| JULY |
| July 16, 2008: Wool to speak at '09 World Congress of Chemical Engineering. |
| July 15, 2008: Seabrook plant on cutting edge. Dr. Alan Rozich, chief executive officer and founding partner of PMC BioTec, got the patent for the technology in the mid 1990s. Rozich has a Ph.D in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware. |
| July, 2008: Seventeen professors from around the globe were awarded grants of $25,000 by DuPont Co. |
| July, 2008: Hockessin professor, Babatunde Ogunnaike receives engineering award |
| July, 2008: US striving for sustainability
Broad clean-energy strategy envisions latching onto a billion-dollar industry. |
| July 1, 2008: Antoniewicz awarded DuPont Young Professor Grant |
| JUNE |
| June 30, 2008: UD delegation builds partnerships with universities in China |
| June 24, 2008: Thomas H. Epps III, an assistant professor in UD's Department of Chemical Engineering, is among 82 of the nation's brightest young engineers selected to attend the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 14th annual United States Frontiers of Engineering symposium, set to run this year from Sept. 18-20 in Albuquerque, N.M. |
| June 16, 2008: Professor Richard Wool, featured on "THE GREEN: Big Ideas for a Small Plant." |
| June 16, 2008: Babatunde Ogunnaike, the William L. Friend Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been awarded the 2008 American Automatic Control Council's Control Engineering Practice Award. |
| June 10, 2008: University of Delaware senior goalkeeper Tom Scherr has been named second team All-America for men's lacrosse as part of the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award program. |
| June, 2008: Mark Barteau named one of the “One Hundred Engineers of the Modern Era”, which will be featured in the October issue of CEP |
| MAY |
| May, 2008:
Carl Menning won the Graduate Student Award from the American Vacuum Society (AVS), which gives out award to 10 students each year in surface science. |
| May, 2008: Dan Esposito won the NASA Graduate Fellowship. |
| May 30, 2008: Michael Chajes, dean of the College of Engineering, was quoted in a May 24 News Journal story about construction on the St. Georges Bridge over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. "The bridge community is very conservative since the collapse in Minnesota," Chajes told the newspaper. "If anything, I think people are putting restrictions on more quickly than in the past since what happened. People are taking a more critical look now, taking extra precautions." |
| May 30, 2008: Kelvin H. Lee, Gore Professor of Chemical Engineering and Delaware Biotechnology Institute Faculty Fellow and researchers in his laboratory at DBI, were featured in a May 21 WHYY-TV Delaware Tonight health segment feature on research concerning Alzheimer's disease. They are working to develop an accurate diagnostic tool for the disease and a strategy to protect against its ravages. |
| May 30, 2008: Millicent Sullivan, assistant professor of chemical engineering, was featured on several Web sites, including Nanowerk, FirstScience and Genetic Engineering News, after the announcement that she had received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award for her research on therapeutic drug carriers. |
| May 29, 2008: University of Delaware senior track and field standout Asha Quant will compete in the women's long jump competition at the NCAA East Regional meet on Friday, May 30, at Florida State University in Tallahassee. |
| May 30, 2008: Two University of Delaware professors will teach courses at the African University of Science and Technology (AUST) in Abuja, Nigeria, this summer. |
| May 27, 2008: Millicent Sullivan was a born engineer. As a youngster, she had a fascination with shapes and loved building things with Tinker Toys. |
| May 21, 2008: Stan Sandler has been named one of the "Thirty Authors of the Groundbreaking Chemical
Engineering Books."
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| May 21, 2008: The University of Delaware Board of Trustees approved promotions of 46 faculty members at its semiannual meeting May 19 at the Trabant University Center. Anne Skaja Robinson to full professor of chemical engineering. The appointments take effect Sept. 1.
