Former vice president Al Gore and Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens have called for immediate and drastic measures to transform America's energy portfolio within the next ten years...
The Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association (SOCMA) and the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) recently hosted 350 attendees at the 2008 Chemical Sector Security Summit...
Brevity is the soul of wit. What better way to sum up what editors do and why we do it? It has been one of my favorite sayings since the first time I heard it from my high school English teacher...
Unarguably, we are living in tough economic times. The U.S. stock market continues to experience massive fluctuations, and financial pundits predict that the volatility is not likely to go away any time soon...
What's in your time capsule? How would you characterize your generation? Dee Giffin Flaherty and Hank Kohlbrand posed those questions to the attendees at the Pittsburgh Section's celebration of AIChE's first annual meeting (p. 20)...
Twenty years ago last August, Nike's advertising slogan "Just Do It"hit the airwaves. Before long, that simple three-word phrase was inspiring athletes and non-athletes alike...
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used,"said astronomer, astrochemist and author Carl Sagan...
When I began my editorial career, we received breaking news over a clattering telex machine. On May 2, 1982, one of my colleagues stood mesmerized watching a dispatch come over the wire, then he tore off the report and exclaimed, "Holy $%#@!
Keeping chemical engineers up-to-date on the news that affects our industries and our careers is especially challenging for a monthly publication such as CEP...
