Hossein Salami, a ChE Ph.D. student in our group, won first place for his presentation “Using reaction network graphs to study the dynamic behavior of chemically reactive systems: Application to chemical vapor deposition processes” at the 2017 Graduate Research Appreciation Day here at the University of Maryland. Hossein’s talk was part of the Energy and Technology session of the event and the 1st place award comes with a $500 travel grant. Hossein’s work focuses of chemical reaction network analysis for ALD and CVD processes and is supported by the the CBET division of the National Science Foundation.