News & EventsPitt Professor Recognized for Work to Better Understand and Possibly Control the Human Immune System Steven R. Little, an assistant professor of chemical engineering in Pitt's Swanson School of Engineering, received a 2008 Beckman Young Investigators award for his ongoing effort to create particles that would behave as natural cells do to carry out specific tasks. The foundation is named for renowned scientist Arnold Beckman, inventor of the pH meter and pioneer of Silicon Valley, and awards novel work with far-reaching potential. The award includes a three-year grant of $300,000. More
Prof. J. Karl Johnson Receives U.S. DOE Award Chemical engineering professor J. Karl Johnson has been selected to receive the 2008 DOE Hydrogen Program R & D Award. This award is given annually at the U.S. Department of Energy Hydrogen Program Review meeting held in Washington, D.C. Professor Johnson's citation reads "In Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Hydrogen Storage Technologies."
Bayer Distinguished Lectureship 2008 The University of Pittsburgh Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering was pleased to host Dr. Doug Cameron, Chief Scientific Officer of Khosla Ventures, as the 2008 Bayer Distinguished Lecturer. On Thursday, May 22, he presented a lecture titled "Fuels and Chemicals from Renewable Resources: Evolution and Revolution." The following day he gave a talk titled "Metabolic Engineering for the Microbial Production of Chemicals."
Chemical Engineering Faculty Joseph McCarthy and Robert Parker Receive 2008 Carnegie Science Center Award for Excellence in Higher Education
Professors McCarthy, Parker and Sacre highlight the Pillars Curriculum (Video)
Pitt-Bradford Appoints Acting Director of Energy Institute BRADFORD, Pa. – The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has appointed Dr. James T. Cobb Jr., an associate professor emeritus of the University of Pittsburgh with extensive experience in energy research, as acting director of its new Energy Institute. More
ChE Undergraduates Receive Scholarships for Studies in Petroleum Engineering Joseph Dudas and Zachery Heilman have been awarded Lewis E. and Elizabeth W. Young Scholarships for the 2007-08 academic year by the Pennsylvania- Western Section of the Woman's Auxiliary of the American Institute of Mining Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc (WAAIME) in conjunction with the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc (AIME). More
Chemical Engineering Students Win BIG IDEA Competition Based on Research in Professor Di Gao's Lab Pittsburgh, PA – October 26, 2007 – The University of Pittsburgh Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business last night announced the six winners of the BIG IDEA Competition, sponsored by the Institute’s Entrepreneurs’ Society. The competition, which sought the best business ideas to turn into competitive business plans and businesses, received submissions from students in many different programs and schools across the University. Winners will work with dynamic teams of professional business consultants, industry experts and entrepreneurs to build strong business plans that they can use in local, regional and national business plan competitions. For winners who have already founded their own businesses and those who seek to do so, the business plans will also serve as a solid foundation and tool for entrepreneurial success. Winners include: Njideka Mbonu and Liangliang Cao, students in Pitt’s School of Engineering Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering , and Nneka Mbonu of the Katz Graduate School of Business, who have developed a sensor to detect gelatinases, a family of enzymes closely associated with tumor aggressiveness. Knowing the levels of a patient’s gelatinases can provide information important to the diagnosis, course and outcome of cancer, and thus are useful to doctors determining patients’ treatments for cancer. The BIG IDEA Competition does not end with the plan. Once winners and their teams have crafted elite plans, they will present at local, regional and national competitions. These competitions create unparalleled opportunities for students to network with enterprising students and business people from all over the country, while also providing the chance to earn significant capital to get their businesses started.
Dr. Little Selected as a Clinical Research Scholar Steven Little, Assitant Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, has been recently selected as a Clinical Research Scholar (CRSP) through the K12 mechanism of the National Institutes of Health. This 4 year program's primary intent is to provide training toward independent status at the interface of the fields of Chemical/Bioengineering and Immunology/Transplantation. Dr. Angus Thomson (Director of Transplant Immunology) of the Starzl Transplantation Institute will serve as the primary mentor on the award. The focus of research will be to engineer biomimetic immunotherapeutic strategies through the use of biodegradable materials and the principles of drug delivery.
Dr. Shiao-Hung Chiang, Professor Emeritus, receives the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Filtration and Separations Society From American Filtration & Separations Society News Letter, April 23, 2007 The Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Shiao-Hung Chiang at the AFS 20th Anniversary Annual Conference & Exposition, March 27, 2007, Orlando, FL. More
Pitt Ranks in Uppermost Tier of U.S. Public Research Universities The University of Pittsburgh ranks in the uppermost tier of U.S. public research universities according to The Top American Research Universities, the recently issued 2006 annual report of The Center for Measuring University Performance. The report places Pitt in the company of only six other leading public research universities: the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. More
ChE Undergraduates Receive Scholarships for Studies in Petroleum Engineering Justin Friend and Drew Michelle Sakai have been awarded Lewis E. and Elizabeth W. Young Scholarships for the 2006-07 academic year by the Pennsylvania- Western Section of the Woman's Auxiliary of the American Institute of Mining Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc (WAAIME) in conjunction with the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc (AIME). More Pitt Professor Designs Less-Risky Reactor for Clean, Safe Energy Reactors that burn hydrogen or natural gas to generate energy can be dirty and dangerous. The mix of air with hydrogen or natural gas can explode easily if composition and temperature are not carefully controlled. And reactors often produce polluting byproducts. Now, University of Pittsburgh researcher Goetz Veser has created a safer alternative—microreactors that won’t explode, no matter what the gas composition or how hot they get, and that can keep undesirable pollutants, like nitrogen oxides (NOx), from forming. His results could be used to design processes for safe, clean energy production and hydrogen storage. Veser, who is assistant professor of chemical engineering in Pitt’s School of Engineering, discussed his findings Sept. 12 during a presentation at the 232nd American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco, Calif. More
Alan J. Russell named University Professor of Surgery University Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg made the appointment, which become effective June 1, based on the recommendations of Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor James V. Maher and Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences Arthur S. Levine. Russell is a professor of surgery in the School of Medicine, of bioengineering and chemical engineering in Pitt's School of Engineering, and of rehabilitation science and technology in SHRS. He also serves as director of the University's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, executive director of the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative, and director of the National Tissue Engineering Center. More
New Faculty Join the Department The department is pleased to announce the addition of two new faculty members, Di Gao and Steve Little. Di, who began his appointment on September 1, 2005 has research interests in the areas of synthesis, assembly, and characterization of novel nanostructures, as well as the integration of these nanostructures into functional devices and systems for technological applications such as biomedical and environmental sensors. Steve Little’s research interests focus on controlled delivery for tissue engineering, immunotherapeutics, and biomimetic materials. Steve will join us on January 1, 2006.
Professor Anna C. Balazs Appointed to Distinguished Professorship The University of Pittsburgh has named Anna C. Balazs a Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering in the University’s School of Engineering. More
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