October 2008, A Chemical Engineering Graduate student Ms. Yuxiu Liu has been selected as the 1st Place Winner for the 2008 Dr. Bernard S. Baker Student Award for Fuel Cell Research, presented by the The Bernard S. Baker Fuel Cell Scholarship Fund and the Fuel Cell Seminar. Yuxiu will be presented with the award during the plenary session of the 2008 Fuel Cell Seminar at the Pheonix Convention Center in Phoenix, AZ on the morning of Tuesday October 28, 2008. She will receive a prize check in the amount of $3500, as well as complimentary Seminar & Exposition registration and an invitation to present [her] research during the poster presentation session on Thursday, October 30, 2008.

Yuxiu is conducting her PhD research at GM Fuel Cell laboratories in Honeoye Falls under the supervision of Professor Jacob Jorne. Her research deals with the development of hydrogen fuel cell for transportation.