|
We are pleased to announce that Prof. Rustem Ismagilov from the University of Chicago will be joining the CCE faculty beginning this summer as John W. and Herberta M. Miles Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.
++++
Frances Arnold, Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry, has been named co-recipient of the Charles Stark Draper Prize by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Arnold was awarded the $500,000 prize—the engineering profession's highest honor—for a method called directed evolution, used worldwide to guide the creation of certain properties in proteins and cells, allowing the engineering of novel enzymes and biocatalytic processes for pharmaceutical and chemical products.
++++
 CCE alum Eric Kaler has been named president of the University of Minnesota.
++++
Richard
C. Flagan, Executive Officer, Irma and Ross McCollum Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of
Environmental Science and Engineering, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, "for leadership in invention, measurement, production, and technology of aerosols.
++++
Zhen-Gang Wang, Professor of ChemicallEngineering, was awarded the 2008 Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Caltech'smost prestigious award for teaching, it is awarded annually to honor a professor who demonstrates unusual ability, creativity, and innovation in undergraduate and graduate classroom or lab teaching. A committee of previous Feynman prizewinners, students, and faculty select each year's winner. To read more, see the press release.
++++
Frances Arnold, the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for "pioneering the use of directed evolution as an engineering tool to create useful biological systems. " Prof. Arnold is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. She is one of only 8 persons elected to all three branches of the National Academies, and the only woman awarded this distinction.
|
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in the area of chemical engineering. Candidates with strong commitments to research and teaching excellence are encouraged to apply. We expect to make the appointment at the assistant professor level, but consideration will be given to exceptionally well-qualified applicants at the full professor level. Appointment will be contingent upon completion of all requirements for a Ph.D. in chemical engineering or in a related field. Each application should include a curriculum vita, publication list, a description of proposed research, and three letters of recommendation, and should be sent via email (search@cheme.caltech.edu) to:
Chair of the Chemical Engineering Search Committee
M/C 210-41, California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
Applications should be received by October 1, 2011. The California Institute of Technology is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and disabled persons are encouraged to apply. |
Our 2010-11 named lectures:
Our 2011 Vaughan Lecturer is Shekhar Garde, of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His topic: "Hydration Phenomena at the Interface of Physics and Biology: A New Fluctuations-based Perspective." Go here for more information.
The 44th annual Lacey Lecturer is Arup Chakraborty, Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biological Engineering at MIT. Prof. Chakraborty will give his technical lecture on Tuesday, March 8, 2011, on "Understanding adaptive immunity: a cross-road of the physical, life, and engineering sciences." His second lecture, on Thursday, March 10, is geared toward a more general audience: "How to hit HIV where it hurts." See the Lacey Lectureship page for more.
The 2011 Economou Prize winner will be announced soon. For more details, click here.
For more on all of our upcoming Chemical Engineering seminars, see our Seminars page.
|
Chemical Engineering's Vivek Narsimhan received a Churchill Scholarship for 2008-09. He is studying Advanced Mathematics (Maths Part III) at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. This award covers all university and college tuition & fees, plus allowances for his cost of living and travel. Only 13 were awarded this year.
Vivek's work at Caltech included modeling the behavior of soft biomaterials, with an eye to developing shape-changing replacement lenses to be used for cataract patients. Professor Julie Kornfield was his advisor.
Vivek has also received the Robert Byrd Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement and the Caltech Upperclass Merit Award. He has served as the vice president of Caltech's AIChE chapter.
|
 David A. Tirrell has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, (2008) for his "pioneering contributions to bioengineered materials and the synthesis of novel artificial proteins." Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.
Professor Tirrell was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. He received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society in 2007.
++++
John F. Brady, Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, was named the 2007 recipient of the Society of Rheology Bingham Medal for his outstanding contributions to the field of rheology. The award was presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society of Rheology in Salt Lake City,
October 2007. |
