Three chemical and biomolecular engineering graduate students were selected as 2025-2026 Mavis Future Faculty Fellows by The Grainger College of Engineering. This fellowship program is designed to facilitate training for the next generation of engineering professors, with three main components in research, teaching and service.
Fellows:
Michael Chen
Faculty Advisor: Diwakar Shukla
Research Focus: Computationally Guided Structure-Based Drug Discovery for G-Protein Coupled Receptors.
Haisu Kang
Faculty Advisor: Charles Sing
Research Focus: Coarse-grained modeling of bottlebrush polymers for large-scale simulations of solutions and melts, with applications in photonic crystals and 3D printing.
Paul (Eun Suk) Lee
Advisor: Alexa S. Kuenstler
Research focus: Incorporating azobenzene photoswitches into polymer matrices to enable precise spatiotemporal control of ionic conductivity.
The Mavis Future Faculty Fellows Program is made possible by a gift from Frederic T. and Edith F. Mavis. Mavis received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Illinois. He was a professor of civil engineering at several universities and Dean of Engineering at the University of Maryland from 1957 until 1967. He passed away in 1983. Mavis directed the endowment fund be used to support doctoral students in Grainger College who desire to become engineering faculty.