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Spring 2006News from the

From the Department Head 2AQAD reveals top performance 3Welcome to our new Head 3George Huber set to join faculty 4Roberts leading new ICE Initiative 4MassNanoTech moves into high gear 5Khakhar named Dean at IIT Bombay 5Using ChE tools for drug development 6There’s nano in those hills! 6Alexis Smith makes the cover 7To named a Top Performer 7Bob Gunness remembered 7Covers feature our science 8AIChE and ISPE student chapters 8WEP/MEP honor ChEs 9Student volunteers reach out 9Graduate program update 9Valipa honored for research 9Faculty highlights 10Professor Sherman dies 11Event spotlights departmental honors 12Class of 1995 reunites 13 News from other alumni 14Call for co-ops and summer jobs 19Departmental advisory board 19Chemical Engineering Alumni and Friends: Gifts to the College of Engineering and /or the Department of Chemical Engineering 19

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

College of Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Massachusetts Amherst • 159 Goessmann • 686 N. Pleasant St. • Amherst MA 01003-9303 • www.ecs.umass.edu/che

2 Department of Chemical Engineering

From the Department Head

Dear UMass Amherst ChEs,

Greetings – I’m pleased to join the UMass Amherst ChE fam-ily! The faculty and I are excited about new steps we’re taking

to grow and strengthen the department, sustaining its impressive record of suc-cess. We hope this newsletter will help you understand how you are part of cre-ating our success for the future, just as you have helped create our past success.

As this newsletter goes to press, we are delighted to report that two new col-leagues are joining our work here.

Professor David Ford will join us in the fall, coming from Texas A&M where he has been K.R. Hall Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering. Dave has built a distinguished ca-reer as an educator and as a researcher in areas from statistical mechanics to financial modeling. In 1999, he was selected for a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and this spring he has been chosen to receive the Texas A&M University Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching. Matthew Galman has just joined UMass Amherst as the first Managing Director of the ICE program, the Institute for Cel-lular Engineering about which you can read more on page 4. Matt earned his B.S. in Biochemistry from Rutgers and an M.S. Biochemistry and M.B.A. in Finance and Technical Manage-ment from Colorado. Most recently, he had been a Special As-sistant to the Dean of the School of Education here.

In other late-breaking news, Prof. Neil Forbes has just received another significant two-year grant for $249,000 for research on “Design of Targeted Bacteria to Overcome Multidrug Resis-tance” from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

Also, the poster of junior Dawn Eriksen ’07 won First Place in the March 2006 regional student competitions of both the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE). The poster, titled “Cell-Dependent Lycopene Production in Escherichia coli,” highlighted summer research she conducted with Prof. Lianhong Sun. The research investigated a novel au-tomatic production of the antioxidant lycopene using a quo-rum-sensing system. Quorum sensing is a self-sufficient gene regulatory mechanism that is providing an intense research field. She progresses to the national competitions of each organization this fall.

These are all outward and visible signs of our continued vitality. They help us make a difference to our individual students and in our broader societal goals.

If you have any questions about the department, or if you have news to tell us about or would like us to post on the depart-ment’s website, please send it to me at [email protected], drop me a note by regular mail, or simply call me at (413) 545-2507.

Sincerely,

T. J. “Lakis” MountziarisProfessor and HeadDepartment of Chemical Engineering

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External rankings have placed us in the top 30, but by several key measures already noted, the productivity of this depart-ment has been at a top-10 level in recent years. The reviewers believed that it is very feasible for the department to become

recognized as a top-20 and even top-10 ChE de-partment in the nation.

They thought the biggest chal-lenge to this goal was grow-ing from the

present small faculty size. Among the top-20 departments, the average number of professors of different ranks is 18.9, com-pared to our 12 at the time of the review (now 14). We have hired great new faculty in recent years. Helping them get re-search started requires a significant financial investment, which will need to be raised for the size increase. Of course, we have to retain our present faculty as well, acknowledging that our faculty members are so sought-after by other departments.

Growing out of this review, the leadership of the campus has committed to our growing to 18 faculty members. The campus’s Amherst 250 plan seeks to add 250 new tenure-track faculty to the campus, and we’ll be part of that. Watch us grow and go!

Welcome to our new HeadIn September we welcomed the arrival of Professor Lakis Mountziaris from the University at Buffalo, who became our new Department Head. We have known and respected him for a long time as a leader in electronic materials research in chem-ical engineering. During the previous two years, he had served the National Science Foundation in Washington as its Program Manager for Particulate and Multiphase Processes.

Lakis jumped in right away and began teaching ChE 226, the sophomore thermodynamics course, while he and his students began setting up in the new ELab II building, sharing its large ExxonMobil Process Laboratory with the group of Prof. Phil Westmoreland. Their experiments include synthesis and growth of compound semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots) and nanowires for microelectronics and also for new biosensors. This work also nicely complements the modeling research of Prof. Dimitrios Maroudas, focused on microelectronics processing.

AQAD reveals top performanceIn 2005, a thorough internal and external review of the depart-ment showed that UMass Amherst ChE has performed statisti-cally as one of the Top-15 ChE programs in the nation.

All departments at the university are going through the Aca-demic Quality Assessment and Development process (AQAD) at the request of the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees. The process calls for a departmental self-study report and an external review by a committee of distinguished exam-iners approved by the Provost. Our examiners were Professors Carol K. Hall of North Carolina State University, Thomas F. Edgar of the University of Texas Austin, and Deborah Leckband of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

We compared ourselves to other ChE departments in the U.S. by using categories proposed by Phil Savage of the University of Michigan ChE Educ. (2001). To make it quantitative, both absolute numbers and numbers per tenure-track faculty mem-ber were analyzed. We proved to have ranked in the top 20 in every category, and a simple average of these rankings placed us at number 12.

The examiners praised the department highly, noting specifi-cally its outstanding record of:

• Education – Outstanding undergraduate and graduate alumni, authorships of widely used textbooks, and highly regarded publications in Chemical Engineering Education;

• Research productivity and impact – Highest number of publications per ChE faculty member in the country, third-highest number of citations per ChE faculty member, fourth in papers having more than 50 citations, sixth in Ph.D. graduates per faculty member from 1996 to 2003 (see figure), ninth in total citations, and 12th in Ph.D.s per year; and

• Professional service – Leadership of national and international professional organizations as meeting chairs and officers, contributions to college and campus leadership, and development of multidisciplinary initiatives.

In particular, the External Review Committee strongly com-mended the strength of our undergraduate and graduate programs. They cited the basis as being our hiring and develop-ment of high-quality faculty who are deeply committed, pro-fessionally active, and extraordinarily productive by numerous measures.


George Huber set to join the facultyIn September 2006, Dr. George Huber will join us as a new Assistant Professor, contributing his focus in the new area of “catalytic biorefining.” His expertise comes out of classical het-erogeneous catalysis, which is used extensively in the chemical and petrochemical area. However, his interests center on using catalysis to convert domestic biomass into chemicals and liquid fuels that can be put to use immediately.

