Kristi Anseth, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder, has been selected to receive the Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award for the Rocky Mountain Section of the American Society for Engineering Education.
The award, given each year to only one individual in all engineering disciplines at all schools in the Rocky Mountain region, will be presented at the ASEE national meeting in Charlotte, N.C., in June. Anseth also will be recognized at ASEE's Rocky Mountain Section meeting, March 26-27 in Provo, Utah.
Anseth joined the chemical engineering faculty at CU-Boulder in 1996, after serving as a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her doctorate at CU-Boulder in 1994.
She already has received several prestigious awards, including the NIH FIRST Award (1998), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1998), the David and Lucile Packard Fellowship (1997) and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (1996).
Anseth focuses her research on biomedical applications for photopolymerization and is currently developing new techniques and materials for the repair of bone fractures and cartilage damage in joints.