DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

• Sustainable Chicago Magazine features the work that the ChE department is doing on geothermal systems at the Kirie water reclamation plant.

• Dr. Belinda Akpa receives a NSF grant entitled, "BRIGE: Colloidal scavengers for the reversal of drug toxicity".

• Dennis O'Brien Joins Industrial Advisory Board.

• COE team makes Kirie Water Reclamation Plant more energy efficient through a new sewerthermal recovery system.

• ChE Dept. Head & Prof. Sohail Murad invited to be the Keynote Speaker for the 2012 Midwest Thermo-dynamics and Statistical Mechanics Conference held at the University of Minnesota on 5/21/12.

• New Scholarship Program: UIC Chemical Engineering Department Receives $599,766 NSF S-STEM Grant to Increase Enrollment of Women in Chemical Engineering

• Explore the Exciting Field of Electrochemistry - CHE 494 ELECTROCHEMICAL ENGINEERING, presented by Dr. Alan D. Zdunek.

• If you are a Chemistry Major, look here to discover exciting careers with a Graduate Degree in Chemical Engineering!

SEMINARS

• Seminar - Professor Vikas Berry, Kansas State University. Thursday, May 2nd, 2013, 11:00AM, CEB 218

• Seminar - Professor Brian P. Chaplin, Villanova University. Tuesday, April 30th, 2013, 11:00AM, CEB 218

• Seminar - Professor Dilip Asthagiri, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Thursday, April 25th, 2013, 11:00AM, CEB 218

• Seminar - Professor Greg Voth, University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry. Thursday, April 11th, 2013, 11:00AM, CEB 218

• Seminar - Professor Szu-Wen Wang, University of California at Irvine, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Thursday, March 14th, 2013, 11:00AM, CEB 218

• Seminar - "Developing New Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications via Molecular Simulation." Professor Edward J. Maginn, Notre Dame University, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Thursday, March 7th, 2013, 11:00AM, CEB 218

• Seminar - "From Rheology to Biology: The Application of Polymer Hydrodynamics to Problems in Biology" Professor Ronald Larson, University of Michigan, Department of Chemical Engineering. Thursday, February 21st, 2013, 11:00AM, CEB 218

• Seminar - "Integrating Engineering and Biology in Cancer Research." Professor Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, The Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. Thursday, January 31st, 2013 11:00 AM CEB 218