Dr. Sara Abedi has received the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the most prestigious recognition given to teachers/scholars early in their academic careers. The award will fund her study of reactive brine interactions on the properties of rocks at multiple length scales.
Lucia (Lucy) and Kevin Leonard have established the Lucia A. '93 and Kevin P. Leonard '92 Undergraduate Petroleum Ventures Program Scholarship Endowment. Distributions from this endowment will provide scholarships to students pursuing an undergraduate degree in petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University.
Dr. Akhil Datta-Gupta is participating in a Department of Energy multi-university and national laboratory project to create an advanced machine-learning system that understands and renders oil and gas reservoir production processes and conditions as they happen.