Andrej Lenert will join the department as an assistant professor in Fall 2016. He holds S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT, where he studied nanostructured materials for improved solar thermal power generation.
Mark Burns has been appointed the Anthony C. Lembke Department Chair of Chemical Engineering. Anthony (Tony) Lembke, a ChE alumnus who received his BSE in 1980, endowed this chair.
Frank received an MS in chemical engineering in 1939 and was the 1st employee at Air Products. Frank will turn 100 this October! He has recently given a generous gift to our department.
Michigan Homecoming Weekend is October 21 & 22. Lunch with the department will be from 12:00-2:00 p.m. on Friday, October 21. Other events this year include a North Campus Amazing Race and the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Lurie Bell Tower.
David A. Tirrell presented the 46th Annual Donald L. Katz Lectureship in Chemical Engineering. Tirrell is the Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at CalTech. He is a member of all three branches (Sciences, Engineering and Medicine) of the U.S. National Academies.
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he Fifth Annual ChE Graduate Symposium was held at the Ford Presidential Library on May 12. The keynote speaker was Dr. Rosemarie Wesson (MSE '85, PhD '88), Associate Dean for Research at The City College of New York
Nicholas Kotov received the UNESCO Medal for his work with the self-organization of nanoparticles.
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Thurber Wins NSF Award
Greg Thurber has won a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award. Learn more >
Also read about honors and awards for Lola Eniola- Adefeso, Scott Fogler, Nick Kotov, Jennifer Linderman, Suljo Linic, Fei Wen and Nick Kotov and our graduate students.
In May, the Regents of the University of Michigan approved the promotion of Sunitha Nagrath from assistant professor to associate professor of chemical engineering, with tenure.
Linderman is new director of ADVANCE, the U-M program designed to improve the campus environment for faculty members and to support diversity and faculty success.
Light waves have been harnessed by Joerg Lahann's group to reveal molecules in blood and other samples in real time. It could enable new discoveries in the life sciences.
Levi Thompson explains the uses of different energy storage technologies, such as flow batteries and nanomaterials, and discusses the future of energy storage.
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