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Kane joined Rensselaer in 2001 after completing a post-doctorate in chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University.
Among the recent honors he has received are the Rensselaer School of Engineering Excellence in Research Award (2004), the National Science Foundation Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSF-NSEC) Research Seed Award (2003), and an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF) New Faculty Grant (2002). He also was the recipient of the Outstanding Seminar Award from the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT in 1997 and received an NSF graduate fellowship. Kane has been elected to the Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Beta Kappa honor societies. | 