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2024.5Yiguang Ju and Huixin He received a 2024 Dean for Research Innovation Fund of Princeton University for Exploratory Energy Researchhttps://research.princeton.edu/news/dean-research-innovation-funds-awarded-highly-exploratory-projects

https://research.princeton.edu/news/new-research-projects-and-collaborations-selected-funding-office-dean-research
2024.4Co-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 Maryland2024 Invention of the Year award
2024.2Yiguang Ju elected to AIAA Fellowhttps://www.aiaa.org/news/news/2024/02/08/aiaa-announces-class-of-2024-honorary-fellows-and-fellows
2023.12Chris Kondratowicz received received silver medals for their research at the The 3rd International Forum on Energy & Informatics. https://mae.princeton.edu/about-mae/news/graduate-students-receive-medals-international-forum-energy-and-informatics
2023.12Yijie Xu received received silver medals for their research at the The 3rd International Forum on Energy & Informatics. https://mae.princeton.edu/about-mae/news/graduate-students-receive-medals-international-forum-energy-and-informatics
2023.1Hao 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”
2022.8Yiguang Ju receives the Alfred C. Egerton Gold Medal from the Combustion Institute (International) https://www.combustioninstitute.org/resources/awards/alfred-c-egerton-gold-medal/
2022.7Zhiyu Shi receives the 2nd-year graduate student Guggenheim fellowshipGraduate Students | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
2022.5Yiguang Ju received the 2022 Distinguished Teacher Award from School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Princeton UniversityGroup portrait of award winners
2021.7Yiguang Ju received the 2021 AIAA Propellants and Combustion Awardhttps://www.aiaa.org/get-involved/honors-awards/awards/award/award-propellants-combustion-award
2021.4Distinguish paper award from 38th Int. Symp. on Combustion by Hongtao Zhong, Xingqian Mao et al., 2021.https://www.combustioninstitute.org/resources/awards/distinguished-papers/
2021.1Yiguang Ju gave a plenary lecture at the 38th International Symposium on Combustion on “Understanding of Cool Flames and Warm Flames”https://youtu.be/GnDGOSJkp8A
2020.12Hongtao Zhong received the Research Excellence Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) of Princeton University
　
2020.10Chris Burger and Madeline Vorenkamp received the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research fellowship:  SCGSR
2020.07Wenbin Xu is awarded the Phillips Second Year Fellowship to recognize a second-year student who has demonstrated excellence in both coursework and research.
2020.07Hongtao Zhong is awarded the Britt and Eli Harari Fellowship fellowship as an international student who has demonstrated excellence in coursework and research.
　
2020.07JSME Best Paper award: Wall Chemical Effect on Cool Flame Ignition Behavior by Minhyeok Lee, Tomotaka Mizuno (Univ. Tokyo), Yong Fan, Yiguang Ju, Yuji Suzuki
　		　
2019.06Aric 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)         
2019.05Hao Zhao et al. paper on “A Supercritical Jet-stirred Reactor”  received the Karl H. Walther Award from THE AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC GLASSBLOWERS SOCIETY               
2018.11Yiguang Ju received the International Prize from Japanese Combustion Society
2018.8Yiguang Ju elected to the Board of Directors of the Combustion Insitute (2018-2024)
2018.8Christopher Reuter received Bernard Lewis Fellowship from the Combustion Institute
2018.7Omar Yehia received MAE Britt and Eli Harari Fellowship
2018.7Hongtao Zhong received MAE Sayre Award with $1000 Prize
2018.2Yiguang Ju elected to the Fellow of the Combustion Institute
2018.2Yiguang Ju received Honorary Professorship from Xian Jiaotong University
2017.7Joseph Lefkowitz is offered an assistant professorship at the Technion – Israel Institute of TechnologyJoseph K. Lefkowitz
2017.7Omar Yehia is awarded the 2nd-year graduate student Guggenheim fellowship
2017.6Yiguang Ju is awarded the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from Royal Academy of Engineering of United Kingdom
2017.5Aric Rousso received the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Fellowship
2017.4Jeff Santner received an offer as an assistant professor from California State University
2016.6Dr. Timothy Ombrello received the 2016 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Congratulations! 
2016.5Yiguang Ju delivered a plenary lecture at the 52nd Korean Combustion Meeting held at Buyeo, Korea on May 11-13, 2016 
2016.3Aric Rousso won the NDSEG fellowship Department of Defense　
2015.12The 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
2015.5Chris Reuter received the Department of Defense NDSEG fellowship
2015.1The 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. 
2015.1A new book by Ju, Cadou, and MarutaMicroscale Combustion and Power GenerationISBN: 9781606503065　Microscale Combustion and Power Generation
March 20th, 2014Jeffrey 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, 2013Congratulation to Michael Burke to be an Assistant Professor at Columbia University in their Mechanical Engineering Department.  Prof. Burke!
June 12th, 2013Yiguang Ju was named as the Robert Porter Patterson Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University.　
May 29th, 2013Congratulations to Weiqi Sun for passing the Subject Component of his General Exam.　
May, 2013The 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, 2013Congratulations 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, 2013Congratulations to Wenting Sun to be offered as an assistant professor at Georgia Tech.　
April, 2013Congratulations to Bret Windom to receive an offer of faculty position at University of Colorado, Colorado Spring.　
Jun. 11th, 2012Wenting 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, 2011Prof. 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, 2011Prof. Ju is elected as an ASME fellow　　
Sep. 1, 2011Prof. 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, 2011Wenting Sun was awarded the Britt and Eli Harari Fellowship　　
Aug. 16, 2011Soccer Championship(Doctors vs. Graduate students)
Mar. 18, 2011Our 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, 2010Attending 33rd International Symposium on Combustion Princeton Reunion at Beijing.
Mar. 18, 2010Group members in annual MAE Mustache Contest.
August 9, 2009Prof. Ju’s group has a Reunion in Beijing. Click 
June 15, 2009Sang 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 2009Wenting passed general exam and congratulations!
May 11 2009Prof. Ju and his team won $7.5M MURI grant.
May 01 2009Dr. Mruthunjaya Uddi joins the group.

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