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| May 19, 2008: Jochen Lauterbach, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Delaware, will represent the United States on a scientific panel focusing on the impact of catalysis on energy and the environment at the G8 Summit, July 7-9, in Toyako, Japan. |
| May 11, 2008: Every day at the gas pump, in the grocery store, and at home, Americans are being hit with the higher cost of energy. If only there were a “silver bullet” solution to our energy needs. |
| May 10, 2008: "Beyond Science: The Future of Health Care, America, and the Life Sciences at UD" at the May 10th Forum. Thomas M. Connelly, executive vice president and chief innovation officer of the DuPont Co., is a member of our Advisory Council. |
| May 10, 2008: In the company of women: Linda J. Myrick, vice president and general manager of Air Liquide Healthcare America Corp.-Scott Medical Products, is a member of our Advisory Council. She was on the panel "In the Company of Women" at the May 10th Forum. |
| May 9, 2008: UD recognizes Latino and Latina students of distinction. |
| May 7-11, 2008: Matt Helgeson receives NSSA Prize for Outstanding Student Research |
| May 6, 2008: Effective July 1, 2008, Mark Barteau, Robert L. Pigford Chair of Chemical Engineering, will become senior vice provost for research and strategic initiatives. |
| May 2, 2008: Jingguang Chen has been named as the 2008 winner of the Award for Excellence in Catalysis, which he will receive from the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York.
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| May 2008: Jingguang Chen, the Claire D. LeClaire Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, has won the 2008 Award for Excellence in Catalysis from the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York. |
| May 2008: The ICC2008 (International Congress on Catalysis) organizing committee informed Ms. D'Addio that her abstract titled "Hollandite-based ammonia decomposition catalysts discovered using high-throughput experimentation", has been selected for a Young Scientist Award. This award will be presented either by IACS or by the ICC 2008 Organizing Committee. |
| May 2, 2008: Professor Suljo Linic has been awarded a DuPont Young Professor Award. This award, which provides research support for 3 years, is awarded annually to 10–15 investigators world-wide across multiple scientific disciplines.
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| May 2, 2008: Reception honoring Oustanding Alumni and Alumni Hall of Fame inductees |
| APRIL |
| April, 2008: Joshua A. Selekman of Wilmington, DE was awarded an AAUP Student Award for his graduate study. Joshua has a 3.85 cumulative GPA and will graduate with an Honors Degree with Distinction. His senior thesis topic is non-viral gene delivery vectors for packaging and transporting DNA. |
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April 29, 2008: Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most prevalent form of dementia, affects some 4 million people in the United States. It is the third most costly disease, after cancer and cardiovascular disease. And not only is there no cure for Alzheimer's; there is no accurate pre-mortem diagnostic tool. Only an autopsy can indicate for sure that a patient had the disease. |
| April 25, 2008: Three UD students awarded 2008-09 Goldwater Scholarships |
| April 19, 2008: 11th Annual Tiger-Hen-Hawk Rheology Symposium |
| April 17, 2008: Jingguang Chen, the Claire D. LeClaire Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, has won the 2008 Award for Excellence in Catalysis from the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York. |
| April 15, 2008: ChEG Junior, Jeff Bosco, awarded a 2008 Goldwater Scholar.
