June 15, 2009
James Chelikowsky, Mary Wheeler and Muhammad Zaman, three engineering professors at The University of Texas at Austin, have been selected as winners of the 2009-2010 W.A. “Tex” Moncrief, Jr. Simulation-Based Engineering and Sciences (SBES) Grand Challenge Faculty Awards. Chelikowsky, a chemical engineering professor, was selected for his work, "Materials Informatics: Computational Tools for Discovery and Design.” Wheeler, an aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics professor, was chosen for her work, "Reservoir Characterization and Evaluation of Long Term CO2 Storage in Saline Aquifers.” And Zaman, a biomedical engineering assistant professor, was selected for “Multi-Scale Modeling of Tumor Formation and Metastasis.” The Moncrief Grand Challenge Program provides stipends of up to $75,000 per award and per semester for faculty members to work on research and academic programs in advancing computational engineering and sciences. A total of five university professors were selected for the Grand Challenge Program.
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