  {"id":29652,"date":"2023-05-02T09:35:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=29652"},"modified":"2023-05-02T09:35:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:35:11","slug":"apul-and-jain-receive-maine-college-of-engineering-and-computing-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2023\/05\/02\/apul-and-jain-receive-maine-college-of-engineering-and-computing-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Apul and Jain receive Maine College of Engineering and Computing awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Center faculty fellows <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/onur-apul\/\">Onur Apul<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/shaleen-jain\/\">Shaleen Jain<\/a> were recipients of the Maine College of Engineering and Computing\u2019s Edward Bryand annual awards honoring alumni, faculty, staff and students at a ceremony on April 14.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"2539\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2539\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2013\/12\/Shaleen-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shaleen Jain\" width=\"120\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2013\/12\/Shaleen-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2013\/12\/Shaleen-105x128.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2013\/12\/Shaleen-317x387.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2013\/12\/Shaleen-423x517.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2013\/12\/Shaleen.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shaleen Jain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Civil engineering professor and department chair, Shaleen Jain, received the <strong>Ashley Campbell Award<\/strong>. \u201cProfessor Jain\u2019s expertise in hydrology and the role of changing climate has put him in a timely and relevant position to make research contributions in a number of areas. He was among the early researchers who recognized the importance of climate change in affecting the flood level statistics that engineers and scientists use to assess risk,\u201d said civil engineering professor, Eric Landis.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"29018\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29018\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2023\/03\/Onur-Apul_s.jpg\" alt=\"Onur Apul\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2023\/03\/Onur-Apul_s.jpg 195w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2023\/03\/Onur-Apul_s-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2023\/03\/Onur-Apul_s-105x105.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2023\/03\/Onur-Apul_s-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Onur Apul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Onur Apul, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering received the <strong>Early Career Research Award<\/strong> for his work on PFAS chemicals. <b><\/b>\u201cDr. Apul is an environmental chemist who has developed expertise in nanomaterials applications. In the three years he has been at 91¸£Àû, he has parlayed that expertise into a very diverse array of research projects, ranging from health impacts of microplastics in the environment to nanobubbles in water and their role in space exploration,\u201d said civil engineering professor, Eric Landis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Center faculty fellows Onur Apul and Shaleen Jain were recipients of the Maine College of Engineering and Computing\u2019s Edward Bryand annual awards honoring alumni, faculty, staff and students at a ceremony on April 14. Civil engineering professor and department chair, Shaleen Jain, received the Ashley Campbell Award. \u201cProfessor Jain\u2019s expertise in hydrology and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29653,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29652\/revisions\/29653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}