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Latest News:

• Joseph Lessard and Matthew Boucher receive 2012 Outstanding Graduate Researcher awards
• ChBE alumnus Prof. Dionysios Dionysiou receives SOE Outstanding Career Achievement Award
• Scott McArthur receives Alumni Association Senior Award
• Nan Yi receives Graduate Student Silver Award from Materials Research Society
• Professor Flytzani-Stephanopoulos' research in Science shows benefits of single atoms acting as catalysts in hydrogen-related reactions
• Assistant Professor Matt Panzer wins grant from Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
• Professor Flytzani-Stephanopoulos was a plenary speaker at CHEMECA 2011 in Sydney, Australia
• Seven ChBE Majors Receive 2011 Undergraduate Student Awards
• Matthew Boucher wins IPMI Student Award
• Nan Yi Named Outstanding Graduate Researcher
• Assistant Professor Matthew Panzer has been named the 2011 Dr. Gerald R. Gill Professor of the Year
• Robert Haber (E79, E80, Chemical Engineering) has been selected to receive the 2011 School of Engineering Outstanding Service Award
• ChE majors are Meritorious Winners in the international Mathematical Contest in Modeling
• ChBE loses longtime friend and associate Walter Juda (1916-2011)

Recent News:

• Erythromycin A Produced in E. Coli for First Time
  A team of Tufts researchers led by Blaine Pfeifer have successfully created the antibiotic Erythromycin A by using E. coli as a host agent. The work, published in the November 24, 2010, issue of Chemistry and Biology, offers a more cost-effective way to make both erythromycin A and new drugs that will combat the growing incidence of antibiotic resistant pathogens.
   
• Engineering for Health
  Assistant Professor Blaine Pfeifer and colleagues from MIT have now engineered E. coli bacteria to produce large quantities of a critical compound that is a precursor to the cancer drug Taxol. The procedure described in the Oct. 1 issue of Science, could bring down the manufacturing costs of Taxol and also help scientists discover potential new drugs for cancer.
   
• Engineering atomic-scale catalysts for H₂ production
  The water-gas shift (WGS) reaction is a key step in all carbon-based fuel processing aimed at producing and upgrading hydrogen. In the Sept. 24, 2010 issue of Science, Professor Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison show new advances in the design of highly active, stable and low-cost WGS catalysts.
   
• Kudos to doctoral students Nan Yi, Branko Zugic, and Matt Boucher, all research assistants in the Nano-CEL group, for notable achievements. Nan Yi received the IPMI Student Award, Branko Zugic won a TIE research fellowship, and Matt Boucher won a Travel Award from AIChE’s CRE division to attend the 2010 Annual Meeting of the AIChE in Salt Lake City, Utah.
   
• Y.A. Liu, EG'70, Chemical Engineering, Frank C. Vilbrandt Endowed Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Virginia Tech, was chosen as the recipient of the 2010 Outstanding Career Achievement Award. This award, the first to be given to a chemical engineering alumni, is given on behalf of the School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and recognizes graduate alumni who have distinguished themselves in a career related to their field of study at Tufts. Professor Liu is an internationally recognized scholar in the areas of: computer-aided design of chemical processes; artificial intelligence in bioprocessing and chemical engineering; and green engineering, including pollution prevention, waste minimization, resource recovery, energy conservation, and process integration.
   
• Professor Jerry Meldon was the recipient of the 2010 Henry and Madeline Fischer Award for Engineering Teacher of the Year, as judged by graduating seniors in the School of Engineering.
   
• Professor Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos has been named to the Robert and Marcy Haber Endowed Professorship in Energy Sustainability at the School of Engineering. This endowed professorship was created through the generosity of Robert and Marcy Haber. A distinguished alumnus of our department, Bob Haber, E79, EG80, has been a member of the School of Engineering Board of Overseers since 2002. The Habers hope that establishing this professorship in energy sustainability will promote research in this area and help to lessen the world’s dependence on oil in an environmentally sensitive manner.
   
• Faculty Spotlight: Professor Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
   
• 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: 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.
   
• 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.