Faculty Recognition Nicholas Delgass, the Maxine Spencer Nichols Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the AIChE. https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChE/HomepageFeatures/delgass-elected-aiche-fe... Graduate Student Recognition 2013 Magoon Award * Nathan B. Davis * Laura J. Hirshfield * Daniel Pohlman 2013 Outstanding Service and Scholarship Award: * Aniruddha Kelkar 2013 CETA (Committee Education of Teaching Assistants) Award: * Emre Gencer GPRI Fellowship * Emre Gencer ChE Faculty Lecture Award for 2012: Julie Renner, given on the basis of academic accomplishments during graduate work. The Seminar for this award has been scheduled for April 23rd at 9 a.m. in G140 2012 Research Publication Award of the School of Chemical Engineering, selected based on citation counts obtained from the Web of Science: * Ford, Grayson M., Guo, Qijie, Agrawal, Rakesh , Hillhouse, Hugh W., Earth Abundant Element Cu2Zn(Sn1-xGex)S-4 Nanocrystals for Tunable Band Gap Solar Cells: 6.8% Efficient Device Fabrication, CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 23 (10), 2626-2629, (2011), 10.1021/cm2002836 * Young, Jamey D., Shastri, Avantika A. , Stephanopoulos, Gregory , Morgan, John A., Mapping photoautotrophic metabolism with isotopically nonstationary C-13 flux analysis, METABOLIC ENGINEERING, 13 (6), 656-665 (2011) 10.1016/j.ymben.2011.08.002 * Gary, Dana J., Lee, Hoyoung , Sharma, Rahul , Lee, Jae-Sung , Kim, Youngwook , Cui, Zheng Yun , Jia, Di , Bowman, Valorie D. , Chipman, Paul R. , Wan, Lei , Zou, Yi Mao, Guangzhao , Park, Keunchil , Herbert, Brittney-Shea , Konieczny, Stephen F. , Won, You-Yeon, Influence of Nano-Carrier Architecture on in Vitro siRNA Delivery Performance and in Vivo Biodistribution: Polyplexes vs Micelleplexes, ACS NANO, 5 (5), 3493-3505 (2011), 10.1021/nn102540y * Lee, Wen-Sheng, Zhang, Rong , Akatay, M. Cem , Baertsch, Chelsey D. , Stach, Eric A. , Ribeiro, Fabio H. , Delgass, W. Nicholas, Differences in Catalytic Sites for CO Oxidation and Propylene Epoxidation on Au Nanoparticles, ACS CATALYSIS, 1(10), 1327-1330, 10.1021/cs200373f Staff Recognition - The deadline for the 2013 ChE Staff Excellence Award is March 29. Please take the time to send in your nominations as none have been received to date. Let me know if you need a copy of the rules or the forms. Miscellaneous - US News & World Report published their annual rankings of graduate programs on March 12, 2013. Eight of the College of Engineering disciplines ranked in the top 10, up from five last year. Once again, Purdue's engineering disciplines all ranked in the top 25. ChE is ranked #13, up from #14 last year. Ranking Summary: Unit 2014 Ranking (Published March, 2013) 2013 Ranking (Published March, 2012) College #8 #10 tied with Cornell ABE #1 #1 AAE #6 #6 CE #6 #6 tied with MIT ME #8 #9 tied with Cornell NE #8 tied with Penn State #11 tied with Oregon State CmpE #10 #11 EE #10 #10 tied with Princeton IE #10 #15 ChE #13 tied with Carnegie Mellon & U Illinois #14 tied with Carnegie Mellon & Northwestern MSE #17 tied with U Minnesota and U Wisconsin-Madison #14 tied with Carnegie Mellon EEE #17 tied with Duke, Rice, U Wisconsin-Madison & Yale #19 tied with Penn State & U Minnesota BME #23 tied with Harvard, U Minnesota & U Virginia #23 tied with U Minnesota, U Virginia, U Wisconsin-Madison Upcoming Events * Graduate Students Conversation with the Head - April 3, 2013, 12.00 to 1.00 pm in FRNY 3059 * Women in ChE Seminar - April 10, 2013 * Fundamentals of Engineering Exam - April 10, 2013 * Kelly Lectures - April 16, 17, 2013 * Senior Banquet - April 25, 2013, PMU, West Faculty Lounge * EV Grand Prix - April 27, 2013 * Faculty retreat - May 6, 2013 Please send me information suitable for inclusion in future newsletters. Regards, Cristina Cristina Farmus Administrative Director Chemical Engineering Purdue University 765 494 0027 cfarmus@purdue.edu<mailto:cfarmus@purdue.edu>