In his Ph.D. research with Prof. Jim Dumesic at Wisconsin, George developed two new catalytic processes to convert bio-mass-derived carbohydrates to H

2 and alkanes. The process that

he helped develop to produce H2 from biomass, called aqueous-

phase reforming (APR), is currently being commercialized by Virent Energy Systems (www.virent.com). While nickel-based catalysts produce large amounts of methane from APR of oxy-genated hydrocarbons, he discovered that the addition of tin to nickel decreases the rate of methane production, while still maintaining high rates of H

2 production. A Raney Ni-Sn cata-

lyst was synthesized that exhibited high activity and selectivity for production of H

2 with values comparable to platinum-based

catalysts. The magazine Scien-tific American ranked the dis-covery of this catalyst as one of the top 50 worldwide techno-logical breakthroughs of 2003.

Alkanes ranging from meth-ane to C

6 were produced

from sorbitol (hydrogenated glucose) by aqueous-phase dehydration/hydrogenation

(APD/H), the second process that George developed. APD/H involves a bi-functional pathway where sorbitol is repeatedly dehydrated by a solid (SiO

2-Al2O

3) or a mineral (HCl) acid

catalyst and then hydrogenated on a metal catalyst (Pt or Pd). APD/H has significant energy advantages over ethanol produc-tion because alkanes spontaneously separate from the aqueous feed, and an energy-intensive distillation step to separate etha-nol and water is needed for ethanol production. Biorefining sugars to alkanes plus CO

2 and water is an exothermic process

in which the products retain approximately 95% of the heat-ing value but only 30% of the mass of the reactant. In a paper published in 2005 in Science, George further improved on this process by producing larger liquid alkanes ranging from C

7-C

15,

which could be used as a premium, sulfur-free diesel fuel, by combining the APD/H process with an aldol condensation step.

George finished his Ph.D. this past summer. During 2005-06, he is conducting a year of postdoctoral research in Spain with Prof. Avelino Corma Canós at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. A native of Santa Rosa, Calif., he earned his B.S. and M.S. at Brigham Young University. George and his wife Leslie have three children: Rachel, 5, Taylor, 3, and Sarah Ann, born May 2005.

Roberts leading new ICE initiativeProfessor Susan Roberts is leading a new campus-wide initiative, the Institute for Cellular Engineering or ICE. Last summer, it won a Science and Technology Initiative award from the UMass President’s Office to fund its creation and initial activities.

ICE couples the campus’s historical strength in biological sci-ences with its newer expertise in cellular bioprocesses and materials. Accordingly, its mission is to coordinate research ac-tivities in cell engineering leading to key scientific discoveries, to educate a well-trained workforce, and to establish key indus-trial connections to commercialize innovative technology.

The initiative first grew out of widespread interest in using stem cells for medical applications. Stem cells are primitive cells that differentiate to make the various cell types in the body, so they have been the target of much attention for growing new organs. There has been much controversy over approaches that use fetal stem cells. By contrast, adult stem cells are already widely used in autologous bone-marrow transplants, removed from the patient and grown in number for re-injection.

The first target at UMass Amherst has been a third approach, taking normal cells from the body and reprogramming them to revert to stem cells. The development strategy has three parts. In the first, cell biologists in Veterinary and Animal Sciences will carry out reprogramming cells to make gamma globulin or other bioproducts. Second, the groups of Profs. Sue Roberts and Surita Bhatia will encapsulate the cells in a polymer matrix, allowing the 3-D development of cells. Finally, the stem-cell/polymer materials will be implanted in sheep to grow in a nat-ural environment, leaving the sheep unharmed while producing human antibodies, hormones, and other products that will be separated from the blood and purified.

The activities have since broadened to include three additional thrust areas: applied systems biology and metabolic engineering, cell and drug delivery, and protein engineering. Our depart-ment’s strengths in these areas, plus in polymers and process en-gineering, will contribute greatly to ICE.


Three initial activities have been:

• Organizing infrastructure to identify and coordinate the range of activities on campus: setting up an Advisory Board, hiring a managing director, hiring new faculty, and working with the legislature in its plans to support this effort.

• Organizing a First Annual Conference on Cellular Engineering, to be held at UMass Amherst on May 10, 2006. It will feature work by our faculty and industry in stem-cell and tissue engineering, protein engineering, applied systems biology, and metabolic engineering.

• Preparing formal proposals to NIH and NSF for a Summer Institute in Cellular Engineering to include undergraduate and graduate students and for an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program.

Modern life science and engineering depends heavily on the sort of applied chemistry and analysis of complex systems at which chemical engineers excel. We’re pleased to be leading this campus-wide effort.

MassNanoTech moves into high gearMassNanoTech (www.umass.edu/massnanotech), UMass Am-herst’s center for nanotechnology, won its first major grant this year, an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Train-ing (IGERT) award from the National Science Foundation for Nanotechnology Innovation. The IGERT will enable science and engineering graduate students to earn a Ph.D. with an em-phasis in nanotechnology, receiving practical experience in de-veloping new technologies for possible commercial applications.

Jim Watkins, co-director of the program, Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering, explained that the grant is part of a larger effort at UMass Amherst to link fundamental nanoscience advances to commercial applications with economic and societal benefit. There are already strong campus-wide research efforts involv-ing over 40 nanotechnology researchers, a growing network of industrial relationships, and outstanding laboratory facilities for nanoscience.

Five students were selected to be the initial IGERT Fellows, including third-year graduate student Bing Mei from Chemical Engineering. Bing’s adviser is Prof. Maria Santore of Polymer Science and Engineering, who is also an Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering.

As a first demonstration of the impact the IGERT activities can have, Bing led the winning team in the UMass Amherst Entre-club’s Annual “Elevator Pitch Competition,” which took place on November 2.

The point of the competition was to convey a business idea in a short time (i.e., in an elevator ride) to capture enough interest to get another meeting. Teams were given 90 seconds to make the pitch, and then the three semifinalist team leaders were questioned for 10 to 15 minutes about their ideas by the panel of judges. The winner was determined by presentation quality and fundability of the concept.

Bing’s team pitched the idea of a medical diagnostics company, NanoSense, to build a biosensor for early detection of breast cancer. The idea comes from a collaboration made possible by the MassNanotech IGERT program.

By having the winning idea of the competition, the team also won $500 in prize money and a spot in the Regional Elevator Pitch Competition at the Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foun-dation’s annual banquet in April 2006, which they now have won, too.

Bing’s teammates were Lindsay Devin, Samir Podder, and Sea-mus Gahan from the Isenberg School of Management, Brian Jordan from Chemistry, and Curran Chandler from Polymer Science and Engineering.

Khakhar named Dean at IIT BombayDevang Khakhar Ph.D. ’86 was named Dean of the Faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in July 2005. He had been Head of Department in Chemical Engineering.

Devang has been widely recognized as an educator and re-searcher. In addition to the Institute’s Excellence in Teaching

Award, he has received the Dyechem Award and the Herdillia Award of the Indian Insti-tute of Chemical Engineers, the Bhatnagar Prize for Engineering Sciences from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Re-search, the Millennium Gold Medal of the Indian Science Congress, and the Materials Research Society of India’s MRSI Medal.

He is also a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and of the Indian National Academy of Engineering for his work in polymer and granular flows. He visited UMass Amherst last spring and gave a seminar on his recent research titled “Free Surface Granular Flows.”


