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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please join me in congratulating Joel Paulson and his team for being
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">selected as the winner of the Application Paper Prize at the IFAC World Congress this year. This work was actually the first paper he submitted as a faculty member last year in October. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">IFAC stands for the “International Federation on Automatic Control” and is one of the main organizations in Joel’s field. The World Congress conference is held once every 3 years (about 3000 participants). The
information is posted online here: <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.ifac-control.org/awards/congress-prizes#Application" title="https://www.ifac-control.org/awards/congress-prizes#Application"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.ifac-control.org/awards/congress-prizes#Application</span></a><span style="color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Congratulations Joel! And thank you for giving us something to celebrate at a time when we all need some good news!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best wishes to you all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red">Umit S. Ozkan, Ph.D., P.E.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0432FF">College of Engineering Distinguished Professor<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0432FF">Chair<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0432FF">William G. Lowrie Dept. of Chemical &Biomolecular Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red">The Ohio State University<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0432FF"><a href="mailto:ozkan.1@osu.edu"><span style="color:#0432FF;text-decoration:none">ozkan.1@osu.edu</span></a> ozkanhcrg.engineering.osu.edu</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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