PhD Student Darlene I. Santiago Quiñonez Wins First Place in Society of Rheology Annual Meeting Poster Competition

Doctoral degree candidate Darlene I. Santiago Quiñonez won first place in the Poster Competition held in this year’s annual meeting of the Society of Rheology, held October 24-28, 2010, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Darlene presented a poster entitled “Rheological Characterization of a Ferrofluid Consisting of Permanently Magnetized Nanoparticles,” which describes par of her dissertation research conducted under the guidance of Prof. Carlos Rinaldi. This year the Department of Chemical Engineering had a strong presence at the meeting with 10 participants presenting oral and poster presentations describing research from the groups of Prof. Aldo Acevedo, Prof. Ubaldo Cordova-Figueroa, and Prof. Carlos Rinaldi. The following students presented their work at the meeting: Vivian Florían Algarín – Oral presentation, Prof. Acevedo Mariel Santiago-Vázquez, Poster presentation, Prof. Acevedo Felix G. Miranda, Poster presentation, Prof. Acevedo Ana R. Cameron-Soto, Poster presentation, Prof. Acevedo Anthony Gonzalez-Santana, Poster presentation, Prof. Acevedo Glenn C. Vidal-Urquiza – Poster Presentation, Prof. Cordova-Figueroa Darlene I. Santiago Quiñonez – Poster presentation, Prof. Rinaldi Denisse Soto-Aquino – Poster presentation, Prof. Rinaldi More Information about the Society of Rheologyand the 82nd Annual Meeting.