Meet Our 2022 Recipient

Srinivasa Raghavan

Dr. Srinivasa “Srini” Raghavan, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is this year’s winner. 

Raghavan is a UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher whose research focuses on inventing fluids or soft matter with new properties by structuring the material at the nanoscale using simple, available, and inexpensive precursors. This enables the materials to have practical applications, such as a polymer that converts liquid blood into a gel to stop bleeding, which received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval and is now produced by Medcura as Rapid-Seal Wound Gel.

Srinivasa Raghavan

Past Recipients

• 2021: Min Wu, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2020: Eric Wachsman, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• 2019: Reza Ghodssi, Electrical and Computer Science Engineering
• 2018: Ichiro Takeuchi, Materials and Science Engineering
• 2017: Norman Wereley, Aerospace Engineering
• 2016: Howard Milchberg, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, IREAP
• 2015: Gary Rubloff, Materials Science and Engineering
• 2014: Christopher Davis, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2013: Manfred Wuttig, Materials Science and Engineering
• 2012: Peter Kofinas, Bioengineering
• 2011: Michael Zachariah, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry
• 2010: Allen Davis,  Civil and Environmental Engineering
• 2009: Michael Pecht, Mechanical Engineering and Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering
• 2008: K. J. Ray Liu, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2007: Rama Chellappa, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2006: Ashwani Gupta, Mechanical Engineering
• 2005: Edward Ott, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2004: Thomas Antonsen, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2003: William Bentley, Bioengineering
• 2002: Inderjit Chopra, Aerospace Engineering
• 2001: Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Materials Science and Engineering