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海角社区 ChE Professor Receives AAAS Fellows Award
海角社区 Cain Department of Chemical Engineering Professor Krishnaswamy Nandakumar recently received the American Association for The Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows Award. AAAS Fellows are recognized for their extraordinary achievements across disciplines including research, teaching, technology, services to professional societies, administration in academia, industry and government, and communicating and interpreting science to the public.

Forest鈥檚 Paper on Process Safety Still the Best 10 Years Later
In 2015, 海角社区 Chemical Engineering Adjunct Lecturer Jerry Forest鈥檚 paper on conduct of operations, 鈥淲alk the Line,鈥 was published in peer-reviewed journal Process Safety Progress. That same year, it won Best Paper at the Process Plant Safety Symposium (PPSS) of the Global Congress on Process Safety (GCPS). Both of these honors came on the heels of 鈥淲alk the Line鈥 winning the American Chemistry Council鈥檚 Responsible Care Initiative of the Year honor in 2014.

海角社区 Researchers Create Low-Cost Method to Recycle Plastic
海角社区 researchers have created a new, low-cost way to break down plastic, a potential breakthrough that could save billions of dollars and eliminate billions of tons of plastic pollution.