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    <div class="html-content">On November 11, 2019, The Graduate School celebrated all PhD students who completed their proposal defense during the past year thus advancing to Candidacy.  Three Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (CENG) students and four Environmental Engineering (ENEN)  students were recognized for their accomplishments. <div><br></div><div><strong>Marilyn E. Allen - </strong><em>CENG</em></div><div>Mentor - Dr. Gregory Szeto</div><div>"Nanostructures Encapsulating Antimalarial Drugs for Improved Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Treatment" </div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div><strong>Mandar N. Bokare - </strong><em>ENEN</em></div><div>Mentor - Dr. Upal Ghosh</div></div><div>"Application of Passive Sampling to Improve Quantitative Assessment of Fate, Transport, and Bioaccumulations of Hydrophoboic Organic Contaminants in an Urban Watershed"</div><div><br></div></div><div><strong>David A. Burgenson - </strong><em>CENG</em></div><div>Mentor - Dr. Govind Rao</div></div><div>"Producing Recombinant Proteins Using a Cell-Free Protein Expression System Derived from Human Blood"</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><strong>Mamatha Hopanna - </strong><em>ENEN</em></div><div>Mentor - Dr. Lee Blaney</div></div><div>"Photolytic Fate of Organo-Selenium and -Tin Compounds in Natural and Engineered Water Systems"</div><div><br></div><div><div><strong>Utsav Shashvatt - </strong><em>ENEN</em></div><div>Mentor - Dr. Lee Blaney</div></div><div>"Recovery of Phosphorus, Nitrogen, and Potassium from Human Urine and Poultry Litter Using Donnan Dialysis"</div><div><br></div><div><div><strong>Mahdad Talebpour - </strong><em>ENEN</em></div><div>Mentor - Dr. Claire Welty</div></div><div>"Investigating Urban Hydrological-Atmospheric Processes Using a Fully Coupled Subsurface-Land Survace-Atmosphere Model"</div><div><strong><br></strong></div><div><strong>Michael H. Zhang - </strong><em>CENG</em></div><div>Mentor - Dr. Gregory Szeto</div></div><div>"Engineered B Cell-Carrying Vaccines for Enhancing T-Cell Immunotherapy."</div></div>
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