Chemical Engineering has a new Executive Officer Richard C. Flagan. The new EO takes the helm effective September 1, 2004.

Richard C. Flagan, Irma and Ross McCollum Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, received Technoligiae Doctorem Honoris Causa (an honorary Doctorate of technology) from Lund University on May 28th, 2004.

New and Improved!! No, it's not another low-carb soft drink. The undergraduate lab is being renovated! Demolition started this past June and construction well be finished in November, according to Dr. Michael Vicic.

John H. Seinfeld, Louis E. Nohl Professor and Professor of Chemical Engineering, was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. The fellowship is awarded to scientists who have attained acknowledged eminence in one or more branches of geophysics.

To better coordinate bacteria, bioengineers Lingchong You and Frances Arnold of the California Institute of Technology and colleagues rewired a natural cell-signaling pathway from Vibrio fisheri, bacteria in the light organ of deep-sea squid. More in Science Now magazine, April 5, 2004.

October 28, 2003--Atmospheric scientists still acquire samples the old-fashioned way--by flying up and getting them. Caltech's Nohl Professor and professor of chemical engineering, John Seinfeld, conducts an aircraft program that is a bit more down-to-earth, at least in the literal sense.

November 2003--Associate professor of materials science and chemical engineering Sossina Haile and her colleagues report that they have created a new phosphate-based electrolyte to go inside the fuel cells. The new substance, formally named cesium dihydrogen phosphate is, for a variety of reasons, better than the team's previously favored electrolyte, which was based on a sulfate.

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March 15, 2001--Baxter Awards Caltech Professor $250,000. Glendale-based Baxter Hyland Immuno awarded the unrestricted grant to David Tirrell, the Ross McCollum - William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Tirrell's research addresses the design and synthesis of novel proteins and protein-like materials for applications in biology, biotechnology and medicine.

September 22, 2000--Caltech to Receive $10 Million Grant from BP to Study Methane Conversion. This new grant allows Caltech to take its research to the next level. The new, expanded research team will encompass work by some of the Institute's most respected researchers, Robert Grubbs, Mark Davis, Harry Gray, and Nate Lewis.

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