He and his wife Natasha have two children, Arjun, 14, and Adi-ti, 9. Natasha is currently a manager at HSBC Bank.

Using ChE tools for drug developmentPeter Ryan Ph.D. ’89 of Bayer Technology Services (BTS) was the featured speaker for the April 2005 meeting of the Bio/Medical Technology Club of Houston (BMTC), discussing “Improving Data Analysis in Research and Development for New Drug Development.” The BMTC is a business-promotion organization made up of company and academic leaders from southeast Texas.

Peter argued that design of experiment (DOE) analysis, cou-pled with data-mining technologies and pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic simulation results, can significantly improve the analysis of experimental results from the different phases of drug development. A significant portion of drug development costs involves initial screening of the “new chemical entity” (NCE) and the clinical trials of the “investigational new drug” (IND) for the Food and Drug Administration. A 2003 Tufts University study on drug development estimated that the fully capitalized cost to develop a new drug is $897 million. The es-timate also includes post-regulatory-approval studies to assess long-term safety and efficacy of the drug in a broader patient population or specific patient subgroups.

Analysis such as he described can be used to design better fol-low-up screening and clinical trials. Optimized screening and clinical-trial results translate immediately to shorter drug-de-velopment phases and eventually to improved process valida-tion once the drug is commercialized. For the drug developer, the major advantage is faster time to market. Total return for a shortened drug-development phase and enhanced process vali-dation effort can be very significant. Tools, methodology, and consultant services offered by BTS to the pharmaceutical and biotech communities were discussed.

Peter went to work for Bayer immediately after graduating from UMass Amherst in 1989, starting in project engineering and then moving to process technology with Bayer Technol-ogy Services. The focus at BTS is process optimization using a Six-Sigma approach to minimize the variance and enhance the controllability of batch and continuous processes, including energy management. The BTS process technology group has developed a methodology and a tool set to extract useful in-formation from historical data to achieve targeted optimization goals. Peter is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas. He and his wife Cecilia have four children, two girls and two boys aged 3 to 10.

There’s nano in those hills!Aaron Wagner ’94 is now Director of Research and Develop-ment of NaturalNano, Inc., a nanotechnology company based in Rochester, N.Y., whose primary business is developing ways of refining and using a clay, halloysite, that is thought to have the largest naturally occurring content of nanotubes.

Halloysite is uniformly a very fine-grained clay, long noted for its value in making fine ceramics like bone china. The two largest commercial sites of high-purity halloysite are mines in northern New Zealand and in Utah.

Electron microscopy has shown that this material contains sig-nificant amounts of aluminosilicate nanotubes with typical diameters of 30 nm and lengths from 100 nm to 1.3 microns. NaturalNano’s first contract was to extract and purify 500 tons of these nanotubes from Atlas Mining Company’s Dragon Mine in Juab County, Utah.

Aaron and others have identified more than 200 commercial applications, ranging from additives in polymers and plastics to

electronic components, cosmetics, and absorbents, slow-release carriers, filters, inkjets, and even as a paint ingredient to deter barnacles.

In his role as Director of Research and Development, Aaron leads separation and classification process development, qual-ity assurance and control, and intellectual

property development for NaturalNano products. In parallel, he is developing end-use solutions based upon specific market demands.

To do these tasks, he brings extensive background in materi-als science, material characterization, and pilot plant opera-tions. Aaron earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Houston, studying solid-state reaction kinetics of various complex oxide materials, and later an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester. He was previously a Senior Research Engineer at Süd Chemie, Inc. in Louisville, Kentucky, working on generation and purification of hydrogen from hydrocarbon fuels for use in Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells.


Alexis Smith makes the coverAlexis Smith ’05 was featured on the cover of the spring 2005 UMass Amherst alumni magazine as a representative of “The Power Generation.” Coming from Springfield, Mass., she worked through both the regular curriculum and three years of internships with UTC Power, the fuel-cell component of Unit-ed Technologies Corporation. Her first task as an intern was

to create a vital computer program that monitors the power plant of an electric-automobile prototype and shuts it down if it overheats. The next summer she saw her program installed in the overall monitoring system of the car and tested under simu-lated conditions. She said, “It was one of those great joys—like seeing your baby grow up.”

After graduation, she headed off to be an engineer with Praxair in Tonawanda, N.Y. Long-term, she envisions adding studies in law and becoming actively involved in politics.

To named a Top PerformerCongratulations to Tszleung To ’05, who was selected by the technical newspaper Mass High Tech (www.masshightech.com) as one of New England’s top 10 performers for its 2005 “Best in Class” Special Report. He gave special credit to Profs. Susan Roberts, Peter Monson, and Mike Henson for stimulat-ing his interest. Notably, for the second straight year, a UMass Amherst chemical engineer was selected.

Bob Gunness rememberedWe note with regret the passing of Bob Gunness, one of the first chemical engineers from UMass Amherst. He graduated in 1932 – almost 20 years before the ChE department started!

We recently learned that Bob had died on January 28, 2004, at his home in Fullerton, Calif. He was 92 years old. Born in Fargo, North Dakota, Bob moved to Amherst when his father Christian joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, now the University of Massachusetts Amherst. (In 1917, Christian Gunness was the first instructor of agricultural engi-neering and was named head of the Division of Engineering in 1937. Gunness Laboratory on campus is named after him.)

Bob’s 1932 degree here was in chemistry, but with his interest in applied chemistry, he proceeded to study chemical engineer-ing formally at MIT. He earned his SM in 1934 and the ScD in 1936, and then joined the MIT ChE faculty as an assistant professor.

In 1938, he returned to the Midwest to join the research de-partment of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana (Amoco), where he spent 37 years and rose to be its president. A special-ist in distillation and heat transfer, he was prominent in process development and design for petroleum refining. In 1951, Dr. Gunness took a leave of absence from Standard Oil to serve as vice-chairman of the Research and Development Board at the Department of Defense in Washington, D.C. He returned to Standard Oil the following year to become a director of the company and served in that capacity until his 1975 retirement.

In memory of his father, Bob and his wife Beverly gave funds for creating a student center for the College of Engineering. Built as an addition to Marcus Hall, it opened in 1992 as the Gunness Student Center, thus honoring the entire family. It has been a wonderful addition to the life of the College, and we are all grateful for it.


Covers feature our scienceThree pieces of work by our faculty and students were featured on journal covers this past year.

The cover of the June 23, 2005, issue of Science featured discov-ery of enols as a new class of combustion-generated pollutants (Vol. 308, pp. 1887-1889) by Prof. Phil Westmoreland, graduate student Matt Law, and their collaborators from Cornell Univer-sity, Sandia National Laboratories, Universität Bielefeld, and the National Synchrotron Re-search Laboratories (Hefei, China). A flame is shown burning inside their new instrument built at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley Na-tional Laboratory. Enols such as vinyl alcohol were known but had never before been detected in flames because of interfer-ence from their isomers, such as acetaldehyde. The key is that high intensity of light available at the ALS, five orders of magnitude brighter than the sun, allows its resolution into extraordinarily precise photon energies for pho-toionization mass spectrometry.

