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GE receives Fast Company "The best designs for social good in 2021" for their water harvesting work, which is a collaborative effort with GE Berkeley, University of Chicago, and the University of South Alabama.  

​Fall 2021

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GE team (GE, Berkeley, South Alabama) receives funding for CO2 capture.

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Fall 2021

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South Alabama has now started a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.  If you have interest, please email Prof. Glover (glover"at" southalabama.edu) 

​Spring 2021

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Glover Group collaborative research featured on University Website.

Story is also shown here.  

Spring 2021

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Glover Research Group part of the team awarded $14.3M to develop a device to collect drinking water from air.

GE Press Release 1

GE Press Release 2

DARPA Atmospheric Water Extraction Program Press Release 

Twitter GE Press Release

​Linkedin GE Press Release


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Fall 2020

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Glover lab shown on Alabama EPSCoR website.  Header image changes each time the page is loaded and one of the pictures is of the Glover lab.

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Prof. Glover recognized with an I&EC Research Excellence in Review Award for 2020.  

The journal used more than 6000 reviewers over a 12 month period, but only 35 were selected for recognition with Excellence in Review awards. These reviewers stood out to the editors because of the number and quality of the reviews and because of the timeliness by which they were provided.

https://pubs.acs.org/toc/iecred/59/36 
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​Fall 2020

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Glover Group Research Highlighted on University News letter.

Summer 2020


This photo was taken before wearing a mask was practiced. University policy now requires social distancing and the wearing of masks.

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The Glover Group gets into the holiday spirit with a coordinated holiday photo.  

Happy Holidays! 

​December 2019

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South Alabama Receives Funding to Study Ionic Liquids - The Glover Group is part of a collaboration to examine ionic liquids for a variety of applications.  

The apparatus shown in the picture was the output of the South Alabama X-Hab team project course.

​July 2019



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Gas Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks is now available for purchase.  The work would not have been possible without the hard work of many authors that contributed to this text.

Spring 2019

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The Glover Group 2018/2019 NASA X-hab project team completes their project design.  The X-hab results were used to support research proposal examining ionic liquids.  The project was collaborative with Dr. Jim Davis and Dr. Kevin N. West.

May 2019

Picture shows (from left) - Gerald Duck, Marissa Horstman,  Hunter Walker, Julius Enriquez, John LeMaster, Cody Lease

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Chemical Engineering (and Prof. Glover's Lab) shown on South Alabama Facebook Video. 

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Collaborative research between the Glover and West Groups mentioned in the University of South Alabama Alumni Magazine (page 12).  

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Glover Research Group shown in University of South Alabama fundraising video.  

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Glover Group shown on University of South Alabama Facebook page.
January 2018.


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Glover Group shown in University Holiday Card. 
December 2018.  

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Prof. Glover and Prof. West Received the University of South Alabama Russ and Robin Lea Faculty Innovation Award for their collaborative research efforts.    Fall 2017

Thanks to Russ and Robin Lea for providing this award at the University of South Alabama; the recognition is appreciated.  


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Prof. Glover attends the Characterization of Porous Solids Conference
May 2017


​http://madirel.univ-amu.fr/web_pages_COPS/COPS_XI 
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Prof. Glover talks with Prof. Krista Walton and Dr. Matthias Thommes during COPS-XI.  

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Yuchen Zhang  passes his Master thesis defense.  Congratulations!
April 2017

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Glover Group's Previous X-hab project shown on current X-Hab Solicitation and website.
March 31, 2017

www.spacegrant.org/xhab/


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Meagan Bunge passes her D.Sc. Qualifying Examination.  Congratulations!          
February 2017

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Prof. Glover attends AIChE 2016 - November 2016

Chairs “Diffusion, Transport and Dynamics in Adsorption Systems” Session and presents work on adsorbents comprised of silica and ionic liquids.

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Prof. Glover attend Barrer Centre Opening Imperial College – October 2016

Membrane & adsorbents in gas applications discussed in depth at Barrer Centre launch day, led by Michael Guiver.  



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Glover Group Acquires new ATR-FTIR with DRIFTS - Fall 2016

Prof. Glover discuss FTIR spectra of a novel adsorbent sample with AB who is a chemical engineering graduate student.  

