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Alumnus Chris Roberts Named Dean of Engineering at Auburn

Author: Kevin Zeise

Christopher B. Roberts, department chair and the George E. and Dorothy Stafford Uthlaut Professor of Chemical Engineering in Auburn University's Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, has been named dean of the college effective July 1, 2012. Roberts earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Notre Dame in 1994 and a master's in the same program two years earlier.

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Thomas Quinn, MD, Named 2012 Graduate School Distinguished Alumnus and Commencement Speaker

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Thomas Quinn, MD (B.S. Notre Dame 1969, MSc Notre Dame 1970), professor and director, Johns Hopkins’ Center for Global Health, has been named the Graduate School's 2012 "Distinguished Alumnus":http://graduateschool.nd.edu/about-the-graduate-school/gs-awards/distinguished-alumnus/ and "Commencement speaker":http://graduateschool.nd.edu/resources-for-current-students/graduation/ for 2012.

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Perez-Blanco & Maginn Team Up For Most-Read Physical Chemistry Article In 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Fifth-year Notre Dame Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering graduate student Marcos Perez-Blanco and his advisor, "Prof. Edward Maginn":https://engineering.nd.edu/profiles/emaginn, have authored an article that is the most-read article in the American Chemical Society’s _Journal of Physical Chemistry B_ for the year 2011.

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Creative Writing M.F.A. Student Betsy Cornwell Signs Book Deal

Author: Joanna Basile

Betsy Cornwell, a master’s student in Notre Dame’s Creative Writing Program, has sold her first two novels to Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Both books, written for a young adult audience, have their roots in the science fiction and fantasy genres.

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Student Spotlight: Katherine Ward, Ph.D. Biochemistry, ESTEEM

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Notre Dame’s graduate students are a critical part of the University’s research agenda. Not only do graduate students assist faculty with research, they make important discoveries of their own. Katherine Ward, a third-year student in Notre Dame’s doctoral program in Chemistry and Biochemistry who, last year, won a major fellowship from the American Heart Association, is a perfect case in point.

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Sociology Graduate Students Build an Outstanding Publication Record

Author: Heather Price

A unique departmental approach to graduate students’ professional development is paying dividends for Notre Dame’s Department of Sociology. Over the past two years, more than 18 students have published a book, article, or book review in a peer-reviewed journal—for a combined total of 26 articles, three books and two book reviews. Nearly half of the publications have appeared in top-ranked journals.

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Brennecke elected to National Academy of Engineering

Author: Julie Hail Flory

"Joan F. Brennecke":http://cbe.nd.edu/faculty/show/jfb/, the Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been elected a member of the "National Academy of Engineering":http://www.nae.edu/ (NAE) for her innovation in the use of ionic liquids and supercritical fluids for environmentally benign chemical processing.

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Notre Dame researchers publish new findings on aging pediatric bruises

Author: Shelly Goethals

A multi-university research group which includes several University of Notre Dame faculty and graduate students, has recently published a paper detailing new work on the analysis and dating of human bruises. The research, which is funded by the Gerber Foundation, will have particular application to pediatric medicine, as bruise age is often key evidence in child abuse cases.

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