Langmuir highlighted work from Prof. Curt Conner’s group on the cover of its September 13, 2005 issue, an article from the previous issue titled “Hysteresis and Scanning Behavior of Mes-oporous Molecular Sieves” (Vol. 21, No. 18, pp. 8214 –8225, September 6). Ad-sorption isotherms can be measured by stepwise equilibration at constant temperature as the partial pressure of adsorbing gas is increased and decreased between zero and its va-por pressure. As shown on the cover, a full cycle of adsorption and desorp-tion can give different curves, and several mod-els purport to model this

hysteresis. Curt’s group performed experiments in which the step direction was reversed while the adsorption or desorption curve was still on the diverged part of the curves, not allowing partial pressure to go fully to zero or the vapor pressure. A vari-ety of trajectories occurred, providing a new, discriminating test of the various models. Curt’s co-authors were post-doc Geoff Tompsett and seniors Lauren Krogh and Derek Griffin (now at UC San-ta Barbara).

In addition, the October 14, 2005 inside cover of Soft Matter featured work by Prof. Surita Bhatia and Sarvesh Agrawal of Chemical Engineering and Prof. Greg Tew and Naomi Sanabria-De-Long of Polymer Sci-ence and Engineering on “New Properties from PLA–PEO–PLA Hydrogels” (Vol 1, No. 4, pp. 253-258). Tissue engineering is meant to repair or replace damaged body parts, and hydrogels would be good for the matrix on which the tis-sue would grow. A holdup has been the need for the hydrogels to be sufficiently stiff. This work created poly(L-lactide)-poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(L-lactide) triblock copolymers that improve stiffness significantly by an order of magnitude.

AIChE and ISPE student chaptersThis academic year, the UMass Amherst student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) held a reception to welcome incoming freshmen, an information luncheon for sophomores, a résumé workshop co-sponsored by the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers, a special briefing by Dean Mike Malone on ChE careers for the future, and a plant trip to Ben and Jerry’s. Also, as a service project, the AIChE has taken responsibility for monitoring the Alumni Classroom for study space at night, in coordination with the faculty. Officers for 2005-06 are:

• Eric Johnson ’06 - President• Melissa St. Amand ’07 - Vice President• Dan Hines ’06 - Treasurer• Mike Umbarger ’06 - Secretary• Heather Taylor ’06 and Laura Benoit ’06 - Social Chairs


The student chapter of the Institute for Pharmaceutical Engi-neering (ISPE) currently has about 22 members. Its 2005-06 officers are:

• Cheng-Yuk Lee ’06 - President• Dan Hines ’06 - Vice President• Dawn Eriksen ’07 - Treasurer• Caitlin Blacker ’07 - Secretary• Paul Robinson ’07 - Membership Chair• Pre Katti ’08 - Sophomore class representative• Jeremy Sauer ’09 - Freshman class representative

Mary Wojtyk visited from Biogen Idec and gave a talk titled “Chemical Engineers’ Roles and Opportunities in a Pharma-ceutical Company.” A group of ISPE members also went to the ISPE annual Product Show and met with the chapter’s indus-trial adviser, Rick Pierro, and other student chapters including Tufts, the University of New Hampshire, and Northeastern. One of the chapter’s board members, Dawn Eriksen ’07, at-tended the annual ISPE national conference in Arizona. Up-coming plant-tour trips will be to Biogen Idec (Cambridge) and Wyeth (Andover).

Professor Neil Forbes is the faculty adviser for both organiza-tions.

WEP/MEP honor ChEsChemical engineers were well represented at the annual Wom-en in Engineering (WEP) and Multicultural Engineering Pro-gram (MEP) Awards Banquet in May 2005. Lauren Hurd ’05 won an Outstanding Woman in Engineering Award, and Juan Avendano ’05 received the Multicultural Engineering Program Outstanding Senior Award. Also honored were Oscar Eti-enne ’06 with an MEP Academic Achievement Award; Carlos Benitez ’06 and Vishan Chamanlal ’07 with MEP Leadership Awards; and Emma Trivella ’06 with an MEP Service Award.

Student volunteers reach outIn last spring’s ChE 230 Fluid Mechanics, Prof. Surita Bha-tia developed an outreach project in which students prepared demonstrations and poster presentations to explain a concept from Fluid Mechanics in lay terms.

The students traveled to Granby Junior-Senior High School to present these projects to over 100 high-school students from

science, math, and art classes. Feedback from both our students and Granby’s was that they had a thought-provoking and excit-ing time.

Graduate program updateWe had 56 graduate students as of Fall 2005, including a strong group of ten new students coming from around the world. The new students’ names, schools, and advisers are:

• Joungmo Cho, Univ. of Buffalo (Mountziaris)• Borislava Kostova, Univ. of Buffalo (Mountziaris)• Soumitra Choudhary, U.I.C.T. Mumbai (Bhatia)• Todd Crosby, Univ. of Pittsburgh (Watkins)• Vishal Gaurav, IIT-Madras (Roberts)• Tracy Heckler, Rutgers Univ. (Mountziaris)• Pavan Kambam, IIT-Madras (Sun)• Sreekumara Kuriyedath, IIT-Delhi (Mountziaris)• Hakan Olcay, Middle East Technical Univ. (Huber)• Tejinder Singh, IIT-Delhi (Maroudas/Mountziaris)• Prasad Teella, IIT-Bombay (Westmoreland)• Tushar Vispute, U.I.C.T. Mumbai (Huber)

For our M.S. and Ph.D. students whose degrees or final defens-es were in 2005, congratulations to them and their advisers:

• Aude Morel, M.S. (Westmoreland)• Maohua Cao, Ph.D. (Monson)• Souvik Nandi, Ph.D. (Winter)• Timothy Francis, Ph.D. (Watkins)• Matthew Law, Ph.D. (Westmoreland)• Camille Dubois, M.S. (Roberts)• Bernabe Quevedo, M.S. (Henson/Coughlin)• Aurelie Schoemann, Ph.D. (Westmoreland/Farris)• Xiaoying Shan, Ph.D. (Watkins)

Valipa honored for researchGraduate student Mayur Valipa won an MRS Silver Award for his contribution to the Spring 2005 Materials Research Society (MRS) meeting in San Francisco, followed in November by the “Top-Level Graduate Student Award” given by the American Vacuum Society (AVS) during the 52nd International Sympo-sium of the AVS in Boston. The latter award is the most presti-gious AVS student award.


The MRS award honored graduate students presenting “sympo-sium papers which exemplified significant and timely research,” in this case a paper titled “The Role of SiH

3 Diffusion in De-

termining the Surface Smoothness of Plasma-Deposited Amor-phous Si Thin Films: An Atomic-Scale Analysis” by Mayur S. Valipa, Tamas Bakos, Eray S. Aydil, and Dimitrios Maroudas.

Mayur’s findings used his molecular-dynamics simulations and post-doc Tamas Bakos’s quantum-mechanical calculations to resolve one of the long-standing issues in amorphous silicon science and technology: the temperature dependence of amor-phous silicon thin-film surface roughness, a very important property for optoelectronic and photovoltaic device fabrication applications.

