Venkat Venkatasubramanian receives the 2009 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, given by the Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division of AIChE.

Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, honored with Platinum Award by Mumbai University Institute of Chemical Technology.

Michael Harris, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

Prof. Alden Emery, a beloved faculty member for generations of students, passed away.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced on April 27 its plans to fund two large Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) involving ChE faculty: Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio) at $20M, and Institute for Atom-Efficient Chemical Transformations (IACT) at $19M.