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    ChBE Alumni Honored at Annual IIT Alumni Awards

    ChBE is pleased to announce that six of its most prominent alumni were honored at this year's Annual IIT Alumni Awards, hosted Friday, May 2 at the university's main campus.  The department congratulates the below alumni for their outstanding contributions to the university and the chemical engineering industry, and extends its greatest appreciation for their role as an ambassador of IIT:

        IIT Alumni Service Award

            - Hamid Arastoopour (GE M.S. '75, Ph.D. '78)

            - Morton Nemiroff (ChE '50)

        IIT Lifetime Achievement Award

            - James Y. Oldshue (ChE '47, M.S. '49, Ph.D. '51)

        IIT Outstanding Young Alumnus/a Award

            - Kevin C. Furman (ChE '97)

            - Mariam A. Kittaneh (ChE '03)

        IIT Professional Achievement Award

            - Hans C. Maru (ChE M.S. '70, Ph.D. '75)

    Do you have an interesting alumni story you'd like to share with ChBE?  Let us know!

    ChBE Dedicates Oldshue Lab

     The IIT Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering was pleased to celebrate the dedication of the Oldshue Unit Operations Laboratory on Friday, May 2. The renovations of the lab, which is named in the memory of the late James Y. Oldshue (ChE '47, M.S. ChE '49, Ph.D. ChE '51), were made possible through the generosity of Oldshue, John Sachs (ChE '47) and other ChBE alumni. Members of Dr. Oldshue's family, as well as members of the university community were on hand for the occasion.
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    Professor Jai Prakash's Research Highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News

     Professor Jai Prakash's research on titanate-based systems in batteries was highlighted in the December 2007 issue of Chemical & Engineering News. The article also featured a photo of Ph.D. candidate Shabab Amiruddin and postdoc Humberto Joachin researching in Professor Prakash's lab.
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    ChBE Hosts First Graduate Student Poster Competition

     The newly formed Chemical and Biological Engineering Graduate Student Association (ChBE GSA) hosted its inaugural Poster Competition on Monday, March 31. The event provided ChBE students the opportunity to present their current research projects before a panel of judges.
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    ChBE Student Receives Fieldhouse Research Fellowship

     ChBE congratulates Jing Huang, Ph.D. candidate working with Professor Dimitri Gidaspow, on receiving a Fieldhouse Research Fellowship for 2008. The fellowship is in memory of Mr. Irv Fieldhouse, a member of the IIT/IITRI community for more than 40 years. The annual award targets research that leads to cooperation between IIT and IITRI, the National Center for Food Safety and Technology, Fermilab or Argonne National Laboratories. To be considered for the fellowship, students must be nominated by a faculty member.