Published on Monday May 9, 2011
Alumna Dr. Jessica Schiffman, MSE Ph.D. 2009 (advisor: Caroline
Schauer), has accepted a tenure-track faculty position to start
September 1, 2011 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical
Engineering at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst.
While at Drexel, Jessica received numerous awards and
accolades. Upon graduation, she was selected as the doctoral
student deemed to have the most promise in enhancing Drexel's
reputation in the future in the Mathematical Sciences and
Engineering. She was a recipient of both the National Science
Foundation (NSF) IGERT and Department of Education GAANN
Fellowships. In 2008, she was selected as an NSF Lindau
Fellow and attended the 58th meeting of Nobel Laureates (focus in
physics) in Lindau, Germany. One of her images also received
Honorable Mention in the 2008 NSF/AAAS International Science and
Engineering Visualization Challenge, published in Science,
Nature, Illustreret Videnskab, Focus Italy, National Geographic
News, Weekly Reader, and Forskning &
Framsteg.
Jessica currently serves as a postdoctoral associate in Chemical
and Environmental Engineering at Yale University.
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