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 | Professor Cohen chaired and co-organized of the AIChE Topical Conference on "Water Resource Management: Production, Recycling, Purification and Conservation," November 12-17, 2006 San Francisco Hilton San Francisco, California. The conference is co-sponsored by the National Water Research Institute (NWRI) & the UCLA WaTeR Technology Research Center. |
| Michal Uchymiak and Eric Lyster received a First Place Student Poster Award for the work on "Ex-Situ Scale Observation Detector (EXSOD) for Early Detection of Mineral Scale Formation and Surface Crystallization Kinetics on RO Membranes" which was presented at the CA-NV AWWA Annual Fall Conference, October 2-5, 2006, Long Beach, CA. |
| Professor Cohen presented an invited paper on “Membrane Surface Nano-Structuring: Selectivity Enhancement, Fouling Reduction and Mineral Scale Formation,” at the U.S. - Israeli Workshop on Nanotechnology for Water Purification, Arlington, VA, March 13-15, 2006. |
| Professor Cohen gave an invited presentation on "High Recovery membrane Desalination of Brackish Water; Limitations and Opportunities" at the 2006 Reclamation’s Brine Management Implementation Study Workshop May 3, 2006, organized by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. |
| Professor Cohen gave a keynote lecture on "High Recovery Water Desalination" at the 4th Eastern Mediterranean Chemical Engineering Conference (EMMC4), to be held on January 9-11, 2006 at the Le Meridien Hotel, Dead Sea, Israel. |
| Eric Lyster was awarded the 2006 National Water Research Institute/Cargill Ph.D. Research Fellowship |
| Professor Cohen and his student Michal Uchymiak file for a U.S. patent on "Ex-Situ Scale Observation Detector (EXSOD)". The EXSOD system will enable online monitoring of RO plants for scale formation and for optimization of feed pretreatment and membrane cleaning strategies. (January 2006). |
| The First Western Water Technology Research Workshop was held at UCLA on September 29, 2006. This workshop was organized by Faculty of the UCLA WaTeR Center led by Prof. Y. Cohen. |
| Professor Cohen is the Chair and co-organizer of the AIChE Topical Conference on "Water Resource Management: Production, Recycling, Purification and Conservation," November 12-17, 2006 San Francisco Hilton San Francisco, California. The conference is co-sponsored by the National Water Research Institute (NWRI) & the UCLA WaTeR Technology Research Center. |
| The Water Technology Research Center and the PolySep Laboratory are co-organizers of the 2008 International Congress on Membranes which will be held in Honolulou, Hawaii. |
| UCLA team led by Professor Cohen releases a major environmental study dealing with the environmental impact of the Santa Susana Filed Laboratory |
| Prof. Y. Cohen and E. Hoek are co-organizers of the 2006 AIChE Topical Conference on "Water Resource Conservation: Purification, Protection, Reclamation and Reuse" which will be held November 12-17, San Francisco, CA. |
| Dr. Cohen is featured in a July 5, 2005 UCLA Daily Bruin article on the UCLA Water Technology Research Center. See also UC Newswire |
| A U.S. patent was issued to the development of "Ceramic-Supported Pervaporation Membranes", U.S. Patent 6440309 B1, August 27, 2002. The patent claims include both the development of novel membranes for pervaporation and graft polymerization via the route of alkoxysilylation followed by surface graft polymerization. |
| Professor Cohen assists Congresswoman Jane Harman and the Del Amo Community in evaluating DDT contamination (read the story in the UCLA Engineer: http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/ and a Press release from Congresswoman Harman's Office). Read the complete Review Report) |
| Professor Cohen and Polysep members organized the 13th Annual Meeting of the North American Membrane Society to be held in Long Beach, California, May 11-15 (2002). |
| U.S. Patent: "High Yield Water-Soluble Polymer Silica Separation Resins", Patent Number: 5,035,803, July. 30, 1991 was reassigned as of August 1, 1999 to Professor Y. Cohen. |
| Ron Faibish, the recipient of the IDA Channabasappa Memorial Scholarship, was featured in the November/December 2000 IDA Newsletter (see page 6) |
| North American Membrane Society (NAMS), Membrane Quarterly Newsletter (Volume 13, No. 3, July, 1998) cites the paper "Ceramic-Supported Polymer Pervaporation Membranes for VOC Removal" (given at the NAMS 1998 Meeting by Prof. Cohen) as one of few papers that caught the attention of the Meeting Organizer. |
| Polysep membrane is featured in the UCLA Magazine (1997). Click here to view. |
| Our is described in a DOE-sponsored Newsletter. Click here to view article. |
| Collaborative research efforts with the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarrgona, Spain is featured in the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science Ingeniare |
Last update:
08/22/2008
