Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Alumni News
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 a UMBC press release and 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»
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