Michigan Chemical Engineering Winter 2014 eNews
The Sinnott and Sapakie families join the Victors
for Michigan campaign
 Scholarships are critical to many of our students’ success, allowing them to focus on their academics and other enrichment activities. The late Professor Maurice J. Sinnott's family (Sinnott is with his wife Mary in the photo) and Sid and Linda Sapakie have recently created endowments that will help ChE students reach their goals as students and be prepared as they enter the profession. Read more »
Bringing chemical engineering to life
 Outreach part of chemical engineering curriculum
High school students from Ypsilanti and Detroit schools traveled to North Campus last fall to see our ChE undergraduates demonstrate principles such as heat transfer and diffusion with drowned gummy bears, imploding pop cans, singed dollar bills and heat-resistant balloon animals.
Read more about the program»
2013 Michigan Engineering Alumni Awards
Two alumni honored for their achievements
Rosemarie Wesson (MSE ’85, PhD ’88) received the ChE Alumni Merit Award and Shawn Hunter (BSE ’00, MSE ’03, PhD ’05) received the Recent Graduate Award. They were honored at the annual College of Engineering dinner during homecoming in October.
ChE Graduate Symposium
Mark your calendars!
 This year's ChE Graduate Symposium will be held on Wednesday, May 7, 2014.This event is an opportunity to hear our graduate students talk about their latest research. If you would like to attend, or if your company would like to sponsor a portion of the symposium, please contact Allison Franck, wilsonar@umich.edu. More information will be on our website soon.
2013 symposium highlights »
Faculty Honors and Appointments
Awards, prizes and appointments
  Sharon Glotzer and Mark Barteau have been elected fellows in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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 Mark Burns and Ralph Yang were named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
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 Suljo Linic has been named an inaugural Class of 1938E Faculty Scholar by the College of Engineering. He also has been awarded the ACS Catalysis Lectureship for 2014.
Read more about the ACS Lectureship »
 Levi Thompson was appointed to the 2014 AIChE Board of Directors, where he will serve a three-year term. Read more »
 Scott Fogler has been selected to receive the 2014 ChE Departmental Faculty Award.
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 Fei Wen has been named the Dow Corning Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering.
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 Lola Eniola-Adefeso has been named an inaugural Miller Faculty Scholar. This award is for faculty whose research is in the medical/biomedical field. The award is made possible through a donation from Michigan alumnus Larry Miller.
 Nick Kotov has been named a Fellow of the Material Research Society (MRS). He will be honored at the MRS Spring Meeting in April.
M-Cubed after the first year
Program gives seed grants to 222 interdisciplinary trios
Since 2012, the MCubed program has given $60,000 seed grants to interdisciplinary trios of qualifying researchers. To receive funding, three researchers from at least two different disciplines simply had to agree to work together on a project. The department was well represented with 20 of our faculty receiving grants for projects.
More about MCubed »
Alumni Connections
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Alumnus Gives Endowed Department Chair Gift
Lembke keeps promises to Michigan
ChE alumnus Anthony C. Lembke (BSE '80) has made a gift to the College of Engineering to endow the Anthony C. Lembke Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering. The endowment will generate discretionary funds for the department chair, to support the work of the department.
Read recent Michigan Engineer story about Lembke »
Changes for the New Year
Savage is interim chair
Phil Savage will serve as interim chair of the department from January 1, 2014 - July 31, 2014 while Mark Burns is on a sabbatical in Northern California.
Summer move
This summer, eight faculty members will move their offices and labs to the North Campus Research Complex (NCRC) before the University begins renovations in the G.G. Brown Labs. They will join six ChE faculty who have already moved to the former Pfizer facilities.
Research Highlight
Traces of DNA exposed by twisted light
Structures that put a spin on light reveal tiny amounts of DNA with 50 times better sensitivity than the best current methods, Nick Kotov and his research team have discovered. Read more »
Alumni News
Green award
Deborah Mielewski (BSE '86, MSE '93, and PhD '98) won a 2014 Detroit Free Press Automotive Leadership award in the green category.
Read more about Mielewski and Ford's use of alternative materials »
Honored by China's Academy
Cunhao Zhang (MS '51) was named a member of the China Academy of Science in laser chemistry. He is one of two Chinese scientists who received the top science and technology award in China in 2013.
View video about Zhang »
For more alumni updates,
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Intellectual Property Basics
Copyrights, patents, and more
Are you considering an entrepreneurial project? Would you like to learn more about your intellectual property rights? The College has created a series of videos to provide you with general information on copyright, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.
View videos »
Alumni Deaths
John C. Chen, (PhD '61) emeritus professor at Lehigh University and former AIChE President, passed away on December 31, 2013.
Eric J. Willing (BSE '00) passed away on May 27, 2013. Eric was married to fellow ChE alumnus, Katie Konopka (BSE '00).
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Sandy Swisher
ChE Newsletter Editor
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