Alumni News Archives
Deborah Sweet (B.S. '06), who is currently pursuing a doctorate in U-Md.'s Fischell Department of Bioengineering. was named the 2009 Fischell Fellow. More»
Kimberly Brown (Ph.D. '05) was both recently named a member of our department's External Advisory Board and featured in a Catonsville Times story about the ACTiVATE (Achieving the Commercialization of Technology in Ventures through Applied Training for Entrepreneurs) program at the bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park. ACTiVATE trains women with significant technical or business experience to create technology-based start-up companies in Maryland. Brown and her company, Amethyst Technologies, have taken part in the ACTiVATE program. More»
Hyuncheol Kim (M.S. '01, Ph.D. '04) was recently appointed to the faculty of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Sogang University in Korea.
Laura Beasman (B.S. '07) is currently an IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology. She also recently received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the oldest and one of the most competitive of its kind. Beasman is taking part in research that may lead to more effective treatment or cures for blood vessel disorders by growing stem cells on specialized surfaces that will direct them to become blood vessels. More»
Anh N. Duong (B.S. '82) and Dr. Chan Mo Park (M.S. '64, Ph.D. '69) have been named the recipients of the 2009 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award and International Alumnus Award, respectively, by the University of Maryland Alumni Association. The awards were be presented at the 10th Annual Alumni Association Awards Gala this April. More»
Jermey N.A. Matthews (Ph.D. '05) held a postdoctoral position at Howard University in Washington, D.C. from 2005-2007 before returning to campus as an Associate Editor at Physics Today, the magazine for American Institute of Physics member societies. He is the publication's principal industry reporter.
Daniel Singer (B.S. '06) and Emily Romei (B.A. '06 and M.A. '08, speech-language pathology) have announced their engagement and are planning a July 2009 wedding. Singer is a simulation engineer at Telvent, Inc. and Romei is speech-language pathologist for Montgomery County (Md.) Public Schools.
Deborah Sweet (B.S. '06) and Hirsh Goldberg (B.S. '05 and M.S. '07, electrical engineering) have announced their engagement and are planning an August 2009 wedding. Sweet is currently pursuing a doctorate in U-Md.'s Fischell Department of Bioengineering. Goldberg is an engineer for Northrop Grumman.
Rich Clements (B.S. '81) has been promoted to Vice President and General Manager of Paratherm Corporation, a company that provides consulting, products, and analysis for thermal fluid systems and heat transfer fluids for the food and plastics industries. Previously, he served as Paratherm's Sales Manager. He has recently launched a new program called "Immersion Engineering," that helps customers strengthen their maintenance programs and solve their heat transfer system emergencies. More»
Gordon B. Richman (B.S. '84) has been named Vice President of Regulatory Affairs for Masimo Corporation in Irvine, California.
Bonnie Ramey (neé Bryan, B.S. '90) has worked for E. I. DuPont de DeNemours and Co. in its Spruance Plant in Richmond, Virginia, since her graduation, and has along the way earned the corporation's Engineering Excellence Award for multivariable control technology implemented in the Nomex® paper process.
Thomas D. Murphy (B.S. '57) has received the Frank W. Reinhart Award from the ASTM International Committee on Standards. He was honored for his leadership and service in terminology standardization. More»
Brigitte Le (B.S. '84) was the recently the subject of a Washington Post story about her contemporary Vietnamese art gallery, Galerie Brigitte, and the flying pig statues she has created to celebrate the inauguration of President Barak Obama. Le, who minored in art while at the University of Maryland, opened her gallery in 2002 after working 13 years as a systems engineer for IBM. She originally produced flying pig statues in 2007, partly in honor of the Year of the Pig and partly as a symbol of achieving anything presumed to be impossible. Le has been customizing the statues to suit a variety of tastes and accomplishments, and most recently decided to produce pigs with a "Yes We Can!" theme to celebrate the election of the nation's first African-American president. The pigs can be ordered at when-pigsfly.com. More»
Larry Friedman (B.S. '80), logistics manager of the U.S. Army's Non-Stockpile Chemical Materials Project, completed an almost 1,600 mile, 23-day solo bike trek from southern Florida to Maryland in the summer of 2008. "Physically, I now know my body can handle the day after day demands of putting in the miles," he told U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency reporter Sarah West in the January 2009 issue of APG News. "Spiritually, it was a rewarding experience to be able to move such great distances under my own power and take in the sights and experiences." Read the APG News story (PDF) »
Tekin Kunt (Ph.D. '97) has been promoted to director of research and development for software company Aspen Technology Inc. in Houston, Texas.
