Chemical Engineering Professor Receives Physics Science Award
September 22, 2008
Venkat Ganesan, chemical engineering associate professor at The University of Texas at Austin, has been selected as the 2009 Dillon Medal Award winner.
Presented by the American Physical Society, the award recognizes outstanding research accomplishments by young polymer physicists who have demonstrated exceptional research promise early in their careers.
Recognition consists of $2,000, up to $1,000 allowance for travel to the meeting of the Society at which the award is being presented, a bronze medallion, and a certificate citing the accomplishments of the recipient.
Professor Ganesan has been awarded the Dillon medal "For exceptional contributions to innovative computer simulation approaches and analysis of equilibrium and dynamic properties of multicomponent polymetric materials and nanocomposites."