April 22, 2024 Michael Graham receives top award in rheology Written By: Staff Departments: Chemical & Biological Engineering Categories: Awards|Faculty Michael Graham, the Steenbock Professor of Engineering and Harvey D. Spangler Professor in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the recipient of the 2024 Eugene C. Bingham Medal, the highest honor from the Society of Rheology. The medal is awarded annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the field. Graham is being honored for foundational and pioneering theoretical contributions to rheology, including advances in understanding the structure and dynamics of confined flowing polymer solutions, instabilities in viscoelastic flows, turbulent drag reduction, collective dynamics in active suspensions, and blood flow in microcirculation underlying health and disease. The Bingham Medal was established in 1948 in honor of Eugene C. Bingham, an early pioneer in the field of rheology, a term he coined. Professor Graham will receive the medal and deliver a lecture at the annual meeting of the Society of Rheology in Austin, Texas, in October 2024. Previous UW-Madison Bingham Medal winners include John D. Ferry (1953), Arthur S. Lodge (1971), R. Byron Bird (1974) and Charles F. Curtiss (1987).