Abul hussam biography template
•
American born in Bangladesh awarded 'Outstanding American by Choice'
During a United States citizenship ceremony held at George Mason University, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Acting Director Jonathan Scharfen presented Professor Abul Hussam of GMU with an Outstanding American by Choice certificate.
The award is handed out to naturalized US citizens who have made significant contributions to their community and the United States as a whole.
Hussam, born in Bangladesh, developed a household water treatment system that removes arsenic from groundwater. Over 100,000 of his arsenic filters have been distributed to countries such as Nepal, India, and his native Bangladesh.
Hussam was awarded the certificate during the ceremony which welcomed over 50 new citizens at the Fairfax, Virginia university.
"Throughout our 230 years as a nation, the lasting contributions of immigrants have shaped our national identity, form
•
Abul Hussam (PhD, 1982) Born in Bangladesh (1952), Abul Hussam is now aProfessor in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at George MasonUniversity, Virginia, (since 1985).Dr. Hussam finished his early education from Kushtia, Bangladesh (1970). He graduated in Chemistry (B.Sc. Honours 1975 and M.Sc. 1976) from the University of Dhaka and earned his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from University of Pittsburgh, (1982). He then obtained his postdoctoral training at the Chemistry Department of the University of Minnesota and he was a visiting research fellow at Georgetown University and Case Western Reserve University. His research areas involve electroanalytical chemistry, environmental chemistry, and chemistry in organized media. His early scientific work was centered on electrochemistry in non-aqueous media, spectroscopic (NMR and FTIR)characterization of hydrogen bonded water, and the diffusion behavior of micelles and microemulsions.Dr. Hussam later developed computer contro
•
Omar Khasru
Recently Dr Abul Hussam, a Bangladeshi born professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, US, made news when he was named the winner of the million dollar Grainger Challenge awarded by the US National Academy of Engineering, for developing an inexpensive filtration system for arsenic contaminated water. This low-cost device may help put an end to what the World Health Organization call the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history."
A team of researchers led by Dr Taher Saif, a professor of Bangladeshi origin in the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also made news worldwide.
The panel, headed by him and assisted by Jong Han and Jagannathan Rajagopalan, two graduate students, demonstrated that slightly modified metals remember their original shapes and bend. Dented and crumpled metal can snap back to the unbent shape and form, with a little heat.
The research was funded by the National