Dear Prof Varma, I have not come to visit you for a while. I did have an unexpected health problem at the beginning of March. It was totally my fault by not listening my doctor's advice to get a Shingle shoot. Unfortunately, I did get Shingles. From the medicine for the shingles, it also gave me some stomach problem. I had never have any stomach problems for the last 10 to 20 years. Fortunately, now it is over and I am fully recovered. I did worked a lot at home since early April by communicating with companies interested in using the Purdue Yeast for cellulosic ethanol and for applying funds from Federal agencies to cover the research cost in my lab at Purdue. One good thing is that we do have much improved yeast for cellulosic ethanol production. It is good for me to establish GTA; now there is no Federal grant to support cellulosic ethanol research at the university level but there are Federal Grants, bigger ones also, to support bioenergy companies. GTA is working hard to apply those. I will try to make an appointment to see you when ever your time permits. Best regards, Nancy Quoting "Varma, Arvind" <avarma@purdue.edu>:

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to inform that Dr. Raj Chakrabarti will leave his faculty position at Purdue and join CMU on August 1, 2012. As many of you are aware, his wife is a CMU faculty member - this move permits them to be in the same location.

Please join me in wishing Raj the very best for the future.

Arvind

Arvind Varma R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Head of Chemical Engineering Purdue University