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• Chelsea Neil, a ChBE senior and 2009 Summer Scholar who worked with Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Chris Swan, took first place in the Air & Waste Management Association's (A&WMA) Student Paper Competition. Chelsea's paper on the reduction in leachable arsenic from coal fly ashes incorporated into synthetic aggregates earned her a $1,000 cash prize and a one-year student membership to the A&WMA. She presented her paper at the A&WMA New England Fall Conference.
• Nan Yi, a 4th-year Ph.D. student in the NanoCEL group, was recently awarded support by the Tufts Graduate Student Awards Committee for his research project "Hydrogen Production from Decomposition of Formic Acid over Au-Ceria." Nan has been investigating nanoscale ceria with gold as new generation catalysts for the steam reforming of methanol, a reaction that combines methanol and water to produce hydrogen. Clean and efficient hydrogen production is of particular interest now for its renewability and potential as an energy carrier of the future. This financial support will allow Nan to continue his research, to both optimize the amount of gold and determine the practical conditions under which this reaction can be implemented in a PEM-based fuel cell. Congratulations, Nan!
• Faculty Spotlight: Professor Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. She will be recognized for this significant achievement during the 2009 AIChE Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN, next November.
• Fred Huang, a senior ChBE major, is headed to Washington, DC, for the 2009 Solar Decathlon. For the past two years, Fred has been a member of Team Boston, working on the engineering and construction of the Curio House, an 800-square foot, solar powered, net-zero-energy house. In particular, Fred assisted the team with building an energy balance on the house, home appliance selection and energy/water use modeling, and is currently getting it ready to move to the National Mall in Washington, DC for the competition beginning October 8. Good luck to Fred and Team Boston!
• Faculty Spotlight: Professor Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos was elected AAAS Fellow for distinguished contributions to the field of catalysis, particularly for new insights in oxidation reactions on nanoscale metal oxides in fuel conversion and pollutant removal processes.
• Tufts AIChE team won the top prize for their video "Chemical Engineering: A New Era" as part of the AIChE's Computing and Systems Technology Division video contest seeking innovative perspectives on the future of chemical engineering.
• Faculty Spotlight: David Vinson, Professor of the Practice, has received the AIChE’s 2008 Computing Practice Award, recognizing his outstanding contributions in the practice and application of chemical engineering to computing and systems technology.
• Alumni Spotlight: Thomas W. Peterson, E72, Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona and member of the ChBE Advisory Board, has been selected as the new assistant director of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Engineering. Read more about his appointment beginning January 2009.
• Faculty Spotlight: Professor Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos is the recipient of the 2008 Henry J. Albert award of the International Precious Metals Institute, awarded in recognition of her outstanding contributions in the field of precious metals research and applications.
• Department awarded Catalyst Characterization System as winner of Micromeritics' Sixth Instrumentation Grant.
• Faculty Spotlight: Nakho Sung, professor and chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering, wins the 2008 Korean Presidential Science and Technology Award for his contributions to the development of science and technology in Korea.