Scholarship details |
| April 10, 2008: 'U.S. News' recognizes Delaware grad programs |
| April 9, 2008: Catherine (Katie) T. Hunt, the leader of Technology Partnerships at Rohm and Haas Co. and recent past president of the American Chemical Society, will speak on “Sustainable Chemistries: Environmentally Friendly and Economically Viable!” |
| April 8, 2008: Bioengineer, Jeffrey Hubbell, director of the Institute of Bioengineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, to deliver April 18 Pigford Memorial Lecture. |
| April 7, 2008: Thomas Epps, III and Jochen Lauterbach review applications for their NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. |
| April 7, 2008: Strategic Planning Committee’s (Mark Barteau, committee co-chair) report available online. |
| April 7, 2008: Foamex Names David J. Prilutski Chief Operating Officer |
| April 1, 2008: Julie Lawson has received the prestigious 2008 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award. |
| MARCH |
| March, 2008: World Science & Engineering University Portal - America's Best Undergraduate Engineering Program 2008 (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) |
| March 28, 2008: Symposium fuels new ideas for future UD energy research. Mark Barteau, the Robert L. Pigford Chair of Chemical Engineering, coordinated the symposium, which was supported by the Unidel Foundation. |
| March 24, 2008: Asha Quant won four events to lead the Fightin' Blue Hens women's team in the meet, which did not have team scoring. |
| March 24, 2008: PilotOnline: And somewhere out in the ocean floats a "Sargasso Sea" of plastic sacks, suggested Richard Wool, a University of Delaware professor of chemical engineering |
| FEBRUARY |
| Feb. 28, 2008: New Nalco CEO eyes overseas growth. J. Erik Fyrwald, Chairman, president and chief executive officer of Nalco Holding Co., University of Delaware bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1981. |
| Feb. 26, 2008: UD energy symposium on March 17 designed to spark new research |
| Feb. 5, 2008: Jingguang Chen, director of UD's Center for Catalytic Science and Technology, has been appointed the Claire D. LeClaire Professor of Chemical Engineering. |
| Feb. 6, 2008: Jingguang Chen takes up the position "in recognition of his distinguished scientific career and his service to the University of Delaware and beyond". -Plantinum Today |
| JANUARY |
| Jan. 23, 2008: UD men’s lacrosse team names co-captains. |
| Jan. 15, 2008: A University of Delaware experiment is under way aboard the International Space Station. |
| Jan. 11, 2008: UD ChE Grad student Michelle O'Malley receives award from Biophysical Society |
| Jan., 2008: Congratulations to Jingguang Chen on being named the Claire D. LeClaire Professor of Chemical Engineering |
| Jan. 4, 2008: Fabric coated with shear thickening fluid developed by Norman Wagner, Alvin B. and Julia O. Stiles Professor of Chemical Engineering
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| DECEMBER |
| Dec. 12, 2007: Harker outlines planning initiatives to Board of Trustees - Provost Dan Rich also recognized the achievement of recently hired Named UD faculty
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| Dec. 7, 2007: Richard P. Wool, professor of chemical engineering and Center for Composite Materials, “Advanced Bio-based Polymers and Composites,” plenary address at the Fiber Reinforced Composites meeting, Dec. 10, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
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| Dec. 5, 2007: UD’s first IGERT cohort, Dan Esposito (Chem Eng) and Meghan Schulz (Materials), attended the first Conference on sustainability in Alaska. |
| Dec. 1, 2007: Heterologous GPCR Expression: A Bottleneck to Obtaining Crystal Structures is one of the most-accessed articles published in Biotechnology Progress |
| NOVEMBER |
| Nov. 14, 2007: Members of UD’s Francis Alison Society |
| Nov. 13, 2007: UD hosts Laird Fellows 30th reunion |
| OCTOBER |
| Oct. 26, 2007: Space shuttle mission includes UD experiment |
| Oct. 22, 2007: The Delaware Biotechnology Institute's second annual science retreat, held Sept. 29-30 at the Virden Center in Lewes, brought together 100 life science faculty, postdoctoral researchers and students to discuss current research and potential new scientific collaborations.
