Student winners of the Virtual Local Section (VLS) Student Poster Contest will present their work online at the next VLS meeting on Thursday, April 26 from 9:00-10:00 PM EDT.

John Bresland, US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, shares lessons for young process safety engineers. Prior to his time with the US Chemical Safety Board, John was with Honeywell and worked as an environmental consultant.

A new flying wind turbine by Mankani Power recently stole the show as ARPA-E showed off some of its projects. ARPA-E is the Department of Energy's investment program that invests in high-risk, potential high-gain energy projects.

During the poster session at the Spring Meeting and 8th Global Congress on Process Safety, we spoke with Anjana Meel, research and development engineer at Safer Systems, to discuss her research on spills. The research compares shrinking vs. non-shrinking spills to help process safety engineers deal with spills quickly and efficiently.

Dr. Eric C. D. Tan of NREL presented the current state-of-technology (SOT) sustainability assessments for two conversion platforms: biochemical and thermochemical biomass conversion technologies.

This Sunday the world will celebrate Earth Day once again, but if thoughts of the Earth's future cause you more pessimism than hope, then the new book Abundance may be exactly what you need! According to co-writers X-Prize Founder Peter Diamandis and journalist Steven Kotler, the future looks bright, and technology's rapid growth is the reason.