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February 2017

Decorated Spider Silk Slowly Releases Antibiotics

February
2017
A new synthetic version of spider silk could be used to deliver antibiotics or grow new tissues thanks to a method of functionalizing the silk with a metaphorical click.

Air Emissions Decrease by More than Half Since 2005

February
2017
Facilities subject to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) reporting requirements reduced their air emissions of toxic chemicals by 56% (851 million lb) since 2005.

Prashant Mali

Prashant Mali received a bachelor’s and master’s in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, with a research focus on solid-state biosensors; and a doctorate in Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University, with a research focus on human pluripotent stem cell engineering. During his postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School, he pioneered the development of the CRISPR-Cas systems for eukaryotic genome engineering. For his graduate work he received the Siebel Scholar Award in 2011, and in 2014 he received the...Read more

ACEME 2015 (Fifth International Conference on Accelerated Carbonation for Environmental and Material Engineering)

January 21, 2015 to January 24, 2015
Sponsored by Objectives The 5th edition of the ACEME Conferences builds upon the successful previous editions: Leuven (Belgium) in April 2013, London (UK) in June 2006, Rome (Italy) in October 2008, and Turku (Finland) in November 2010. The ACEME conferences aim at promoting research and...

8th CCPS Asia Pacific Regional Meeting

September 22, 2014
The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) is pleased to announce its 8 th Asia Pacific Regional Meeting to be held in Chennai, India on Sept 22, 2014.

February 2017 EdDiv Announcements

Contents: 1. Education Division Programming in Minneapolis 2. Call for Participation: Education Division Webinars 3. Call for Volunteers: K-12 Committee 4. Instructions for submitting EdDiv announcements ========================================================= 1. EDUCATION DIVISION PROGRAMMING IN...

January 2017 EdDiv Announcments

Contents: 1. Education Division Programming in Minneapolis 2. Call for Participation: Inaugural Education Division Webinar 3. Call for Nominations: 2017 ASEE Summer School for Chemical Engineering Faculty 4. Call for Participation: Live AIChE Webinar with Lisa Bullard 5. Call for Papers: CEE...