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The Institute of Paper Chemistry Foundation supports the research mission of IPST as well as advancing the Paper Science and Engineering educational program at Georgia Tech.The prizes were selected from among some 400 competition entries, of which a third was submitted in the forest bioeconomy category.\u0026nbsp; Professor Sujit Banerjee presented the awards on behalf of the Foundation.\u0026nbsp; \u201cThe Institute of Paper Chemistry Foundation congratulates all participants in the competition,\u201d commented Dr. Banerjee. \u0026nbsp;\u201cI am personally pleased to award these prizes. Congratulations for a job well done.\u201dThe Foundation also awarded $5,000 prizes for poster prresentations to Yan Li for \u201cMicrostructure-based evaluation of material fracture toughness\u201d and to John Copeland for \u201cInteractions of Biomass Molecules with Heterogeneous Catalysts in Aqueous and Vacuum Environments\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Three Ga Tech winners announced at IPCF awards"}],"uid":"27178","created_gmt":"2015-06-18 13:56:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:41","author":"Amna Jamshad","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"416451":{"id":"416451","type":"image","title":"Dr. Banerjee and Dr. Hakovirta present the check to Jie Wu","body":null,"created":"1449254258","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:37:38","changed":"1475895152","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:32","alt":"Dr. Banerjee and Dr. Hakovirta present the check to Jie Wu","file":{"fid":"202544","name":"v5_award_jie_wu.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/v5_award_jie_wu_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/v5_award_jie_wu_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4334,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/v5_award_jie_wu_0.jpg?itok=3ZjrkwSK"}},"416461":{"id":"416461","type":"image","title":"John Copeland with his award","body":null,"created":"1449254258","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:37:38","changed":"1475895152","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:32","alt":"John Copeland with his award","file":{"fid":"202545","name":"v5_award_john_copeland.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/v5_award_john_copeland_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/v5_award_john_copeland_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":61294,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/v5_award_john_copeland_0.jpg?itok=su1po5lZ"}},"416471":{"id":"416471","type":"image","title":"Yan Li accepts her award from Dr. Banerjee","body":null,"created":"1449254258","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:37:38","changed":"1475895152","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:32","alt":"Yan Li accepts her award from Dr. Banerjee","file":{"fid":"202546","name":"v5_award_yan_li.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/v5_award_yan_li_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/v5_award_yan_li_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2737,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/v5_award_yan_li_0.jpg?itok=q_wigpXZ"}}},"media_ids":["416451","416461","416471"],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"42931","name":"Performances"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"129361","name":"ipcf"},{"id":"4754","name":"IPST"},{"id":"10930","name":"prizes"},{"id":"93811","name":"RBI"},{"id":"4174","name":"renewable"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKelly B. 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