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This is an exciting time for the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering as we anticipate our 100th anniversary. The Board of Trustees proclaimed the chemical engineering degree program in 1914 and the first graduating class marched in 1915.
To commemorate this special event, we will be publishing a Centennial book. This book will trace the department's beginnings as an industrial chemistry major in 1914, its transition to departmental status in 1938, important connections with DuPont and other chemical companies in the post-World War II era, and its expansion in the late twentieth-century into fields such as energy and biochemical engineering. The book will reflect on our past excellence and document the department’s faculty, research focus and curriculum, emphasizing the human dimension.
We are interested in hearing your remembrances. We encourage you to visit our commemorative page to share your cherished memories using the button above; some of these may be published in the commemorative book project.
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Targeting treatment: Research aims to improve personal care, medicinal products
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Farm fresh fuels?: UD joins team working to turn farm refuse into useful biofuels, chemicals
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced $25 million in funding to four programs engaged in biomass biofuel, and farm-based technology research. Researchers from the University of Delaware are teaming up with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) program at the Eastern Regional Research Center in Wyndmoor, Pa., which received a $6.87 million grant to develop farm-central biofuel technologies.Dion Vlachos, director of the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI) and Elizabeth Inez Kelley Professor at UD, will lead modeling studies focused on making fuels from bio-oil as a member of the ARS team.
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Eric Furst joins NASA Public Affairs Officer Kelly Humphries in the Mission Control Center in Houston via telephone to discuss the InSpace-3 experiment taking place aboard the International Space Station.
Driving energy solutions: UD researcher among 66 selected to share in energy technology funding
University of Delaware professor Yushan Yan is among America’s top scientists and engineers working to develop transformational energy technology solutions. His work is one of 66 cutting-edge research projects selected for more than $130 million in funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) OPEN 2012 program, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced Nov. 28.
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