David R. Sadowski (B.S. '75, M.S. '77) has been appointed the assistant vice president for intellectual property management and commercialization at the University of Rhode Island. Sadowski comes to the position from the National Institutes of Health, where he served as the deputy director of technology development and transfer. More»
R. Joseph Bender (B.S. '06) recently announced his engagement to Linda Brown (B.A. '07, government and politics). The wedding is scheduled for August 2009. Bender, who works as a bioprocess engineer at Human Genome Sciences in Rockville, Md., is currently pursuing an M.S. in biotechnology at Johns Hopkins University, and plans to continue on to a Ph.D. in bioengineering.
Pinar Akcora (Ph.D. '05) has been appointed to a tenure-track faculty position with the University of Missouri. She will be an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering.
Bill Clayton (B.S. '37), 85, passed away on October 4, 2008. Although a chemical engineer by education who initially worked for DuPont, he founded his own advertising agency by 1945. A personal passion for boxing led him to amass not only one of the world's largest collections of vintage fight films, but to eventually start a new career as a professional boxing manager. Among his clients was an up-and-coming Mike Tyson, who he co-managed with Jim Jacobs.
Shih-Huang Tung (Ph.D. '07) has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Polymer Science and Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU), the most prestigious university in Taiwan. More»
Derryl York (B.S. '67 and Ph.D. '70) recently donated $1000 to the David Arthur Berman Memorial Award fund. York himself won the award in 1966. Since retiring from a 30-year career with Amoco in 1999, he has has been involved in volunteer activities including substitute teaching at his local high school. He also enjoys cycling, golfing, and traveling with his wife Martha. More»
John C. March (Ph.D. '05), an assistant professor in Cornell University's Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, has been awarded a Hartwell Foundation grant to support his current research. As a Hartwell Investigator, he will receive $100,000 a year for three years to further his work. More »
Claudio Filippone (Ph.D. '96, nuclear engineering) has been named the Senior Director of Nuclear Technology Analysis for Virginia-based Thorium Power, Ltd., a company that develops non-proliferative nuclear fuel technology and provides comprehensive advisory services for emerging nuclear programs. More »
Arthur Russell Taylor Denues (Ph.D. '39), 93, died June 23 in Raleigh, NC. In addition to being a chemical engineer, Denues was a gas engineer, a musician who played keyboards and sang tenor, an Episcopal priest, and a soldier—he served in the Army, where he held the rank of lieutenant colonel and was awarded the Legion of Merit in 1946. His long career included a tenure as the vice president of the Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, research at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lamberene, Gabon, West Africa, and his founding and presidency the Cancer International Research Cooperative.
Jingtao Wang (Ph.D. '06) has been appointed to an associate professorship in the School of Chemical Engineering at Tianjin University, China. More »
Chris Konkol (M.S. '80) has joined Cantor Colburn, an intellectual property law firm ranked nationally in the top 5% of patent practices, as counsel. Prior to joining the firm, Konkol was a senior counsel at Kodak, DuPont and Bausch & Lomb. He specializes in chemical and chemical engineering technologies, and has also worked with the pharmaceutical and health care industries. He is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Ronald G. Forsythe, Jr. (M.S. '92 and Ph.D. '95) has been named a new member of BB&T's (Branch Banking and Trust Company's) Salsbury, Md.-area advisory board. Forsythe is vice president of technology and commercialization at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
Kimberly Brown (M.S. '98 and Ph.D. '05), has moved her company, Amethyst Technologies, into bwtech@UMBC, a technology incubator community at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Amethyst specializes in management, implementation, and execution of current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) compliance systems services for life science companies and research organizations. Brown's growth of the company and as a businesswoman was recently profiled in an article in the Maryland Gazette.
