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November 2009 - The UR Dept. of Chemical Engineering has established a M.S. program in Alternative Energy. Applications are currently being accepted for the Fall 2010 semester.
The Program has been designed to meet the growing demand of students desiring to enter a technical filed of long-term global impact and will prepare students for careers as engineers and scientists in developing new energy technology.
http://www.che.rochester.edu/altenerg... Read more  18.11.2009.
September 2009 Professor Matthew Z. Yates was recently appointed Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Rochester, beginning a three-year term running through 2012. He received his bachelor's degree from Tulane University (1994) and his doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas (1999). He joined the University of Rochester in 2001 after a two year appointment as Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory... Read more 03.09.2009.
June 2009 Daniel Fink, a senior majoring in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Environmental Engineering at the University of Rochester, has been selected for the Kauffman-Singapore Scholars Program. Fink is the first Rochester student to participate in the program and is one of only five students chosen from a national pool of over 160 applicants. Fink will spend five months studying commercialization and entrepreneurship at the Nanyang Technopreneurship Center at Nanyang ... Read more 06.05.2009.
April 2009 David Borrelli, a senior majoring in chemical engineering with minors in math, chemistry, and materials science at the University of Rochester, has been named a 2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and will advance his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this fall. Borrelli is the fifth University of Rochester student to receive such a fellowship since 2005 and will receive three years of funding to complete a doctoral degree i... Read more 04.05.2009.
November 2008 Engineer Granted $1.75 Million to Produce Hydrogen from Cellulosic Biomass University of Rochester Professor David Wu has received a $1.75 million grant to investigate a way to turn waste biomass, such as grass clippings, cornstalks, and wood chips, into usable hydrogen or ethanol.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued the grant to Wu, a professor of chemical engineering, because he is one of the foremost scientists working to derive ethanol ... Read more 13.11.2008.
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