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MESD Newsletter 2011Cover Page Draft American Institute of Chemical Engineers Materials Engineering and Sciences Division Newsletter Volume 42 Issue 1 http://mesd.aiche.org August 2011 INSIDE this issue Notes from the Chair 1 Notes From the Chair 2 Upcoming Meetings and Deadlines Dear MESD Members and Friends, 3 Election Biographies It’s been an exciting year in MESD! Spearheaded 4 Election Instructions 5 MESD Officers by past chair, Don Baird, and with generous support from Owens Corning, MESD has instituted a young Technology, Efrosini Kokkoli of the University of investigator award. The Owens Corning Early Career Minnesota, and Ian Suni of Clarkson University. Award recognizes “the outstanding independent There are also two Division Director positions open – contributions to the scientific, technological, those being vacated by Thomas Kuech of the University of educational, or service areas of materials science and Wisconsin – Madison and Holly Stretz of Tennessee Tech engineering” of a division member who is under 40 University. We have three candidates for these two years of age. I am also pleased to announce the positions: Stacey Bent of Stanford University, Sanat Kumar launching of MESD’s new and improved website of Columbia University, and Gregory Parsons of North (thanks, Pete!!) at http://mesd.aiche.org. Do check Carolina State University. Directors serve for two years. back frequently for up-to-date information about the Doug Kalika of the University of Kentucky will continue division! We are also joined by Scott Berger, of his reliable service as Secretary-Treasurer, and is running Center for Chemical Process Safety at the AIChE, as unopposed for this position. I am very grateful that all these our liaison to the organization. individuals have indicated a willingness to serve. Given that This year, the Charles M.A. Stine Award is the annual meeting is early this year, we have, accordingly, presented to Prof. Juan de Pablo of the University of moved up the election deadline. Voting will commence Wisconsin – Madison for his “pioneering between August 22 and September 1, 2011. contributions to the development of powerful This year’s annual meeting promises an exciting and computational tools and their integration with vibrant program, thanks to program chair, Stevin Gehrke. experiment to achieve fundamental and technological There will be 102 sessions at the annual meeting that are breakthroughs in materials research and engineering”. affiliated with MESD, of which 80 are primary-sponsored. The 2012 inaugural Owen Corning Early Career Highlights include an all-invited talk session sponsored by Award is presented to Prof. Di Gao of the University Area 8A on “Emerging Areas in Polymer Science and of Pittsburgh for “his outstanding creativity in the area Engineering” as well as honorary sessions sponsored by of nano-materials design and development”. Profs. de Area 8B to celebrate Matthew Tirrell’s 60th birthday. The Pablo and Gao will be delivering their award lectures MESD poster session is scheduled for Wednesday evening. during the MESD plenary session to be held on Finally, I would like to thank the executive committee for October 19, 2011 (Wednesday) at the annual meeting. their hard work. I have really enjoyed working with you, We are very grateful to DuPont and to Owens Corning and am now turning the reins over to Stevin Gehrke, who for financially supporting the Stine and Owens will be our new Chair come November. I look forward to Corning Award, respectively. seeing everyone in Minneapolis! It is also election season again, and MESD has nd several important positions to fill. One is for 2 Lynn Loo Vice-Chair. The individual who is elected will Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering coordinate Division programming for the Annual Princeton University Meeting in Fall, 2013, and will eventually succeed [email protected] to chair the division. Cliff Henderson of Georgia Institute of Technology presently serves in this Upcoming Meetings and Deadlines: capacity. This year, we have three candidates for 2nd AIChE Annual meeting: Oct 16-21, Minneapolis, MN. Vice-Chair: Dean Delongchamp of the Polymer Stine Award nominations: due Feb. 15, 2012 Division of the National Institute of Standards and Owens Corning Award nominations: due Feb. 15, 2012 2 MESD –September 2011 The ELECTION SLATE: FALL 2011 Candidates for Position of Second Vice-Chair (vote for one): (i) DeLongchamp (ii) Kokkoli (iii) Suni Dean M. DeLongchamp is the return some emphasis to the unique contributions that Project Leader for Organic chemical engineering training and perspective can bring to Electronics and Photovoltaics in the the design and processing of materials, incorporating Polymers Division of the National broader themes through interactions with other professional Institute of Standards and