Mayur defended his Ph.D. successfully this past fall at the Uni-versity of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), from which he had come following his adviser Dimitrios Maroudas, who joined the UMass Amherst faculty in 2002. While Mayur’s Ph.D. is awarded from UCSB, he conducted his award-winning research here in Amherst. This was the third major award that Mayur has received since he arrived at UMass Amherst; the first one was the AVS Thin-Film Division Graduate Student Award in Fall 2003. His Ph.D. thesis research will have resulted in an impres-sive 15 refereed publications.

Faculty highlightsSurita Bhatia won the 2005 College of Engineering Bar-bara H. and Joseph I. Goldstein Outstanding Junior Faculty Award last May. In June she was the Keynote Lecturer at the 79th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, speaking on the subject “When Micelles Attract.” In July she presented a short course with laboratory on “Polymeric Biomaterials” at the Young Women in Science Program held at Simon’s Rock College in Great Barrington, Mass., targeting high-school girls interested in science and engineering careers. Two more high-lights were co-authorship of the article “Biomaterials” in the Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing (Marcel Dekker, 2005) and lead editorship of the book Neutron and X-ray Scattering as Probes of Multiscale Phenomena (P. G. Khalifah, D. J. Pochan, and P. G. Radaell, co-editors) Warrendale, Pa: Materials Research Society, 2005). In February 2006, she was awarded promotion to Associ-ate Professor with tenure, to be effective September 1, 2006.

Curt Conner continues to draw much attention for his work on synthesizing new zeolites using microwave heating. He is Principal Investigator for a Nanotechnology Interdisciplin-

ary Research Team (NIRT) grant titled “Microwave synthesis of Nanoporous Catalysts,” sponsored by the National Science Foundation (2003-2007).

Jeff Davis, in his third year, continues to build his research group and to be a key player in our graduate curriculum, teaching both Fluid Mechanics and Heat and Mass Transfer. He published three papers including his first sole-authored paper, “Asymptotic Analysis of Liquid Films Dip-coated onto Chemi-cally Micropatterned Surfaces,” in Physics of Fluids.

Neil Forbes received his first major grant, titled “Microelec-trode Oxygenation Control of Tumor Necrosis.” It was awarded by the National Institutes of Health [EBRG-A1, 11/1/05 – 10/31/07, $333,809, indirect: $58,809]. Meanwhile, he has been teaching the first-semester freshman course “Introduction to Chemical Engineering” and the junior Separations course. Like Profs. Bhatia, Henson, Roberts, Sun, and Westmoreland, he has also been moving his group into the new ELab II building this year.

Mike Henson is blending his expertise in classical process dynamics and control with application in cell dynamics and systems biology. In June 2005, he presented an invited seminar at Imperial College (London) titled “Modeling the Synchro-nization of Yeast Autonomous Oscillations.” In July, Mike was Co-Chair of the conference “Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering,” Santa Barbara, Calif., and in January he was Chair of the “Chemical Process Control 7” conference, held at Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. Both conferences were spon-sored by the nonprofit CACHE Corporation (www.cache.org), an organization dedicated to providing software, services, and educational content that are Computer Aids for Chemical En-gineering Education. To his credit, both conferences were very successful. In November, he was elected to the CACHE Board of Trustees. Mike Malone Ph.D. ’79 is in his second year as Dean of the College of Engineering, leading and strengthening the College. At the same time, he and Soren Bisgaard of the Isenberg School of Management have been teaching a project-based course in Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Dimitrios Maroudas and his group have been very active, with 21 journal articles published or accepted over the past year. He has also been sought after as an invited speaker, pre-senting two departmental seminars at Minnesota, one at Stan-ford, and one at Tufts. Some of his research work on the plasma deposition of silicon thin films was featured in the College of


Engineering’s Annual Report for FY 2005. A piece of his re-search work in this area, titled “Surface Smoothening Mecha-nism of Amorphous Silicon Thin Films” and coauthored by M. S. Valipa, T. Bakos, and E. S. Aydil, was published last November in Physical Review Letters. In addition to his research activities, Dimitrios served as one of the subject editors (on Mathematical Methods) for the Handbook of Materials Modeling that was pub-lished last summer by Springer. He teaches core Chemical En-gineering graduate courses on Advanced Analysis and Transport Phenomena, organizes the research seminar series on Compu-tational Materials Science, and has been serving as Graduate Program Director of our department since September.

Peter Monson has been appointed to the editorial board of the journal Langmuir, published by the American Chemical So-ciety. Langmuir is the leading journal in the field of colloid and interface science and engineering. He presented the keynote lecture titled “Molecular Models of Fluids in Mesoporous Ma-terials: A Unified Approach to Gas Adsorption and Mercury Porosimetry” at the International Workshop on Mercury Poro-simetry, and he gave invited seminars in June 2005, at the Uni-versity of Leipzig and the Technical University of Berlin. He is also serving a 2004-2010 term on the Board of Directors of the International Adsorption Society.

Susan Roberts was promoted to Associate Professor with ten-ure on September 1, 2005. In addition to her regular teaching load and leadership of the ICE initiative, she led the under-graduate Honors Colloquia and gave her annual lecture titled “Teaching Problem Solving in Engineering and the Sciences,” part of the campus-wide training of teaching assistants. She co-taught a graduate course on ethical conduct of research in the Chemistry-Biology Interface program, leading a module on Data Falsification, Fabrication, and Plagiarism. She also led a busy group of five undergraduates, two M.S. students, four Ph.D. candidates, and two post-docs as the group moved its activities to ELab II.

Lianhong Sun is in his second year as an Assistant Profes-sor. He has been setting up his research laboratory for studying quorum-sensing systems in E. coli with graduate student Dan Sayut and undergraduates Dawn Eriksen ’07 and Polina Razina ’07. With Prof. Mike Henson, he co-developed a new graduate-level course in molecular and systems biotechnology.

Phil Westmoreland was Chair of the Executive Board of the National Program Committee of AIChE during 2005, lead-ing its national programming activities and policies. In July 2005, Phil was the Keynote Lecturer for the Fifth International Seminar on Flame Structure held in Novosibirsk, Russia, and in November 2005 he was a plenary lecturer for the biennial Technical Meeting of the Eastern U.S. Section of the Combus-tion Institute. He also gave invited seminars at the EPA, Vander-bilt, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the University of Maryland. As a follow-up to their Science article, in October he and his team of collaborators were awarded the 2005 David A. Shirley Award “for the surprising and far-reaching discovery of enols in flames.” The award recognizes the outstanding achieve-ment of the past year at the Advanced Light Source of Law-rence Berkeley National Laboratory, where Phil and the team conduct research.

Henning Winter was on leave in 2004-05, using his Conti Faculty Fellowship from the university to develop a network of rheology software and researchers from around the world. (See rheology.tripod.com for more about the IRIS software.) As part of his activity, he led short courses at UMass Amherst, Lub-bock, Berlin, and Suzhou China and has given invited lectures at ETH-Zürich, Southern Mississippi, Novartis, Karlsruhe, the University of Virginia, and the Keynote Lecture at the fourth Pacific Rim Conference on Rheology (PRCR4), Shanghai, China.

Professor Sherman diesWith sadness, we report that Professor John D. Sherman died February 12, 2006. He had come to us in Fall 2000 as a Profes-sor following his retirement. He taught the junior-year courses

in Thermo II and Mass Transfer through Spring 2003, when he moved to Belmont, Mass.

