News

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• Group lunch at the Allen Center in March 2023

• Leyun received the Martin Outstanding Doctoral Fellowship. Congratulations!
• Ben received the PSED Cluster Fellowship. Congratulations!
• Professor Park was selected as the recipient of the 2023 Cole-Higgins Award for Excellence in Teaching. (1 School of Engineering tenure track faculty member/year)
• Professor Park was selected as the recipient of the 2023 Micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena Outstanding Early Career Award. (1 recipient/year)
• Christian received the ME Graduate Leadership Award. Congratulations!
• Christian successfully defended his PhD thesis and stayed in Illinois for his new position in Exponent. Congratulations!
• Leyun received the AAUW Fellowship. Congratulations!
• Group outing at the Chicago Botanic Garden in October 2021.
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• Professor Park was selected as a recipient of the 2021 Hanwha Non-Tenured Faculty Award.
• Our research and Professor Park’s class – bio-inspired surface engineering – have been featured on Voice of America (3:35-6:15, just after President Schapiro’s interview).

• Youhua is going to Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT) as a faculty member. Congratulations!
• Yuehan successfully defended his PhD thesis and moved to California for his new position in Western Digital. Congratulations!
• Our frost-free zone work has been appeared in PNAS! This work has been featured on the Northwestern Now website.
• Professor Park gave an invited talk at Michigan Technological University.

• Professor Park explained bio-inspired surface engineering and interfacial phenomena at the 2019 Scientific Images Contest. The public, especially kids, were very interested in his demonstration.

• Professor Park gave an invited talk at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
• Yuehan’s application to the Management for Scientists and Engineers Program in the Kellogg School of Management has been accepted. Congratulations!

• Yuehan’s photo has been shortlisted by Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY). Please check his photo in THE TOP 100, the winning images of CUPOTY 01 (Manmade, Finalists). Congratulations!

• Our work on fog collection has been highlighted in Nature Materials.

• Professor Park gave an invited talk at the 2019 Korean Physical Society Spring Meeting.

• Professor Park explained superhydrophobic surfaces and slippery surfaces using natural examples at Romona Elementary School.

• Professor Park chaired a focus session at the 2019 APS March Meeting (Physics of Bio-Inspired Materials) in Boston.

• Professor Park started serving as Vice President of Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA)-Chicagoland.

• Our group’s international collaborative research on water was featured.

• Professor Park gave an invited talk at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL).

• Professor Park started organizing the international conference, “Nature Inspired Surface Engineering” as Technical Committee Chair. Professor Shu Yang (UPenn), Professor Howard Stone (Princeton), Professor Chang-Jin Kim (UCLA) were invited as keynote speakers.

• Our group’s research on atmospheric water generation was featured.

• Our group’s research on brine management was introduced.