societies. Dean hopes to provide opportunities for young Technology. Dean received his B.S. faculty to define the role of chemical engineering in in Chemical Engineering from the emerging MESD topics such as nanomaterial Georgia Institute of Technology, his manufacturing, biologically-derived and renewable Master of Science in Chemical materials, and materials by design. Engineering Practice degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Efrosini (Efie) Kokkoli is an Engineering from MIT in 2003. He then received a Associate Professor in the National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship to work Department of Chemical in the NIST Polymers Division, where he established a Engineering and Materials program in Organic Electronics that he currently leads. Science at the University of Dean’s current research involves the development of Minnesota and currently holds the processing-structure-property correlations for polymer- Shell chair. She received her based semiconductor materials and devices, with a focus on Diploma in Chemical Engineering the development of measurement methods for nanoscale from the Aristotle University of structure and chemical functionality. The tools used by his Thessaloniki in Greece and her team include absorption spectroscopies in the infrared, Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering visible, and soft X-ray range, X-ray and neutron reflectivity from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with and scattering, and scanning probe and electron Chip Zukoski. She completed her postdoctoral work with microscopies. A current research thrust is determining the Matt Tirrell at the University of Minnesota, and the role of nanoscale morphology in the performance and University of California, Santa Barbara. Efie joined the stability of bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells. Dean faculty at the University of Minnesota in 2003. has received awards including the Presidential Early Career Her current research interests include biomimetic Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2009, materials and biopolymers with applications in targeted NIST Slichter and Bronze medal awards, and several drug delivery and tissue engineering. She has received the Sigma Xi awards. 3M Nontenured Faculty Award (2006), the McKnight At NIST Dean has continued to contribute to the Land-Grant Professorship Award (2006), the Camille materials and chemical engineering communities. He has Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award (2007), the Institute of helped develop the next generation by advising over 20 Technology Best Professor in Chemical Engineering & young scientists including postdoctoral associates, graduate Materials Science Award (2008), and the NSF CAREER students, and undergraduate interns with chemistry, Award (2009). She has also been invited to attend the materials, and chemical engineering backgrounds. He has National Academy of Engineers U.S. Frontiers of been active in the professional societies, organizing Engineering Symposium as a participant (2007), organizer sessions at MRS (Large Area Flexible Electronics, 2008), (2008), and speaker (2010). ACS (Organic Photovoltaics, 2009), APS (Polymers for Efie has published in many materials science Energy, 2011), and numerous smaller workshops and journals including Science, Nature Materials, Angewandte symposia (e.g., General Chair of the OSA/ACS Organic Chemie International Edition, Biomacromolecules, Soft Thin Films Symposium, 2007). His work has included Matter and Langmuir. She also serves on the editorial board extensive industry contributions; he established of Langmuir. She has been active with the AIChE since relationships with large companies such as Merck 2000 and has chaired numerous materials oriented sessions Chemicals, Corning, Air Products, IBM, and Intel, as well in Areas 8b, 15d/e and 22b. Efie was the Area Chair of as smaller startups such as Konarka, Plextronics, and Bionanotechnology - Area 22b (2006-2010) and the Group Polyera. As second vice chair of MESD, Dean hopes to Chair of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum - Area 3 MESD –September 2011 22 (2008-2009). She has also been a member of ACS, AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis. As Director of BMES, Biophysical Society, and MRS. MESD, I would strive to maintain and improve the high As Second Vice-Chair Efie’s goals are to create intellectual quality of our sessions, and our publications. resources through a MESD web page that can enhance the One of my primary goals as Director of MESD would be professional development of our members, especially at the increase the membership, particularly among young PhD early stages of their careers, to promote and expand graduates in academia, industry, and national laboratories. prestigious
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