ACS honors chem. engineering prof

Norman Wagner, Alvin B. and Julia O. Stiles Professor of Chemical Engineering

4:39 p.m., Jan. 26, 2006--Norman Wagner, Alvin B. and Julia O. Stiles Professor of Chemical Engineering and a member of UD’s Center for Molecular and Engineering Thermodynamics, has been selected to receive the American Chemical Society’s Delaware Section Award. The award recognizes conspicuous scientific achievement in an area of chemistry or chemical engineering by a member and will be presented at the general meeting on Monday, Jan. 30, in Wilmington.

On campus, Wagner will deliver his inaugural lecture as a named professor on ?Colloids and Polymers: Nanostructured Materials and Some Applications in Nanotechnology? at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 31, in 131 Sharp Laboratory.

He works in the areas of rheology, complex fluids, nanotechnology and particle technology. Wagner’s research is focused on high-performance materials and developing a fundamental understanding of the dynamic behavior of materials during processing. He leads a research effort in modeling nanostructured materials, which recently received a $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

Among his awards, Wagner received the prestigious Paul A. Siple Memorial Award in 2002 from the U.S. Army for collaborative research and development of shear-thickening fluids with the potential use for military body armor.

He also has received the Robert W. Vaughan Lectureship from the California Institute of Technology, a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, the DuPont Young Faculty Award and the Presidential Young Investigator Award.

A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Wagner received his doctorate from Princeton University. He was an NSF/NATO postdoctoral fellow in Germany and a director’s postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory before joining the UD faculty in 1991.

Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson

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