John was a world-renowned authority on synthesis of new zeolites and had been a Corporate Fellow at Union Carbide and UOP. He had earned his B.S. in 1959 from RPI and his Sc.D. in 1966 from MIT.

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Scholarship Awardee

The John and Elizabeth Armstrong Scholarship Carlos Benitez ’06

The Nicholas Boraski Scholarship Catherine Goodrich ’07 David Medeiros ’06 Tim Beauregard ’07 Nick Roberts ’07 Dawn Eriksen ’07

The Simon and Satenig Ermonian Scholarship John Chapin ’06 Irene Iu Yam Wang ’06 Paul Robinson ’07 Jeanine Coburn ’06

The Vladimir Haensel UOP Scholarship Jonathan Moreno ’07

The Wayne Jones Leadership Scholarship Cheng-Yuk Lee ’06

The Michael S. Sarli Scholarship Eva Shah ’07

The James M. Smith Scholarships Hao Thai ’07 Polina Razina ’07 Audrey McClain ’07 Kevin Ferreira ’07 Brian Czabaj ’07 Jennifer Kunkel ’08 Peter Sargeant ’08

Chemical Engineering Alumni Scholarships Mari-Kate McEntee ’07 Eric Johnson ’06

Chemical Engineering Memorial Scholarship Melissa St. Amand ’07

Chemical Engineering Young Alumni Scholarship Culver Cheng ’07

College of Engineering Scholarships Jessie Colgan ’06 Daniel Resca ’07 Matthew Pearlson ’07 Zoltan Mester ’08

In May 2005, we held our second Departmental Honors cel-ebration to announce the achievements of our undergraduate students. AIChE and ISPE officers were recognized, and schol-arship awards for the coming academic year were announced at the event.

Here are the College of Engineering scholarships awarded to chemical engineering students for the 2005/2006 academic year.

Jonathan Moreno ’07 receives the 2005-06 Vladimir Haensel UOP Scholarship, which sponsors a student conducting un-dergraduate research, from Prof. Phil West-moreland (’03-’05 Acting Department Head) and Prof. Mike Henson (’04-’06 Undergraduate Program Director).

Event spotlights departmental honors


Class of 1995 reunitesWhen Joanne (Chappuis) Jensen ’95 contacted her classmates to see whether they’d like to get together, the outcome was a department-hosted lunch and a Dutch-treat dinner in Amherst on November 12. The group also toured the ELab II facilities and the Alumni Classroom as well as old hangouts in Goess-mann. In particular, they stopped by the Pulaski Computer Classroom (the Cave) to see Frank Pulaski’s image sculptured in bas relief; they agreed it does look like him. They talked and of-fered encouragement to the current students, who were hard at work on a Saturday afternoon—just like old times. Participants included Kevin Chasse, Chris Comeaux, Willow DiLuzio, Erik Kershlis, Carolyn Whyte, Joe Wrona, and their guests. Here are alumni updates on these and other class of ’95 members:

Dave Billips is Department Head and Plant Superintendent of the City of Westfield. Water Pollution Control Plant. He has worked in this field since 1982 and was with Lucent and IBM before returning to Westfield.

Lynnette (Blanchard) Whitman is a Senior Engineer at In-tel, living in Westford with her husband, Jeff, and eight-year-old daughter, Jasmine. She earned a Chemical Engineering Ph.D. in 2000 from Notre Dame.

Brian Cail is a business manager in New Business Develop-ment for Zeon Chemicals in Louisville, Ky. He and his wife have a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter.

Jamie Cascio works for Lonza Biotec in Switzerland, manag-ing start-up and validation.

Joanne (Chappuis) Jensen is currently a consultant special-izing in Sensory Science and Consumer Research. After first working at Ocean Spray Cranberries, she attended the Univer-sity of Missouri where she received an M.S. in Food Science/Sensory Science in 2000. Joanne then worked for Unilever Re-search and Gillette. She and her husband, Chris, live in Stone-ham and have two-year-old twins, Madeline and Elliot.

Kevin Chasse works for ARINC in information technology of transportation communications. He and his wife, Jennifer, live in Maryland near Annapolis, and have a 16-month-old daughter, Carys. He says, “I came to work in the IT world after working as a process engineer in Silicon Valley and discovered that the way data about the manufacturing processes were col-lected was horribly inefficient. I began building my own appli-cations to more efficiently collect this data and then soon found

myself doing that work for my entire department and then for the entire company. I liked programming as much as my manu-facturing engineering work and decided to pursue it full-time when I moved back to Maryland.”

Chris Comeaux is Program Manager at Aspen Aerogels (a start-up nanomaterials company) in Northborough. Prior to Aspen he worked in R&D with Chemfab/Saint-Gobain, mak-ing silicone- and PTFE-coated fabrics. He and his wife, Marie, (UMass Amherst Ph.D., Molecular Biology ’98) live in Worces-ter and have two children, 2 and 5.

Willow DiLuzio is working for Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge following her 2004 Ph.D. from the Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences at Harvard. She studied as an NSF IGERT Fellow with George Whitesides to discover how E. coli bacteria propel and steer themselves in microchannels (Nature 435, 1271-1274, 30 June 2005). Previously she worked at DuPont Pharmaceuticals from 1995 to 2000.

Helen (Diotte) Walker is at Arch Chemicals in Athens, Tenn.

Nick Julian expects to complete an M.S. degree in Energy Engineering: Nuclear Option at UMass Lowell. He lives in Winchester and put 1,300 miles on his Suzuki 650 last summer.

Erik Kershlis is with Boeing in Lexington and lives in Nash-ua, N.H.

Tania Khan is a Ph.D. student in the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.

Tim McIlvenna has worked for Procter and Gamble since 1997 after getting an M.S. in Paper Science from the Institute for Paper Science and Technology in Atlanta. He is currently in Mehoopany, Pa., at P&G’s largest manufacturing plant in the world, working as “Bounty” Site Initiative Leader for new products, but will move to Cincinnati next summer. He’s also a UMass Amherst student again, working online toward an MBA through the Isenberg School of Management. He and his wife Julie (UMass Amherst, Nursing, ’95) are well occupied with 6-year-old Laurie and 4-year-old Robert.

Patricia (O’Rourke) Muisener is Instructor and Assistant Chair for Research in the Department of Chemistry at the University of South Florida in Tampa. She and her husband have one son, Christian, who is fifteen months old. This spring, she and her family will go to live and work in Paris, France for


a year. She will be doing research on polymer adhesion at the University of Paris in Orsay. Patricia earned her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut with Jeff Koberstein Ph.D. ’79, who is now chair at Columbia.

Eliza Rivai is Accounting Manager for Warshauer Electric Supply in Tinton Falls, N.J.

Sam Shields is Global Supply Chain Manager for the Perfor-mance Products Business Group of Cabot Corporation, located at its Technical Center in Billerica. Prior to this job, he spent nine years at Cabot’s Pampa, Texas manufacturing plant in a number of roles including Production Manager and Operations Manager.

Lloyd Vallance works for Innovative Process Solutions, Inc., an automation solutions provider for the biotech and pharmaceu-tical industries. Living in Westford, he and his wife, Annabel, are proud parents of a 15-month-old daughter, Emily.

