SPE honors three students for research work

Three students won research awards recently from the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the Society of Plastics Engineers for their work in polymers.

The students received the John Manson Memorial Student Research Award. Manson, a former professor of chemistry at Lehigh, organized the Polymer Program that evolved into the Center for Polymer Science and Engineering.

Orasa Khayankarn, a Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Polymer Science and Engineering, won the first-place award.

Sharing the runner-up awards were Erin Breithaupt '04, a materials science and engineering major, and Aleksandar K. Angelov, a graduate student in mechanical engineering.

Each student received a cash award.