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February 2020

Kamil Gedeon

Dr. Kamil Gedeon received his B.S. in Chemical-Biological Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). While at MIT he was awarded the Albert G. Hill Prize, a prize awarded to minority juniors or seniors who have maintained high academic standards and have made continued contributions to improving the quality of life for minorities at MIT. Post-graduation, he worked at Greenlight Biosciences as a process development engineer working to develop fermentation-based and cell-free processes at the lab-scale and the pilot scale for bioproduct formation. In 2019, Dr. Gedeon...Read more

Bryan Hsu

Bryan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech. His current research interests include understanding how phages influence bacterial consortia, their implications for the microbial ecology within the gut, and ultimately how phages and their communities can be modulated for therapeutic purposes. He is also interested in developing biomaterials for improving delivery and diagnosis within the gastrointestinal tract. Prior to starting at VT in January 2020, Bryan was a Rosenbloom Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School in the lab of Dr. Pamela...Read more

AIChE - The Climate Solutions Symposium

February 24, 2020
Saturday, August 22, 2020,
10:00am to 3:00pm
CDT
Climate Solutions Symposium: Seeking Technically and Commercially Viable Solutions to Global Warming and its Climate Change Effects Engineers, scientists,community leaders, policymakers and the general public are invited to attend a presentation of technical challenges with current views on global...Read more

Dr. Rui Cruz is first recipient of the Young Leader Award

[February 22, 2020] Dr. Rui Cruz has been selected as the first recipient of the Young Leader Award, recently created by the Management Division to recognize an outstanding leader age 40 or younger. He will be presented the award at the 2020 AIChE Spring Meeting in Houston, Texas, USA.

Mentorship program at VCU

Mentorship Program for VCU's AIChE student chapter. For several years, the VCU Chemical and Life Science Engineering (CLSE) department has had a mentorship program where upperclass students (juniors and seniors) mentor underclass students (freshmen and sophomores). This year, the Tidewater local...

Shiver in the River

February 21, 2020
Saturday, February 29, 2020,
9:30am to 4:00pm
EST
Tidewater AIChE is sponsoring a team for the "Shiver in the River" fundraiser for Keep Virginia Beautiful on Leap Day, 2/29/20. Our team plans on participating in the volunteer clean up event (free of charge) and the 5K run / walk. Our local section will sponsor up to 10 participants in the 5K...Read more

Process Safety Progress (PSP) Publishes Special Issue: Loss Prevention Asia 2019

February 21, 2020
February 26, 2020

Free access is available for two months to this important process safety publication featuring highlights from Loss Prevention Asia 2019 (LPA 2019).

Jakob Bredsguard

Jakob is one of the founding members of Biosynthetic Technologies (BT) and served as the company’s Chief Technical Officer until the company was acquired by the Heritage Group in 2018. Jakob now serves as the President of Biosynthetic Technologies Food Drug and Personal Care and continues to support business development or corporate strategy efforts. He is named on over 30 patents and oversaw the development of the company’s products and IP portfolio. He initiated a strategy around developing products that could offer both environmental and performance benefits to not sacrifice...Read more

Van Truskett

Van N. Truskett, Ph.D., serves as Director of Technology Innovation Development for the Office of Technology Commercialization and the Executive Director of the Texas Innovation Center at the University of Texas at Austin. In this role, Dr. Truskett brings her expertise in innovation and entrepreneurship to foster the commercialization of university-based discoveries and enable young startup companies to succeed. Dr. Truskett is a nationally recognized technology and business leader with over 14 years of technical, operations and strategic leadership experience. Dr. Truskett played a...Read more

Marc Thibaut

Marc Thibaut has a MS in chemistry and a MSE in chemical engineering from the University of Liège, Belgium. He joined Dow Corning in 1995 in the process engineering group. Marc has spent most of his career in the P&RD group within the Dow Corning Corporation and Dow Chemical company. Over the years he acquired expertise in  granulation and agglomeration, fluidized beds, spray drying, spray curing, particle characterization, filler incorporation, emulsification and polymerization of silicone-based antifoams....Read more

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