study of Methanol Reforming on C- and N-Doped TiO₂ (110) Rutile Surfaces" at the 2015 AIChE National Meeting in Salt Lake City selected as "Best Presentation" of the Undergraduate Research Forum III session.

Congratulations to Alec Hook for successfully defending his Ph.D. proposal

Celik group receives a $159,911 grant from the Center for Enabling New Technologies Through Catalysis to study "Heterogeneous Tandem Catalytic Systems for Alkane Conversions Based on Pincer-Iridium-Catalyzed Alkane Dehydrogenation"

Congratulations to Ashley M. Pennington for successfully defending her M.S. thesis "Increased Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activity of TiO₂ via Band Gap Manipulation"

Professor Celik elected to serve as 2015-2016 Chair-Elect, 2016-2017 Chair, and 2017-2018 Past Chair of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York

Ashley M. Pennington elected to serve as 2015-2016 Student Representative of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York

Professor Celik awarded Rutgers School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, selected by the graduating Class of 2015

Congratulations to Bo Li for successfully defending his Inside Field Research Proposal

Celik group receives a $39,579 grant from the Center for Enabling New Technologies Through Catalysis for "Heterogeneous Tandem Catalytic Systems for Alkane Conversions Based on Pincer-Iridium-Catalyzed Alkane Dehydrogenation"

Congratulations to Jacob D. Massa for placing second in the Chemical Reaction Engineering division II of the Student Poster Competition at the AIChE Annual Student Conference for his work on "Ethane and Propane Dehydrogenation on Pt and PtSn Alloys"

Congratulations to Atish Kulkarni for successfully defending his M.S. thesis "Oligomerization of Pentenes by Acid Zeolites"

Professor Celik elected as Secretary of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York

Professor Celik receives the A. Walter Tyson Assistant Professorship Award from the School of Engineering

Professor Celik awarded Rutgers School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, selected by the graduating Class of 2013