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Jan ‘06
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Research wealth for you
rese a r c h CENTERS
tra ining PROGRAMS
Our diverse research is shown through the many dynamic
Research Centers that are part of our Department:
>Integrative Graduate Education & Research
Traineeship (IGERT) provides education across
traditional academic boundaries in life sciences,
physical sciences, engineering, business administration,
and scientific communication.
>The Center for Catalytic Science & Technology
(CCST) has pioneered
multidisciplinary research in
the scientific and engineering
principles of catalysis. Over the
last 3 decades, the Center has
provided research opportunities in
all aspects of catalysis to more than
300 students and postdoctoral fellows in the academic
departments, Chemical Engineering and Chemistry &
Biochemistry, and Materials Science, which it spans.
>The Center for Molecular Engineering &
Thermodynamics (CMET) includes multiple
departments and produces research spanning fields
from computational chemistry to biological separations.
The Center provides state-of-the-art laboratory and
computational facilities and fosters collaborative
research that combines traditional thermodynamics
with cutting edge experimental and theoretical
techniques.
>Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) program involves
faculty from six academic units and allows students
to obtain a Ph.D. degree in either Chemistry and
Biochemistry, in Chemical Engineering or in Biological
Sciences. Research disciplines include: biochemistry,
biochemical engineering, bio-organic chemistry,
molecular biology, cell biology, virology, bio-analytical
chemistry, structural biology, bio-inorganic chemistry,
materials science and plant biochemistry.
>Institute in Multi-scale Modeling of Biological
Interactions (IMMBI) is a DOE-funded program in
computational biology and is collaborative with Johns
Hopkins and Los Alamos National Lab.
teaching FELLOWS
Thomas Epps, from the University of Minnesota and
postdoc at NIST. His work will contribute to polymer
science: synthesis, structure, phase behavior and
applications of block copolymers.
Each year we select 2-4 senior graduate students to
serve as teaching fellows. These are chosen from our
most outstanding students who have what it takes
to become faculty. As teaching fellows, they serve as
co-instructors under the mentorship of an experienced
faculty member. The teaching fellow typically delivers
one third of the lectures, and participates in all of the
other activities of a faculty instructor, from leading
recitations to writing and grading examinations.
This provides outstanding opportunities for our top
students to experience teaching “from the other side of
the desk,”. Over the past decade, many of our teaching
fellows have gone on to faculty positions across the
U.S., and this program has helped to make Delaware
one of the top producers of chemical engineering
faculty. Graduate study is about so much more than
research, and our aim is to develop our students on
many fronts.
Millie Sullivan, doctorate from Carnegie Mellon with
her postdoctoral work at Hope Heart Institute, will study
nanoparticle formulations for gene delivery.
facult y LINE-UP
>The Center of Biomedical Research Excellence
(COBRE) in Structural and Functional Genomics was
established in 2000 around a core group of faculty
in the Departments of Biological Sciences, Chemical
Engineering and Chemistry and Biochemistry. Scientific
goals of the COBRE are to contribute to improving the
structural basis for the fundamental biological link
between genotype and phenotype.
facult y BUZZ
We’re excited about the arrivals of 2 new faculty.
conta c t US
Department of Chemical Engineering
150 Academy Street
Newark, DE 19716
302.831.2543
www.che.udel.edu
Currently, (8) of our faculty are University Named
Professors, (2) are Members
of the National Academy of
Engineering and (11) hold
Presidential/NSF Young
Investigators/CAREER Award
titles.