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| Oct. 19, 2007: Symposium highlights work by new Nobel laureates
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| Oct. 17, 2007: Jochen Lauterbach has connection to 2007 Nobel Prize winner |
| Oct. 15, 2007: Presidential Citation Awards for Outstanding Achievement |
Oct. 3, 2007: Professor wins $7 million NIST award for neutron scattering: Norman Wagner, principal investigator for the new UD Center for Neutron Science |
| SEPTEMBER |
| September, 2007: Two CHEG students, Lindsay Schmiedel (JR) and Tracy Powell (FR) were recently named to the CAA (Colonial Athletic Association) Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll for the Fall Semester. |
Sept. 20, 2007: Three new named professors join UD faculty |
Sept. 14, 2007: Alumni, Thomas F. Degnan Jr., "Hero of Chemistry" |
Sept. 10, 2007: President Harker announces Strategic Planning Committee: Co-chaired by Mark Barteau, Robert L. Pigford Chair of Chemical Engineering |
Sept. 7, 2007: Ogunnaike receives ISA Eckman Award: "Outstanding contributions to education and training..." |
Sept. 4, 2007: Eric Kaler named provost at Stony Brook: "Accomplished scholar and administrator..." |
Sept. 2007: Shear-thickening Fluid (STF): How Liquid Body Armor Works |
Aug. 20, 2007: ACS-BIOT Reception: 234th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition |
| 2007 |
Jun. 19, 2007: Eleftherios (Terry) Papoutsakis earns distinguished award |
Jun. 19, 2007: Chicken Feathers to Circuit Boards: Renewable resources - soybeans and the down of chicken feathers |
May 14, 2007: Arthur B. Metzner Commemorative Symposium: Symposium at John M. Clayton Hall to honor the late H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering |
May 8, 2007: Lloyd Ferguson Young Scientist Award: Thomas H. Epps, III, recognized for outstanding record of achievement. |
May 2, 2007: Matthew E. Helgeson was selected to make a presentation during the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium, held as part of the ACS meeting. |
Apr. 2007: Assistant Professor, Thomas H. Epps, III, Receives NSF Career Award |
Mar. 2007: New Research Grant on Fuel Cells: Fuel cell research duo wins $4.6 million DOE grant |
Mar. 2007: Eric Kaler, Elizabeth Inez Kelley Professor of Chemical Engineering and dean of the College of Engineering, was cited in a March 29 Chemical and Engineering News story about chemistry and chemical engineering challenges facing the U.S. |
Feb. 13, 2007: Nanotech Measurement Contest Finalist: Rahul Gupta of the University of Delaware takes second place |
Feb. 2007: UD researchers receive major grant for energy research: Dionisios Vlachos is the chief investigator on a $960,000 hydrogen research grant |
Jan. 2007: Capturing proteins and protein fragments in the environment: EPSCoR grants awarded for ecosystem research |
Jan. 2007: Chris Snively and Jochen Lauterbach: Researching A New Class of Ultra-thin Polymer Films |
Jan. 2007: Merck Poster Award (Biochemical Engineering XV poster session) Best Overall Poster Award to Michelle O'Malley, "Engineering saccharomyces cerevisiae for the expression, purification, and characterization of G-protein coupled receptors" and Co-authors – Emily C. McCusker, University of Delaware and Anne Skaja Robinson, University of Delaware. |
| 2006 |
Oct. 2006: Top British scientist leads off Jefferson Lecture Series: Thomas:“Studying the lives and works of great people can help guide us.” |
Oct. 2006: Alumni honored with Presidential Citation: University of Delaware alumni, Sujata Bhatia, received a Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement. |
Polymer-Solid Interface Connectivity and Adhesion: Design of a Bio-based Pressure Sensitive Adhesive: Richard P. Wool and Shana P. Bunker |
2006: Thomas H. Epps, III, a former ACS Scholar, encourages underserved and underprivileged students to consider careers in the chemical sciences |
Feb. 2006: National Academy elects Delaware's Mark Barteau |
Thomas H. Epps III, assistant professor of chemical engineering, was featured in a March 26 Chemical and Engineering News story about chemists of color. |
Sandler has received worldwide recognition during his distinguished career. |
Chemical Engineering remains among the nation's elite, according to rankings to be published in the forthcoming 2007 U.S. News & World Report newsstand book "America's Best Graduate Schools." |
The DOHS recognized the Department of Chemical Engineering as the December 2005 Department of the Month. The Chemical Engineering Safety Committee is chaired by George Whitmyre. |
M. Liberatore, F. Nettesheim & N. J. Wagner were highlighted in the 2005 Annual Report of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Center for Neutron Research for their article: "Rheo-SANS:Gap-Resolved SANS of Shear-Induced Alignment of Worklike Micelles." |
