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2012 Student Award Winners & Project Profiles


California Institute of Technology

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Prakhar Mehrotra
Grand Prize Winner
California Institute of Technology
(Team members included Devendra Gupta, Prakeek Singhal and Vivek Pandy,
students from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)

Project Title: Micro-Cold Storage
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Kangwoo Cho
Prize Winner
California Institute of Technology
Project Title: Photovoltaic-powered Wastewater Electrolysis Cell for Water Reuse and Solar Energy Harvesting
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Delft University of Technology

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Fred Henny, Pratap Thapa and Satishkumar Sugavanam (photo missing)
Grand Prize Winners
Delft University of Technology
Project Title: aQysta (Hydropowered Irrigation System)
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Bas des Tombe and Marloes van Ginkel
Prize Winners
Delft University of Technology
Project Name: Aquifer Storage Recovery, The Storage Tank Method
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Fudan University

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Jing Wei, Wei Li & Dan Feng
Grand Prize Winners
Fudan University
Project Name: Novel mesoporous materials: synthesis and applications in energy conversion and storage
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Qian Liu
Prize Winner
Fundan University
Project Title: Design and Systhesis of Upconversion Luminescence Nanomaterials and Application for Bioimaging
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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Salman Inayat
Grand Prize Winner
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Project Name: Thermoelectricity from Windows for Energy Efficient Buildings
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Mahmoud Ouda
Prize Winner
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Project Name: RF Energy Harvesting Chip for Biomedical Implantable Wireless Sensor
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jason R Boggess, Siddharth Khullar and Everett Lawson
Grand Prize Winners
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Project Name: inSight: Mobile Retina Imager for Diabetic Retinopathy (Project profile coming soon.)

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education

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Sergio Galaz, Marcela Mendoza-Suárez
Prize Winners
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
(With support from: Aldo Ramírez, Rodrigo Salmon-Folgueras, Diana Cárdenas and Roberto Parra)
Project Name: Technologic alternative of a system to save water and fertilizers based in a super-absorbent polymer for cultivation in arid regions of Mexico
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Jorge Isaac Martínez Corona, Marcela Alejandra Mendoza Suárez, Luisaldo Sandate Rodríguez, Juan Genaro Osuna Sánchez, Héctor Cruz Camino and Liliana Paloma Hernández Zavala
Prize Winners
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Project Name: Use of residual yeast in the beer industry by coupling fermentation and the cultivation of microalgae culture
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David Raymundo Santana González, David Vázquez Tavira and Sergio Fuentes Ruiz
Prize Winners
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Project Name: Smart Electromechanical Speed Bump
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Lucio Contreras, Neidy Jelgani, Román Lara & María Fernanda
Prize Winners
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Project Name: Operation: “Recycling”; Alan Galan García, Gibran Sidney Aleman Nava Technology Solutions (ALTESO) (Project profile coming soon.)

Northwestern University

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Ashish Basuray & Albert Fahrenbach
Grand Prize Winners
Northwestern University
Project Name: Affordable Hydroponic Rooftop Gardening Powered by Wind for Developing Communities
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Thomas Yu, Joshua Lau, Cary Hayner, Samir Mayekar, Nishit Mehta and Guy Peterson
Prize Winners
Northwestern University
Project Name: SiNode - Superior Anodes for Li-ion Batteries
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Peking University

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Da-Gang Yu, Hu Li, Kang Chen, and Xi-Sha Zhang
Grand Prize Winners
Peking University
Project Name: Green and Sustainable Chemistry -
Novel Selective Activation of Inert Bonds
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Yang Wang & Heng Li
Prize Winner
Peking University
Project Title: Explortion of New Synthetic Method towards Pharmaceutical Molecules - Novel Transformations with Participation of Organolithium Compounds
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Penn State

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Marta Hatzell, Roland Cusick, Mike Parks and Emily Smith-Greenaway
Grand Prize Winners
Penn State
Project Name: Sustainable Improvement of Drinking-Water and Sanitation in African Slums using Microbial Electrochemical Technologies and Attention to Self-Efficacy within Local Communities
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Yuexiao Shen, Patrick Saboe, Bryan Ferlez, Mustafa Erbakan and Manuel Escotet
Prize Winners
Penn State
Project Name: Solar Energy Based Biomimetic Water Desalination and Purification
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Chao Wu, and Rong Qian
Grand Prize Winners
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Project Title: Controllable Preparation and Applied Research of
Highly Conductive Graphene-based Polymer Composites
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Rubing Wang, Zheng Jing and Hualong Song
Prize Winners
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Project Title: Total Synthesis of Shikonin and Alkannin with High Optical Purity and Antitumor Effects of their Derivatives
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Tsinghua University

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Chen Xi
Grand Prize Winner
Tsinghua University
Project Title: The Fresh Water Producer on Noah’s Ark —Stacked Microbial Desalination Cells
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Zhang Tianyuan, Zhu Shufeng, Wang Tong and Ren Shi-Ting
Prize Winners
Tsinghua University
Project Title: Coupled Technology of Domestic Wastewater Treatment and Biomass Production Based on Microalgae
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Tufts University

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Dante DeMeo & Corey Shemelya
Grand Prize Winners
Tufts University
Project Name: Harvesting Heat - Changing Waste Heat in Usable Electricity
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Graham Jeffries
Prize Winner
Tufts University
Project Title: An Integrative Framework for Foodshed Scenario Modeling
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University of California, Berkeley

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Caroline Delaire
Prize Winner
University of California, Berkeley
Project Name: A Socially Sustainable Water Solution for Poor Communities - Simultaneous Removal of Arsenic and Waterborne Pathogens by Chemical Electrocoagulation
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University of Cambridge

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Goylette Chami
Grand Prize Winner
University of Cambridge
Project Name: Environment, Poverty, and Human Health: an empirical analysis of ecosystem services for infectious disease regulation
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Giorgio Divitini & Najeeb Ullah
Prize Winners
University of Cambridge
Project Name: Sunlight-Activated Catalyst for Pollutants Removal
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University of Michigan

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Tim Dobson, Tirumalai Tejas, Cara Bastoni, Joseph Colett and Sundeep Ramachandran
Grand Prize Winners
University of Michigan
Project Title: Increasing energy efficiency in buildings through occupant density monitoring and adaptive control algorithms
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Stephen Ahn, Ursula Jessee, and Alex Papo
Prize Winners
University of Michigan
Project Title: ArborAqua - Harvesting Moringa and Harnessing Entrepreneurship
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University of Minnesota

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Matthew Aro
Grand Prize Winner
University of Minnesota
Project Name: Helping African People through Hydrothermal Carbonization of Typha Australis to Create Cooking and Heating Fuel
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Tucker Burch
Prize Winner
University of Minnesota
Project Name: Application of Thermophilic Anaerobic Digestion for the Destruction of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Residual Municipal Wastewater Solids
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University of São Paulo

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Maria Letícia Bonatelli
Grand Prize Winner
University of São Paulo
Project Name: Cultivated and Uncultivated Bacteria from Guaraná for Control of Anthracnose
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Lívia Seno Ferreira
Prize Winner
University of São Paulo
Project Name: Use of carbon dioxide from the alcoholic fermentation in the cultivation of Spirulina (Arthrospira) platensis using both sodium nitrate and ammonium sulfate as nitrogen sources. (Project profile coming soon.)

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