Constantine Khripin, advised by Professor Anand Jagota, was honored with the Elizabeth V. Stout Dissertation award. Four students, one from each college, are chosen for this award and will receive a plaque and a honorarium.

Two Lehigh engineers have received a U.S. patent for an invention that uses a hybrid polymeric and inorganic material to remove arsenic, a highly toxic and carcinogenic element, from groundwater. Read more.

Phil Bresnahan’s college sport, his current student research, and his future field of study all revolve around water. Continue reading more here.

Lehigh students are participating in the Tiger-Hen-Hawk Rheology Symposium featuring presentations by graduate researchers from Princeton University (Tigers), University of Delaware (Hens), and Lehigh University.

The 33rd Annual David M. Mason Lecturers in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University will be presented by Lehigh President Alice P. Gast. She will give two presentations April 28th-30th, 2008, the first entitled "Why Complex Fluids Are So Simple and Interesting" focusing on her research experiences, and the second "The American Research University in a Flat World". The lectures are named in honor of the late David M. Mason, who was Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at Stanford University.

The 39th Annual Short Course of the Emulsion Polymers Institute will take place from June 2nd to June 6th. This year's course is entitled Advances in Emulsion Polymerization and Latex Technology.

More information can be found at the EPI webpage, https://fp1.cc.lehigh.edu/inemuls/epi/Lehigh_sc.htm

Megan B. Casey, Jinmo Hong and Lisa M. Spagnola received awards last month.

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On Sunday March 30, Arup Sengupta - Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering - appeared on the Eco Radio Network (www.ecoradionetwork.com) to discuss his work on water remediation in Bangladesh and eastern India.

The Eco Radio Network is a weekly radio program that covers broad topics concerning recycling, sustainability, conservation, alternative energy, up-to-date news of recycling events and other environmental issues. It can be heard on 810 WGY Sunday evenings from 6pm-8pm (click here to listen live).

You can listen to Prof. Sengupta's interview here:

Anthony McHugh, the Ruth H. and Sam Madrid Professor and department chair of chemical engineering, has made significant progress in solving both issues by encapsulating drugs in a honeycomb-like polymer matrix, thus helping attain controlled drug release while providing maximum DL to the delivery system. Continue reading here.

He was cited for contributions over the past 30 years to the field of catalysis.

Israel Wachs, the G. Whitney Snyder Professor of chemical engineering and a world-renowned expert in catalysis, has been chosen by the American Chemical Society to receive the George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry.

The award will be presented by ACS’s Division of Petroleum Chemistry at the society’s Spring 2008 national meeting in New Orleans.

Wachs is the second consecutive member of the Lehigh faculty to win the Olah Award. Bruce Koel, professor of chemistry and vice provost for research, won the award in 2007. George Olah is the 1994 Nobel laureate in chemistry.

Wachs was cited for contributions over the past 30 years to the field of catalysis, which is the study of the process in which a chemical agent is employed to bring about or accelerate a chemical reaction.

Undergraduate chemical engineering student Emily Szabo ’08 has been selected by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) as a recipient of its Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer National Scholarship Award for 07-08. Emily was nominated by Professor Mayuresh Kothare of Chemical Engineering. Emily is the current president of Lehigh’s AIChE student chapter, a member of the Society of Women Engineers, and part of the Integrated Business and Engineering honors program.

Throughout his graduate-student career at Lehigh, Leonidas Bleris maintained a dual focus that is becoming increasingly common in the world of engineering.

While designing mathematical models and control algorithms for micro- and nano-scale chemical reactors, Bleris kept one foot in the department of chemical engineering and one in the department of electrical and computer engineering

He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2006 under the supervision of Mayuresh Kothare, the R.L. McCann Associate Professor of chemical engineering, and received several impressive awards in the process.

Professor Mayuresh Kothare, the R.L. McCann Associate Professor of chemical engineering, has been chosen to receive the 2007 Outstanding Young Researcher Award of the CAST (Computing and Systems Technology) Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

SenGupta's filtration system, which removes arsenic from water at the wellhead, has been installed in more than 150 villages in Eastern India since 1997. Continue reading here.

Laurenzi, assistant professor of chemical engineering, and his students are the first researchers to simulate the performance of microarrays. They have developed algorithms that can characterize the cross-hybridization occurring in any microarray design. Continue reading here.

Israel Wachs, professor of chemical engineering, made this discovery while anchoring nanoparticle catalysts of titania on a silica substrate. He developed a "multilevel substrate," with the titania serving as a nanoscaffold able to anchor metal-oxide catalytically active sites and control their reactivity. Continue reading here.

Gilchrist studies the flow behavior of small particles that range in size from nanoparticles to grains of sand. He has fabricated channels as fine as a human hair and added ridges that enhance mixing by stirring the fluid as it passes through the channel. The use of such small systems allows him to measure the mixing and segregation of small particles more accurately and will have direct impact on the design of microscale "lab-on-a-chip" systems used as chemical and biological sensors. Continue reading here.

Interfacial fluid mechanics had its genesis when Chaudhury discovered that droplets can be made to migrate on surfaces. Continue reading here.

Lehigh this year received two NIRT grants and two one-year awards through NSF's Nanoscale Exploratory Research (NER) program. Continue reading here.

Lehigh, in collaboration with DuPont and MIT, recently received a four-year, $1.25-million grant from NSF to solve these problems by developing new ways of manipulating CNTs in solution. Continue reading here.

Lehigh President Alice P. Gast - a nationally-recognized leader in Chemical Engineering - will be officially inaugurated as the university’s 13th president on Friday, April 13, during a formal afternoon ceremony at Stabler Arena and Convocation Center.

Events commemorating the inauguration will span three days, including an academic research symposium on Thursday, April 12, and a Family Day of Service on Saturday, April 14. For detailed information on all of the inauguration events, visit the inauguration Web site.

The program and downloadable registration forms for the 38th Annual Short Course: "Advances in Emulsion Polymerization and Latex Technology" are now available via the Emulsion Polymers Institute. The course will be held at Lehigh University from June 4 to June 8, 2007. Registration for the course is now open.

An international team of engineers, led by Lehigh professor Arup SenGupta, has won a $200,000 prize for its efforts to counter what some people have called the world’s worst environmental catastrophe.

The researchers, who have designed a system that filters arsenic from well water, will receive the Silver Award in a contest sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and The Grainger Foundation.

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Mohamed S. El-Aasser, Lehigh University provost, vice president for academic affairs, and professor of Chemical Engineering, was elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society’s Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (PMSE). The award is the second top honor that El-Aasser has received in five years from PMSE. In 2002, he was chosen to receive the division’s Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings

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Manoj Chaudhury, a respected and popular teacher whose research into adhesion has been praised for its simplicity and ingenuity, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Chaudhury, the Franklin J. Howes Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and former director of the Polymer Interfaces Center, was cited for “conducting fundamental studies on the roles of energetic and kinetic processes on adhesion, fracture and tribological properties of polymeric interfaces.”

APS has more than 45,000 members, including about 10,000 from other countries. About 200 members are elected Fellows each year, mostly for distinction in research. Chaudhury’s election, in early November, was recommended by APS’s division of polymer physics.

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Anthony McHugh, chair of the chemical engineering department, has been named a co-recipient of the 2006 Alan Glanville Award of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. The award is given annually for a paper published by the Institute that is of particular merit in the field of polymers.

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