Vorbeck Materials, a startup company founded by John S. Lettow '95 is featured in a recent issue of Technology Review published by MIT.

John Lettow, ChE '95, president and co-founder of Vorbeck Materials in Maryland, uses the research of ChE Profs. Ilhan Aksay and Robert Prud'homme to produce commercial quantities of graphene for use in composite materials, electronics, and energy storage devices, among many other potential applications.

Kelvin H. Lee '91, Gore Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware and Director of the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, has been received the first Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator Award.

Max Shtein *04 Ph.D. in chemical engineering is a recipient of the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent scientific research careers.

Officials from President-Elect Barack Obama's transition team have announced that his choice for the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is Lisa Perez Jackson, who earned an M.S.E. from Princeton's Department of Chemical Engineering in 1986.