Recent News

2023

• November - Fatou Diop received 2nd prize for the 2023 AIChE Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Poster Session at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando.

• November - Jacob Crislip successfully defends his PhD thesis!

• October - Esai Lopez received the ‘2023 SACNAS Student Presentation Award’ for his talk at the SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference in Portland, OR.

• May - Cameron Armstrong successfully defends his PhD thesis!

• April - Esai Lopez received the Student Presentation Award for his talk at the New England Water Works Association’s annual meeting for his talk talk titled, “Intensified water purification via carbon dioxide-mediated diffusiophoresis.”

• April - Congrats on all of our MQP Teams for an outstanding year of research sharing your findings on Project Presentation Day:

  • Michelle Barboza and Brent Ditzler (Wireless photocatalytic packed bed)

  • Sam Qu, Maheer Quasem, Albert Foun (Diffusiophoretic Water Purification via CO2 Gradients)

  • Griffin Carloni, Zach Carney, Robert Dec (Continuous catalytic dynamic kinetic resolution for enantioselective purification)

  • Rachel Swanson (Development of a C-H Acylation Reaction in Batch and in Flow)

• May - Heather LeClerc successfully defends her PhD thesis!

2022

• September - Teixeira group welcomes three new PhD students: Januario DaCosta, Maliha Marium, and Muntasir Shahabuddin!

• May- Undergraduates Patrick Roche and Ciara Young place first during WPI’s Project Presentation Day Chemical Engineering poster session

• May- Undergraduates Avery Cirincione-Lynch and Eileen Piombino receive honorable mention during WPI’s Project Presentation Day Chemical Engineering poster session

• May- Cameron is awarded Kokes Travel award to attend the North American Meeting for Catalysis in New York City

• April- Cameron and his team place 1st in the Brooklyn College Idea Challenge

• April- Heather receives a travel award to attend the EU FT-ICR MS short course held in Joensuu, Finland

• April- Esai is awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship

• March- Esai receives honorable mention from the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Program

• March- Fatou’s oral presentation on batch to continuous extraction of salicylic acid wins 1st place in (Chemical Engineering and Material Science Division of) WPI’s Graduate Research and Innovation Exchange

• February- Undergraduates Eileen Piombino and Avery Cirincione-Lynch place 2nd in the NECS poster competition

2021

• December- The Teixeira Dynamics Lab offers its first workforce training course on batch to flow conversion in pharma with students, professors and professionals in the field

• September- Teixeira Group welcomes MS Student, Januario Da Costa, working on population balance modeling for microcrystallization systems!

• May- At WPI’s Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Heather placed 3rd

• May- David becomes an Associate System Engineering Professional (ASEP)

• April- Heather is awarded a Fulbright fellowship for research at Aalborg University in Denmark

• February– David is recognized for his work and received the Crommelin-Armiger scholarship from WPI’s Chemical Engineering Department

  2020

• September- Teixeira Group welcomes PhD Student, David Kenney, working toward unraveling complexities in catalytic hydrothermal liquefaction!

• September- Teixeira Group welcomes PhD Student, Esai Lopez, working on using diffusiophoresis to purify water!

• June- Teixeira Group welcomes PhD Student, Fatou Diop, working on using dynamic catalysis to break classical barriers!

• May- Based on her work on converting waste to energy, Heather won first in WPI’s Sustainability Competition

• April- Heather received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

• March- WPI’s Women’s Impact Network Grant was awarded to Heather for her involvement in developing a Graduate Research Organization for Women in STEM

• January- The American Chemical Society has awarded Heather with the Heh-Won Green Chemistry Fellowship

  2019

• December- Congratulations to Heather LeClerc for receiving an NSF Travel Award to present her work at the Food-Energy-Water Nexus in NYC.

• November- Heather LeClerc is elected to the national board for Women in Chemical Engineering

• October- Congratulations to PhD students Cameron Armstrong and Heather LeClerc for winning NSF travel awards and presenting their research at the Unconventional Catalysis, Reactors and Applications in Zaragoza, Spain.

• August- Teixeira Group welcomes Heather LeClerc into the PhD program working toward unraveling complexities in catalytic hydrothermal liquefaction!

• August- Funding Award: DOE RAPID Education and Workforce Development, "Fundamentals of Batch to Continuous Process Conversion in Specialty and API Chemistries,"

• August- Funding Award: ARMY STTR Phase I with Mainstream Engineering, "Membraneless Water Purification via Vacuum-Assisted Diffusiophoresis."

• May- Natti Jantakananuruk defends her thesis identifying thermal and concentration gradients in direct ammonia solid oxide fuel cells.

• April- Jacob Crislip wins WPI Graduate Research Innovation Exchange research poster

• March- Teixeira gives junior keynote at North American Symposium for Catalytic Reaction Engineering, Houston, TX

• February- Funding Award: AmplifyMass with Professor Mike Timko, "A Catalytic Process to Convert Municipal Solid Waste Components to Energy."

  2018

• September- Funding Award: DOE EREE multi-university grant led by Professor Mike Timko, "A Catalytic Process to Convert Municipal Solid Waste Components to Energy.,"

• September- Teixeira Group welcomes PhD Student, Jacob Crislip, using microcrystallization to understand zeolite synthesis!

• May- First graduate student out of the Teixeira Group. Congratulation MS student Jim Vicens, and excellent job building a lab and studying flow chemistry for zeolites!

• February- Cameron Armstrong wins Crommelin-Armiger scholarship for his work toward reducing air pollution and energy production.

  2017

• December- Jim Vicens wins first prize for his poster at New England Catalysis Society's Fall Meeting.

• November- Funding Award: ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable, "Enhanced Site-Accessibility for Solid-Phase Coupling in Hierarchical Materials."

• October- Funding Award: ACS Petroleum Research Fund, "Enhanced Zeolite Synthesis/Mechanism Assessment by Dynamically-Controlled Microcrystallization."

• September- Teixeira Group welcomes our first PhD Student, Cameron Armstrong, working on using dynamic catalysis to break classical barriers!

• June- ASEE ChE Summer School Poster Award Winner: “Engaging 50 students in Transport Phenomena: Resources and Ideas,” Raleigh, NC