Carolyn Whyte is an associate in the Patent Law and Intellec-tual Property Practice Groups at Proskauer Rose LLP in Bos-ton. After working with Tambrands following UMass Amherst, she went to Suffolk University Law School where she earned her J.D. magna cum laude in 2003.

Joe Wrona is at OFS Fitel in Sturbridge, an optical fiber man-ufacturer. He and his wife live in Belchertown with their four children.

News from other alumniJack Welch ’57 visited the campus last April to meet the 2005 Jack Welch Scholars. Each year two prospective UMass Amherst undergraduates are chosen to receive full scholarships covering tuition, fees, and room and board. The program was established in 2003 with a $5 million donation from the GE Foundation in Jack’s honor.

Gerald L. Couture Jr. ’67 died July 9, 2005, at his home in Rutland, Vt. Just out of school, he married Irene Wallner, who survives him along with their four grown children. Initially he was an engineer at GE’s Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and then at Rohm and Haas. However, upon receiving an MBA from Temple in 1973, he became a corporate financial con-sultant and founded Couture & Co., Inc. in 1978. In 1983 he founded Cinema North Corp. Inc., a movie exhibition business based in Rutland that is currently the 45th largest movie ex-hibitor in the U.S. From 1987 to 1996 he was CFO of Medical

Technology Systems, Inc., which manufactures and sells pro-prietary packaging systems for use by pharmacies that dispense prescription medications to nursing homes and assisted living facilities. In 2000, he became CFO of Premier Exhibitions, Inc. (formerly RMS Titanic Inc.), which is best known for its sal-vage and exhibition of items from the Titanic shipwreck, and he participated in the 2004 expedition.

Chris Read ’67 took early retirement from DuPont after 31 years. In retirement he has been doing volunteer work as a computer literacy instructor for a local computer club and working once a week with Habitat for Humanity with other retirees. He and his wife live in Houston, and he hopes to orga-nize a UMass Amherst alumni club in the area.

George Saridakis ’67 is now a juried artist working in wood objects (www.saridakis.com). Four years after his ChE B.S., he went back to earn a second B.S. in electrical engineering and then worked for 29 years in the computer industry.

Bob Quierdo Ph.D. ’71 is President of Endo-Therapeu-tics in Safety Harbor, Fla. He has also worked in senior divi-sional management positions at American Home Products and Mallinckrodt Veterinary.

Peter J. Riley Ph.D. ’75 is Technology Director of FMC Bio-Polymer, a division of FMC Corporation. FMC BioPolymer sells ingredients into a broad spectrum of the food, pharmaceu-tical and personal-care industries. They are also in the process of commercializing several technologies in oral dosage forms and in biomaterials for biomedical applications.

Kate (Fariss) Stewart ’76 is teaching chemistry at South Burlington, Vt. High School, following earlier work with West-vaco, Herzog Hart, and Polaroid.

Karrie Hanson ’76 and her daughter, Britta, were featured in AT&T CallVantage TV commercials during the 2004 Summer Olympics (for a reprise, see www.att.com/presskit/worldsnet-com/video/personal-conferencing.mpeg); her R&D team built the feature set for these services. Karrie has been a research engineer at AT&T Labs (formerly Bell Labs) since her 1984 Ph.D. at the University of California Berkeley, where she spe-cialized in electrochemical engineering. At Bell Labs, she has worked on rechargeable lithium batteries, basic electrodeposi-tion research by building an in situ atomic force microscope to monitor monolayer deposition and stripping, thin films for electronics, and new telecommunications services, including a patent for a miniature keyboard. Since 1995 she has been focus-ing on information-science R&D, working on internet service


and voice-over-IP. Karrie is married to Ben Greene, a physicist at Bell Labs, and has three teenage daughters, Erica, 17, Britta, 15, and Sophie, 13.

Tom Knecht ’76 is plant manager in Freeport, Texas, for Chemical Specialties, Inc., one of the companies of Rockwood Specialties Group, Inc.

Mike Locke ’76 is a Principal Technologist at Aspen Technol-ogy, Inc., in Cambridge.

Paul Nietupski ’76 is with the Division of Water Pollution Control in the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

Skip Rochefort ’76 is Associate Professor of Chemical Engi-neering at Oregon State University and is director of the uni-versity’s and college’s pre-college K-12 programs.

Bruce Savatsky ’76 of ExxonMobil has been awarded a pat-ent for multistep polymerization using separated, incompatible catalysts in the different steps. The patent was assigned to Uni-vation Technologies, a joint venture of ExxonMobil and Dow that was formed to develop and license the UNIPOL polyeth-ylene process.

Chuck Tatakis ’76 is Senior Project Engineer and Quality Manager of Metalor Technologies USA in North Attleborough. He has worked in precious-metals refining for the last 23 years and is an expert in fabrication of titanium process equipment.

Julio Ottino (former faculty member, 1979-91) was installed in March 2005 as Dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern Univer-sity. He holds the titles Robert R. McCormick Institute Profes-sor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering.

Jim Mahoney ’81 was elected Vice Chairman of the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA). He became Chairman following the 104th Annual Meeting of the NPRA in Salt Lake City in March. NPRA members include more than 450 companies, including virtually all U.S. refiners and petrochemical manufacturers. Jim is Executive Vice President of Operations for Flint Hill Resources, which is owned by Koch Industries, Inc. FHR has oil refineries in Texas, Minnesota and Alaska; a chemical plant in Illinois; and light-product terminals and asphalt plants throughout the Midwest.

Scott Hyney ’81 is now Vice President of Opus Investment Management in Worcester. He joined the company in 1987 and now oversees the credit research group that is responsible for the analysis of investment-grade and high-yield corporate fixed income securities. He is also the portfolio manager of the Allmerica High Yield Fund LLC and Allmerica CBO I, Ltd.

Bob Price ’81 is Plant Manager for Litho Plate Production at Kodak Polychrome Graphics in Windsor, Colo. After receiving his B.S., he obtained an M.S. in ChE at MIT. He lives in Fort Collins and has two children.

Alan Lane Ph.D. ’84, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Alabama, complements his day job with performances as singer/songwriter/guitarist Doobie “Doghouse” Wilson (bama.ua.edu/~doobiedw/). His current research is focused on heterogeneous catalysis applied to fuel cells and the hydrogen economy.

Ron Willey Ph.D. ’84, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University, directed the 2005 SACHE (Safety And CHemical Engineering Education) Faculty Workshops held at Rohm and Haas Company in Bristol and Croydon, Pa., and at Chilworth Technologies in Plainsboro, N.J. SACHE is a committee of AIChE’s Center for Chemical Process Safety. Ron has also authored seven case studies and problem sets for SACHE. His research at Northeastern focuses on synthesis and characterization of aerogels.

Norm Phillibert MS ’85 has joined Procter and Gamble in Lima, Ohio.

Joe LeBlanc Ph.D. ’85 is Vice President of Research and De-velopment at Smurfit-Stone Container, an $8 billion company that is the leading integrated manufacturer of paperboard and paper-based packaging.

