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| 2026.08 | Yiguang Ju and his collaborators (Liangbing Hu and Shu Hu at Yale and Qi Dong at Purdue) received the2026 RD100 award for their invention of programed temperature controlled synthesis of plastics to fuels and chemicals. |  |
| 2026.07 | Yiguang Ju is honored with the International award for science and technology from Tohoku University |  |
| 2026.07 | Yuanxinxin (Chelsea) Cao is honored by the Harari Post Generals Fellowship | |
| 2025.12 | Elizabeth B. Desmet is honored with a best presentation award at the International Forum on Energy & Informatics organized by Institute of Science Tokyo, 2025 December 12-16, 2025, Phuket, 83150 Thailand |  |
| 2025.8 | Yiguang Ju and his collaborators (Liangbing Hu at Yale, JC Zhao at Connecticut, and USPlasma Inc ) received the2025 RD100 award for their innovative development of “Uniform, ultrahigh-temperature, stable plasma apparatus” and its potential applications in manufacturing of extreme energy materials. This is worldwide science and innovation competition, now in its 63rd year. The awards ceremony, set for November 20, 2025, at the Marriott at McDowell Mountains in Scottsdale, Arizona. |  https://www.rdworldonline.com/revealing-the-2025-rd-100-awards-winners/ |
| 2025.8 | Yuanxinxin (Chelsea) Cao is honored by the MAE Guggenheim Second Year Fellowship | |
| 2025.5 | Yiguang Ju gives a keynote lecture at the Canadian Section of the Combustion Institute (Spring Technical Meeting) | https://www.combustion-institute.ca/2025-meeting/ |
| 2025.5 | Yiguang Ju gives a keynote lecture at the 35th National Conference on Combustion and Energy of Taiwan Section of the the Republic of China (R.O.C.) (Taiwan) | https://ncce2025.org/ |
| 2025.4 | Yiguang Ju gives an invited lecture on green fuels and chemicals at 2025 Energy Day of the Institute of Georgia Institute of Technology | https://research.gatech.edu/georgia-tech-energy-day-2025-0 |
| 2025.4 | Zhiyu Shi is honored by Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship for the 2025-26 academic year from the Dean of the Graduate School | https://gradschool.princeton.edu/financial-support/fellowships/princeton-fellowships/honorific-fellowship-charlotte-elizabeth |
| 2025. 3 | Z Shi , X Mao , A Thawko , Y Ju‘s paper of “Numerical modeling of plasma assisted deflagration to detonation transition in a microscale channel” presented at the 40th international Symposium was selected as an “Honorable Mention” in the Combustion Technology colloquium. | https://www.combustioninstitute.org/distinguished_papers.php |
| 2025.2 | Yiguang Ju and Andrey Starikovskiy published a new book “Plasma Assisted Combustion and Chemical Processing” This book is for undergraduate, graduate students, and researchers who are interested in combustion, propulsion, plasma, and electrified chemicals manufacturing. If interested, please ask your university/institute library to order it here. |  |
| 2025.1 | Yiguang Ju is awarded research grants from BASF, ACEE, SEAS, DoE-EERE, and DOE-APAR-E for green energy research of green H2, NH3, steel, and NOx reduction | |
| 2024.9 | Yiguang Ju, Huixin He, John Mark Martirez, and Miaofang Chi received the NSF GCR grant for electrified green synthesis of ammonia using electrochemistry plasma catalysis | |
| 2024.9 | Zhiyu Shi received the Research Excellence Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) of Princeton University | |
| 2024.9 | Zhiyu Shi is honored by the MAE Harari Post Generals Fellowship | |
| 2024.9 | Christopher Kondratowicz is awarded the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award | |
| 2024.9 | Zijian Sun received the Program in Plasma Science and Technology (PPST) fellowship | |
| 2024.9 | Yijie Xu received Harari graduate student fellowship from MAE department and the Program in Plasma Science and Technology (PPST) fellowship | |
| 2024.9 | Yijie Xu received the Larisse Rosentweig Klein Memorial Prize for outstanding graduate research | |
| 2024.5 | Yiguang Ju and Huixin He received a 2024 Dean for Research Innovation Fund of Princeton University for Exploratory Energy Research https://research.princeton.edu/news/dean-research-innovation-funds-awarded-highly-exploratory-projects | |
| 2024.4 | Co-inventors Liangbing Hu, Hua Xie, Qian Zhang and Ji-Cheng Zhao at UMD and Yiguang Ju at Princeton received the 2024 Invention of the Year Award of University of Maryland 2024 Invention of the Year award | |
