Three win poster prizes at EPI’s annual review.

Two graduate students and one postdoctoral researcher won poster presentation awards and cash prizes recently at the annual review meeting of the Emulsion Polymers Institute’s  Industrial Liaison Program.

Christopher Anderson, a postdoctoral research associate with EPI, took first prize for a poster titled “Development of Particle-Based Slippery Material Technologies for Non-Lethal Weapons Applications.” Anderson received an M.S. from Lehigh in 1999 and a Ph.D. in 2002. His advisers are RCEAS dean Mohamed El-Aasser and EPI senior research scientists Eric Daniels and Victoria Dimonie.

Emilio Ortiz-Alba, a Ph.D. candidate in polymer science and engineering, took second prize for a poster titled “Fundamentals of Emulsion Polymerization Studied by Reaction Calorimetry.” Alba’s advisers are El-Aasser and David Sudol, EPI principal research scientist.

Siriwan Phattanarudee, a Ph.D. candidate in polymer science and engineering, took third prize for a poster titled “Aggregation Study of Polystyrene Latexes Stabilized with Conventional Reactive, and Polymeric Surfactants.” Phattanarudee, who received his M.S. in materials science and engineering from Lehigh in 1997, is advised by El-Aasser and Cesar Silebi, professor of chemical engineering.

The posters were evaluated for content, appearance and presentation by representatives from the companies that support EPI’s research programs.