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Jack Cunningham’s GRSP fellowship detailed on Alabama EPSCOR website. 
 
http://alepscor.org/grsp/round-11-grsp-featured-scholars/

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Prof. Glover attends MOF 2016 – September 2016

Omar Yaghi provides the banquet speech “Reticular Chemistry – Folklore and Reality”
A related publication covers topics discussed during the speech.



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Glover Group Awarded Funding from NASA - June 2016
The Glover Group will begin work in the Fall of 2016 developing adsorbent materials for closed air revitalization in a collaborative project with NASA Ames, Marshall, and Johnson Space Centers.  

Highlighted in EPSCoR report.

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Glover Group Awarded Funding from Department of Defense - June 2016
The Glover Group has begun work on developing textiles functioned with specific surface chemistry for the next generation of military fabrics.  

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Aaron Davis joins the research group - June 2016
Aaron has accepted a post doctoral fellowship and will be supporting the Glover Groups efforts to introduce nanotechnology to textiles and surfaces.  

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Prof. Glover Awarded a Patent - June 2016
The USPTO has awarded a patent titled ​Reactive self-indicating absorbent materials, methods, and systems that is focused on utilizing magnetic materials to detect the residual life of filters.  

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​The 2015-2016 X-Hab project team presenting their work at the Design Symposium.  The tablet shown illustrates remote desktop control of the completed system.  ​

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Meagan Bunge Wins AIChE Graduate Student Award - November 2015
Meagan Bunge receives the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Separations Division Graduate Student Award for her work developing fibers containing with MOFs and other nanostructures.  

​http://www.aiche.org/community/awards/separations-division-graduate-student-research-award

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Glover Research Group Publishes how to Utilize Reactive Dyes to Attach Nanotechnology to Fibers - January 2015

This work titled "Modification of Fibers with Nanostructures Using Reactive Dye Chemistry"  details how reactive dyes can be modified to attache Metal Organic Frameworks, Quantum Dots, or Gold Nanoparticles.  The results illustrate that the approach provides a broad platform to attach technology to textiles, fibers, and surfaces.  

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Glover Research on MOF-74 Most cited Article in Chemical Engineering Science

Chemical Engineering Science has recognized the impact of recent work detailing the adsorption of gases on MOF-74.

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/chemical-engineering-science/most-cited-articles/

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Meagan Bunge Recieves Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering - May 2015

Meagan Bunge recently defended her masters thesis and enrolled in the doctorate program where she will continue her research.

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K. Neil Ruckart loading samples in the 2020 porosimeter.

K. Neil Ruckart  ​joins Hargrove  

Neil now works as a Process Engineer at Hargrove E+C in Mobile, AL.  Neil has commented that much like research, working for an engineering consultant firm is a fast paced environment.  The work requires an ability to research and educate oneself on new concepts within a short time window while staying within a defined budget. 

Glover Group work with NASA eXploration Habitat (X-Hab) detailed in SAE student magazine

The eXploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge is a university-level challenge designed to engage and retain students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). The competition is intended to link with senior- and graduate-level design curricula that emphasize hands-on design, research, development, and manufacture of functional prototypical subsystems that enable functionality for space habitats and deep space exploration missions.  

​http://magazine.sae.org/15momp04/
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Jeffery Kalagian receives Alabama Graduate Student Research Scholars Fellowship - Fall 2015


Jack Cunningham joins the Glover Research Group - June 2015

Jack Cunningham has joined the Glover Research Group to study Metal Organic Framework Materials.

Yuchen Zhang joins the Glover Research Group - 

Jack Cunningham has joined the Glover Research Group to study adsorbents containing ionic liquids.

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Jeff building novel adsorbent materials.

Jeffery Kalagian joins the Glover Research Group - September 2014

Jeffery Kalagian has begun work on adsorbent materials and fabrics modified with nanostrcutures.  

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Glover Group Awarded Funding from the Department of Defense - Fall 2014
The Glover Group will begin work developing a novel method to attach nano-structures to textiles for military applications in the Fall of 2014.  

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Professor Glover Wins Doughnut Eating Contest with Student - Spring 2014

Prof. Glover was talked into competing in the undergraduate doughnut eating contest.  
Prof. Glover won the contest  beating both faculty and undergraduate students.

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