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Jennifer A. Lewis
Hans Thurnauer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Willett Faculty Scholar of Engineering, Director, F. Seitz Materials Research Laboratory
Office 212A Ceramics Building
Telephone 217-244-4973 Fax 217-333-2736
Mail Address Department of Materials Science and Engineering
1304 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801
Professor Jennifer Lewis received a BS with honors from the University of Illinois (1986) and an Sc.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1991) and joined the faculty of UIUC in fall 1990. She now holds the titles of professor of materials science and engineering and of chemical engineering, and is a faculty affiliate with the Beckman Institute. Her honors include: NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award (1994), Burnett Teaching Award (1994), Schlumberger Foundation Award (1995), Xerox Award for Faculty Research (1996 & 2001), Allied Signal Foundation Awards (1998, 1999), selection to the Frontiers of Engineering Symposium sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering (2000), and University Scholar, University of Illinois (2002). Prof. Lewis and Glen Kirby, PhD student, won the 2003 Brunauer Award from the American Ceramic Society for their paper "Rheological Property Evolution in Concentrated Cement-Polyelectrolyte Suspensions" published in the December 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society.