Naveen Bhat (Ph.D. '91) has been appointed the new vice president of Asia-Pacific sales for Ixia, a global provider of performance test systems for IP-based voice, video, data and network services. More»
Matthew Wook Chang (Ph.D. '03) is now an Assistant Professor at the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include systems and synthetic biology, bioinformatics, metabolic engineering and microbial functional genomics. More»
Brenda Cornish-Freeman (B.S. '87) has been named to the newly created position of chief marketing officer for Turner Animation, Young Adults & Kids Media, part of the Turner Broadcasting System. She will provide overall vision and leadership to all areas of marketing, on-air and trade creative services that support the cable television networks Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and Boomerang, along with their on-line businesses, and the digital enterprises GameTap and Super Deluxe. More»
Matthew DeLisa (Ph.D. '00), Ryan Gill (Ph.D. '99), and Andy Hu (Ph.D. '99) have all earned faculty positions at major universities as well as recent international awards for their achievements. More»
Alan Rosenberg (B.S. '83) has been hired by Business Only Broadband (BOB), a carrier-class wireless provider for the financial sector and other large enterprise clients. He will serve as the company's president as it expands into the New York City market. He was selected for the position for his extensive experience in start-up, global sales, and developing financial extranets for Fortune 1000 companies including those in the brokerage, healthcare, pharmaceutical, market data, and manufacturing sectors. More»
Anh Duong (B.S. '82) was featured in Newsweek magazine's column The Last Word, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author George F. Will. The column, titled "Anh Duong, Out Of Debt" describes her desire to give back to her adopted country by helping to fight the War on Terror. More»
Rich Clements (B.S. '81) is the new Sales Manager of Paratherm, a company that provides consulting, products, and analysis for thermal fluid systems and heat transfer fluids for the food and plastics industries. According to a recent press release, Paratherm chose Clements for his "over twenty years of executive level sales management experience, much of it with a Fortune 500 company in industrial (chemical related) sales", as well as his prior experience as a product director, plant manager, and plant engineer. More»
Bennett Wise (B.S. '97) has been appointed to the position of Manager of South East Operations at JM Hyde Consulting, Inc. The Boulder, Co. company provides engineering, compliance and validation services to biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Wise specializes in biotechnology process engineering, GMP facility design, and project management; and is known for implementing cost- and time-saving solutions that still maintain a high level of compliance.
James P. Byers (B.S. '84) died September 27, 2007 at the age of 46 in Toledo, Ohio. Byers was an associate professor of pharmacology at the University of Toledo, where he had been on the faculty for eight years. He was known for his work in pharmacokinetics, the study of how the body absorbs, distributes, metabolizes, and excretes drugs; and also his research on diabetes and gene therapy. Byers was considered a demanding but exceptional teacher by his colleagues and students. More»
Chan Mo Park, M.S. '64, Ph.D. '69, President of POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) in Korea, recalled his experience at Maryland with The Korea Herald: "I couldn't resist falling madly in love with the computer. I spent every night working and sleeping in front of the computer in the school's computer lab." He went on to tell the Herald that he was "married twice—first with his IBM 1620 computer in 1961 and then with his wife in 1963."
Hsu-Wei Fang, M.S. '96, Ph.D. '03, has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan.
Former adjunct professor William N. Died, 60, died March 25, 2007. Died was a microbiologist and blood specialist remembered for his commitment to improving blood safety, treating blood-related disorders, investigation of mad cow disease, and development of novel bandages to stem hemorrhage. He held positions with the National Cancer Institute, the American Red Cross, STB Ltd., Inspiration Biopharmaceuticals Inc., and Clearant Inc. He was also a Professor in the Graduate Program of the Department of Genetics at George Washington University.
Alumnus Joins Board of Dallas Design Firm
Harold "Hal" Brierley '65, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of Reese Associates, Inc. More»
In Memoriam: Dr. Dick Duffy
Alumnus and former professor established nuclear engineering program. More»
Sungs Establish Two ChBE Professorships
$1.5 million gift aids Great Expectations campaign. More»
Wang, Alumnus Publish Work on Enzyme-Immobilization
Enhanced process could improve biotransformation reactions. More»
Alumnus Publishes Work On Artificial Organs
Chong W. Yung demonstrates new genetic engineering techniques to improve implantable medical devices. More»
Department Mourns Passing of Alumna
Alice Gillette Forman, 30, process engineer. More»
Jung Hyeun Kim (Ph.D. '03) is now an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Seoul.