| 2024.2 | Yiguang Ju elected to AIAA Fellow https://www.aiaa.org/news/news/2024/02/08/aiaa-announces-class-of-2024-honorary-fellows-and-fellows |  |
| 2023.12 | Chris Kondratowicz received silver medals for their research at The 3rd International Forum on Energy & Informatics. |  |
| 2023.12 | Yijie Xu received silver medals for their research at the 3rd International Forum on Energy & Informatics. https://mae.princeton.edu/about-mae/news/graduate-students-receive-medals-international-forum-energy-and-informatics | |
| 2023.1 | Hao Zhao, Chao Yan, Guohui Song, Ziyu Wang, Yiguang Ju received Distinguished Paper Award from the 39th International Symposium on Combustion, 2023 “Studies of low and intermediate temperature oxidation of propane up to 100 atm in a supercritical-pressure jet-stirred reactor” | |
| 2022.8 | Yiguang Ju receives the Alfred C. Egerton Gold Medal from the Combustion Institute (International) |   |
| 2022.7 | Zhiyu Shi receives the 2nd-year graduate student Guggenheim fellowship |  |
| 2022.5 | Yiguang Ju received the 2022 Distinguished Teacher Award from School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Princeton University |  |
| 2021.7 | Yiguang Ju received the 2021 AIAA Propellants and Combustion Award https://www.aiaa.org/get-involved/honors-awards/awards/award/award-propellants-combustion-award |  |
| 2021.4 | Distinguish paper award from 38th Int. Symp. on Combustion by Hongtao Zhong, Xingqian Mao et al., 2021. https://www.combustioninstitute.org/resources/awards/distinguished-papers/ | |
| 2021.1 | Yiguang Ju gave a plenary lecture at the 38th International Symposium on Combustion on “Understanding of Cool Flames and Warm Flames” https://youtu.be/GnDGOSJkp8A | |
| 2020.12 | Hongtao Zhong received the Research Excellence Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) of Princeton University |  |
| 2020.10 | Chris Burger and Madeline Vorenkamp received the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research fellowship: SCGSR |   |
| 2020.07 | Wenbin Xu is awarded the Phillips Second Year Fellowship to recognize a second-year student who has demonstrated excellence in both coursework and research. |  |
| 2020.07 | Hongtao Zhong is awarded the Britt and Eli Harari Fellowship fellowship as an international student who has demonstrated excellence in coursework and research. | |
| 2020.07 | JSME Best Paper award: Wall Chemical Effect on Cool Flame Ignition Behavior by Minhyeok Lee, Tomotaka Mizuno (Univ. Tokyo), Yong Fan, Yiguang Ju, Yuji Suzuki | |
| 2019.06 | Aric Rousso is awarded the First Prize for the Best Oral Presentation at the 24th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry in Naples, Italy (June 9-14, 2019) |   |
| 2019.05 | Hao Zhao et al. paper on “A Supercritical Jet-stirred Reactor” received the Karl H. Walther Award from THE AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC GLASSBLOWERS SOCIETY |    |
| 2018.11 | Yiguang Ju received the International Prize from Japanese Combustion Society | |
| 2018.8 | Yiguang Ju elected to the Board of Directors of the Combustion Insitute (2018-2024) | |
| 2018.8 | Christopher Reuter received Bernard Lewis Fellowship from the Combustion Institute | |
| 2018.7 | Omar Yehia received MAE Britt and Eli Harari Fellowship | |
| 2018.7 | Hongtao Zhong received MAE Sayre Award with $1000 Prize | |
| 2018.2 | Yiguang Ju elected to the Fellow of the Combustion Institute | |
| 2018.2 | Yiguang Ju received Honorary Professorship from Xian Jiaotong University | |
| 2017.7 | Joseph Lefkowitz is offered an assistant professorship at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | |
| 2017.7 | Omar Yehia is awarded the 2nd-year graduate student Guggenheim fellowship | |
| 2017.6 | Yiguang Ju is awarded the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from Royal Academy of Engineering of United Kingdom | |
| 2017.5 | Aric Rousso received the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Fellowship | |
| 2017.4 | Jeff Santner received an offer as an assistant professor from California State University |  |
| 2016.6 | Dr. Timothy Ombrello received the 2016 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Congratulations! |  |
| 2016.5 | Yiguang Ju delivered a plenary lecture at the 52nd Korean Combustion Meeting held at Buyeo, Korea on May 11-13, 2016 |  |
| 2016.3 | Aric Rousso won the NDSEG fellowship Department of Defense | |
