2025 News Archive

Sean Bannon successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled Engineering water/polymer interactions to control the transport properties of hydrated polymers for desalination. Congratulations Dr. Bannon!

Congratulations to undergraduate Natasha D'Cunha who won 1st place at the UVA Undergraduate Engineering Research and Design Symposium for her poster titled Understanding interactions between ions, water, and polymer in hydrated membranes for desalintion applications!

Congratulations to doctoral candidate Charlie Leroux on winning the 2025 DuPont Student Safety Award! The award, which recognizes and incentivizes efforts to make safety-related improvements or changes to laboratory practices, is given annually by the UVA Department of Chemical Engineering Safety Committee.

Graduate research assistant Inara Oliveira do Carmo Nascimento presented a poster titled Characterization of a sulfonated polyamide membrane for electric-driven processes at the 21st University of Virginia Engineering Student Research Symposium (UVERS) Poster Session.

Graduate student Sean Bannon won the 2025 North American Membrane Society (NAMS) Student Fellowship award! The award recognizes excellence in graduate research in membrane science and engineering. Sean will present his research and accept the award at the NAMS 2025 meeting in Nashville.

Prof. Geise published research resulting from collaborations with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Texas at Austin, and Jeonbuk National University in Korea. The Effects of Morphology and Hydration on Anion Transport in Self-Assembled Nanoporous Membranes is published in ACS Nano. Engineering Lithium–Magnesium Selectivity in Hydrated Polymer Membranes through Polymer Backbone Rigidity is published in ACS Macro Letters. Finally, Advanced Layered Nanocomposites with Controllable Aligned Channels for Efficient Solar-Driven Desalination is published in Chemical Engineering Journal.