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December 2015

2015 International Travel Grant Awardees

December 4, 2015
2015 AIChE Annual Student Conference in Salt Lake City with Peter Lederman, AIChE Foundation Chair

This year, thanks to the generous support of donors, the AIChE Foundation provided travel grants that enabled 8 Interntional Student Leaders to attend the 2015 Annual Student Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.

AIChE is pleased to have invited the following grant recipients:

California Baptist University Student Chapter

Introduction to SIS

December 4, 2015
Tuesday, March 15, 2016, 5:45pm CDT
SPEAKER Paul Gruhn is the Global Functional Safety Consultant with aeSolutions in Houston, Texas. Paul is an ISA (International Society of Automation) Fellow, a member of the ISA 84 standard committee (on safety instrumented systems), the developer and instructor of ISA courses on safety systems,...Read more

Jenner & Block

Hotel Info

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The Bethesda North Marriott is currently sold out. We recommend the Bethesda Marriott at $179/$249 over the conference dates. Reserve here. For more information on the hotel and directions from the airport, use link below: Directions and more Hotel Info here!

Modi and Hollande Announce Solar Alliance at Climate Talks

December 3, 2015
December 4, 2015

It's amazing how quickly the falling price of solar and wind power has shifted the global energy consensus.

Scientists Breathe New Life into Lithium-Air Batteries

December
2015
With energy densities ten times higher than conventional lithium-ion batteries, lithium-air batteries could one day enable electric vehicles to travel distances comparable to gasoline-powered cars. Several challenges, however, have prevented lithium...

New MOF Expands and Contracts to Store Methane

December
2015
Natural gas offers several environmental and economic advantages over petroleum as a fuel for the transportation sector. And while its use is increasing, mainly for commercial and fleet vehicles, natural gas has yet to make significant inroads into...

Liquid with Floating Holes Could Trap CO2

December
2015
A liquid with tiny holes floating around in it may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but that’s what an international team of scientists has created. Currently just a prototype, the permanently porous liquid represents a new class of material...

Hybrid Material Flexes Its Muscles

December
2015
A new material developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that combines the flexibility of a polymer with the rigidity of a metal has implications for a range of applications, from drug delivery to gas storage and...