| 2015.12 | The best paper award at the 2015 Japanese combustion symposium (Nov.17, 2015) by the Japanese Section of the Combustion Institute.“Quantitative measurements of HO 2/H 2 O 2 and intermediate species in low and intermediate temperature oxidation of dimethyl ether.” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 35, no. 1 (2015), pp. 457-464, by Kurimoto, Naoki, Brian Brumfield, Xueliang Yang, Tomoya Wada, Pascal Diévart, Gerard Wysocki, and Yiguang Ju, | |
| 2015.6 | Dr. Jay Uddi accepted a faculty position at University of Alabama | |
| 2015.5 | Chris Reuter received the Department of Defense NDSEG fellowship | |
| 2015.1 | The Distinguished Paper Award in the Laminar Flames Colloquium of the 35th International Symposium on Combustion (2015).was awarded to “Self-sustaining n-heptane cool diffusion flames activated by ozone” by Won, S. H., Jiang, B., Diévart, P., Sohn, C. H., & Ju, Y. |  |
| 2015.1 | A new book by Ju, Cadou, and MarutaMicroscale Combustion and Power GenerationISBN: 9781606503065 |  |
| March 20th, 2014 | Jeffrey Santner is awarded the best presentation award for “Evaluation of thermal radiation effects on apparent propagation rates of high pressure spherical flames” presented at the 2013 Eastern Section of Combustion Meeting | |
| Sept 18th, 2013 | Congratulation to Michael Burke to be an Assistant Professor at Columbia University in their Mechanical Engineering Department. |  Prof. Burke! |
| June 12th, 2013 | Yiguang Ju was named as the Robert Porter Patterson Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University. | |
| May 29th, 2013 | Congratulations to Weiqi Sun for passing the Subject Component of his General Exam. | |
| May, 2013 | The Institute of Mechanics of Chinese Academy of Sciences presented Prof. Yiguang Ju the honor of the Hsue-Shen Tsien Professorship of Engineering Sciences. Prof. Hsue-Shen Tsien was the Robert Goddard Professor of CalTech and is the father of rockets and spaceflight of China. |  |
| May 21st, 2013 | Congratulations to Bret, Bo, Sang Hee and Prof. Ju for the First Place Award for the Art Merit of the Combustion Art Competition at the 8th US National Combustion Meeting |  |
| April, 2013 | Congratulations to Wenting Sun to be offered as an assistant professor at Georgia Tech. | |
| April, 2013 | Congratulations to Bret Windom to receive an offer of faculty position at University of Colorado, Colorado Spring. | |
| Jun. 11th, 2012 | Wenting was awarded the Bernard Lewis Fellowship from the Combustion Institute (The Bernard Lewis Fellowship was established to encourage high quality research in combustion by young scientists and engineers. These Fellowships are to be awarded at each International Symposium on Combustion to no more than five recipients.) | |
| Nov. 1, 2011 | Prof. Ju won The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. The award is given to internationally renowned scientists and scholars from abroad who completed their doctorates less than 18 years ago. The Humboldt Foundation grants up to 25 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Awards annually. The award is valued at 45,000 EUR. |  |
| Oct. 14, 2011 | Prof. Ju is elected as an ASME fellow | |
| Sep. 1, 2011 | Prof. Ju was awarded National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator’s Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of his outstanding contribution to NASA’s space missions |  |
| Sep. 1, 2011 | Wenting Sun was awarded the Britt and Eli Harari Fellowship | |
| Aug. 16, 2011 | Soccer Championship(Doctors vs. Graduate students) | |
| Mar. 18, 2011 | Our paper “Effects of non-equilibrium plasma discharge on counterflow diffusion flames extinction”, was selected as the Distinguished Paper in the New Technology colloquium of the 33rd International Symposium on Combustion.[PDF] | |
| Aug. 2nd, 2010 | Attending 33rd International Symposium on Combustion Princeton Reunion at Beijing. | |
| Mar. 18, 2010 | Group members in annual MAE Mustache Contest. | |
| August 9, 2009 | Prof. Ju’s group has a Reunion in Beijing. Click | |
| June 15, 2009 | Sang Hee and Tim are on TV! They appear on an NJN News Science & Technology Report featuring Princeton University and its research on energy and combustion. To view the video clip, follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkMpor_q5_4. | |
| May 13 2009 | Wenting passed general exam and congratulations! | |
| May 11 2009 | Prof. Ju and his team won $7.5M MURI grant. | |
| May 01 2009 | Dr. Mruthunjaya Uddi joins the group. |
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