2014 O’Donnell Awards Recipients
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2014 O’Donnell Award recipients Zhifeng Ren, James Walker, Richard Bruick and Thomas Truskett.
The 2014 award recipients include: medicine awardee Dr. Bruick for studies on cellular responses to maintain oxygen and iron homeostasis that have helped lay the foundation for the development of small molecule therapeutics; engineering awardee Dr. Truskett for fundamental contributions in three areas—self-assembly at the nanoscale, dynamics of confined liquids and structural arrest of complex fluids—that are important for applications ranging from biomedical imaging to the delivery of therapeutic proteins; science awardee Dr. Ren for seminal contributions to five scientific fields: carbon nanotubes, thermoelectrics, zinc oxide nanowires, high temperature superconductivity and molecule delivery/sensing; and technology innovation awardee Dr. Walker for his pioneering work, development and modeling in impact theory, penetration mechanics, material characterization and response under dynamic loading.
Medicine
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Richard Bruick, Ph.D.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Engineering
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Thomas M. Truskett, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin
Science
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Zhifeng Ren, Ph.D.
University of Houston
Technology Innovation
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James Walker, Ph.D.
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)
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