ExxonMobil has made a generous contribution of $3,000 to support the UMass Amherst chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and its Chem-E-Car team, which is constructing a chemically powered model car to compete at the 2014 Northeast Regional AIChE Conference at MIT. Every year, a team of approximately 20 dedicated UMass chemical engineering undergraduate students competes in the AIChE-sponsored event. The Chem-E-Car Competition requires each team to build a self-propelled model car that, driven by a chemical reaction alone, travels a pre-set distance while...

David Ford

Professors David Ford and Peter Monson of the Chemical Engineering (ChE) Department have recently received two new collaborative research grants totaling $866,522 awarded to UMass Amherst from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The first grant of $327,038, which includes their ChE colleague Professor Wei Fan as a co-investigator, started on July 1 and is entitled “Developing New Theoretical Tools and Materials to Improve the Separation Performance of Inorganic Mesoporous Membranes.” 

The second NSF grant awards $539,484 to UMass Amherst, in addition to $260,744 going to...

Neil Forbes

Neil Forbes of the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a five-year, $1.56-million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to engineer what he calls “super-safe Salmonella bacteria” to act as Trojan Horses and deliver cancer-killing agents directly into tumors. His Salmonella vectors – armed with special cancer-ravaging peptides and a gene-disrupting ribonucleic acid (RNA) called shRNA – are designed to steal into cancer tumors, interrupt essential cell processes there, destroy cancer cells, eliminate cancer...

Casey Brown

Casey Brown of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department was the co-author of an article published in Science (www.sciencemag.org) on October 24. The article is entitled “Coping with the curse of freshwater variability: Information, institutions, and infrastructure for adaptation.” In addition to Brown, the other authors are J.W. Hall, D. Grey, D. Garrick, F. Fung, S.J. Dadson, and C.W. Sadoff, who are respectively from Oxford University in the UK, McMaster University in Canada, the Environment Agency of Bristol...

David R. Gaboury

On Thursday, October 30, David R. Gaboury, P.E. (B.S. '76 CEE) delivered the 15th annual Tang Lecture in the Amherst Room, 10th floor, Campus Center on the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus. The title of Mr. Gaboury’s Tang Lecture was “Prosperous Growth in Service of Employees, Clients, and Communities.” Gaboury is the president and CEO of Terracon, whose annual revenue has grown in the past 15 years from about $50 million to nearly $500 million, with more than 3,500 employees and 140 offices nationwide. Terracon’s ranking among Engineering News Record’s Top 500 Design...

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