Daniel Miller, a graduate student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, has received a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Dan will continue as a CLiPS graduate student jointly supervised by Professors Ellington, Freeman, and Paul.
He is also very active in outreach to pre-college students, spending his Saturday afternoons this spring teaching basic polymer chemistry to the four UT Polymer Envoys.

Undergraduate CLiPS researcher Victor Ho, a graduating UT senior in Chemical Engineering, has also received a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. He will begin graduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley in the fall, after completing his research project with CLiPS during summer 2008. Victor, who has been active in community service while maintaining a 3.95 GPA, has worked closely with Dan Miller and plans to pass along his acquired mentoring skills once he settles in at Berkeley.

Josefina Guzman (graduating high school senior) and Anh-Thu Tran (rising college junior at UT Austin) will attend the North American Membrane Society's International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes (ICOM) in Honolulu, Hawaii. Both participated in the Polymer Envoys research program in Spring/Summer 2007, and both are co-authors on posters that will be presented at ICOM.* Tran worked with Freeman group member Hao Ju. Guzman's project was directed by Victor Kusuma, another Freeman student; she has returned for a second year with Polymer Envoys and will work this summer with graduate student Kevin Tung of the UT Austin CLiPS program, before beginning undergraduate studies at Texas A&M Corpus Christi in Fall 2008.

*Prof. Benny Freeman is Co-Chairman of the ICOM 2008 Organizing Committee.

- P. Cook, May, 2008

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