Angelina Phelan ’89 is manager of the Process Engineer-ing group at Tropicana’s plant in Bradenton, Fla. Her work in-volves capital project management and process design, as well as technical support, impacting new products, expansions or up-grades/replacements of systems related to juice processing. This requires interaction with multi-functional groups from R&D, marketing, finance, operations, maintenance, and quality. A ma-jor role has been to lead the development and maintenance of the Tropicana Engineering Standards. At Tropicana, she has also participated in a range of diversity/inclusion initiatives, includ-ing training of plant staff.


Fred Phelan Ph.D. ’89 is now in the Processing Character-ization Group of the Polymers Division at NIST in Gaithers-burg, Md., focusing on development of a microfluidic chaotic mixer. For the past five years, he has also been an adjunct facul-ty member teaching physics at Frederick Community College.

Tim McKenna Ph.D. ’90 was host and served on the Inter-national Scientific Advisory Board for ECOREP, the 3rd Euro-pean Conference on the Reaction Engineering of Polyolefins in Lyon, France, June 20-24, 2005. Tim is a Professor at the Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Physique et Electronique.

Philippe Cini Ph.D. ’91 was promoted in June 2005 to Principal at Tunnell Consulting, based in King of Prussia, Pa. He was cited as instrumental in developing two critical prod-ucts: Process Capability and Control (PC&C), which dramati-cally improves manufacturing processes, and Process Analytical Technology (PAT), which meets the FDA’s demand for process understanding and product reliability.

Bob Bruno ’92 is at Genzyme in Framingham.

David Gervais ’92 was recently promoted to Principal Sci-entist in the Bioprocess Development Group at Pfizer in Sandwich, U.K. He heads a team of six people working on laboratory development of Pfizer’s bioprocesses in plants world-wide. He and his wife, Lisa, and their baby daughter, Sylvie, live in Canterbury.

Dave and Manda (Neveu) Wells ’92 live in Shrewsbury with their children, Lauren, 5, and Aidan, 3. Dave works at Braintree Laboratories in Braintree and following years of work in the polymers area, Manda is currently juggling their children and her studies toward a nursing degree.

Chris Cannizzaro ’93 completed a 2002 doctorate in chemi-cal engineering with Prof. Urs von Stockar at the Ecole Poly-technique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland on the subject “Spectroscopic monitoring of bioprocesses: A study of carot-enoid production by Phaffia Rhodozyma yeast.” He then did a post-doc at the University of Hawaii on producing hydrogen and methane from wastes for clean electricity generation. He is now a post-doc at the Kavli Center for Astrophysics and Space Research, conducting a project in the Tissue Engineering Re-source Center at MIT.

The Class of ’94 is well represented at GE:Jeff Hallen is a Senior Process Engineer for GE Silicones in Waterford, N.Y.;Eric Luftig is the Global Healthcare Marketing Director for GE Silicones in Waterford;Randy Myers is the Global Transportation Industry Technical Marketing Manager for GE Plastics in Pittsfield; and Bob Watkins is Information Technologies Leader for GE Sili-cones Americas in Waterford, N.Y.

Denise Lane-White ’94 is a partner at Blank Rome LLP in Washington D.C., focused on patent and trademark litigation and federal appeals. On the pro bono side, she has been dedicated to assisting foster parents adopting foster children. She also has turned her interest in cycling into more than $17,000 raised for AIDS charities and research through AIDS Rides in Alaska, Montana, Washington, and New York.

Jesse Margolin ’94 helped start FOCIS Associates in New-ton, which was acquired in October as a new division of SAIC. An important role of his division is developing and validating technologies for destruction of the U.S. stockpile of chemical warfare weapons.

Dorothy Pikula ’94 is now with Hasbro Games in East Long-meadow. She and her husband have three children.

Christine (Barner) Seymour Ph.D. ’95 was Meeting Pro-gram Vice-Chair for the spring 2005 AIChE National Meet-ing in Atlanta and has been selected Meeting Program Chair for the 2008 Spring National Meeting. She is past chair of the AIChE Process Development Division. Chris now works at Pfizer Global Research and Development in Groton, Conn., as does her husband, Regan Seymour Ph.D. ’95.

Priscilla Hill Ph.D. ’96 was awarded an NSF CAREER Award for her work on “A Multi-scale Approach to Particle Breakage in Stirred Vessels and Its Integration into Education.” She is an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at Missis-sippi State University.

Doug Slaughter Ph.D. ’96 is a computer program developer and Director of Consulting at Pioneer Training in Holyoke.

Raymond Rooks Ph.D. ’97 of Dow Chemical is Treasurer and past Program Chair of AIChE’s Process Development Divi-sion.


Robyn (Accardi) Foti ’97 is Program Manager for Mem-brane Materials & Synthesis at CeraMem Corporation in Waltham. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Dela-ware in 2002 and did a post-doc at Brandeis. She and her hus-band, Jamie, live in Maynard.

Kevin Cronin ’98 is an attorney with Nutter McClennen & Fish in Boston, working in the Intellectual Property group.

Jennifer (Bourque) Fiegel ’98 earned a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 2003 and is now doing a post-doc at Harvard, working on aerosol therapies for infectious diseases. She and her husband, Brian Fiegel ’98 ECE, had Elijah, their first child, on July 9, 2005 (see elijahfiegel.com for details!). Brian is a computer consultant for Buoyant Technologies.

Ashish Desai ’98 has been a Project Manager with the Dennis Group in Springfield, an architectural engineering firm special-izing in food processing. He began pursuing an M.S. in Finance at Boston College in January 2006.

Nancy Lape ’98 has joined the Department of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College as an Assistant Professor. This position follows her postdoctoral fellowship at the CNRS Laboratoire des Sciences du Genie Chimique, ENSIC-INPL, in Nancy, France. While there, she conducted research into novel meth-ods for carbon dioxide capture based on polymer absorption and taught courses in chemical product design. She earned her 2004 ChE Ph.D. from Minnesota as an NSF Graduate Fellow with Ed Cussler. Her current research interests include chemi-cal product design, the barrier behavior of skin, and diffusion in micro- and nanophase systems. On a personal note, Patricio Giecco and Nancy were married on May 14, 2005. Nancy also recently ran her third marathon and enjoys hiking, literature, singing, cooking and speaking French.

Maureen (Sheehan) Griffin ’98 has been promoted to Staff Scientist at SelectX Pharmaceuticals in Worcester. She earned her Ph.D. in ChE from the University of Pennsylvania in De-cember 2003, working on muscle-cell adhesion in Dennis Discher’s lab. She and her husband live in Lowell.

Harry Bermudez ’98 earned his ChE Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Pennsylvania in Dennis Discher’s lab, working with polymersome membrane properties. He is now carrying out a post-doc with Jeff Hubbell at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.

Caitie (Walters) Weinstein ’98, who has been with IBM since graduation, is now in its marketing group in Waltham and lives in Wilmington. She had worked as a photolithography en-gineer and then as a module team leader in the Burlington, Vt., Fab. In 2003, she relocated to Massachusetts for her husband, Sam, to enter a master’s program at MIT. Their son, Zachary, was born on June 6, 2004. Currently, she is working part-time, loving motherhood, and going to school at Boston College one night a week toward her May 2006 MBA.

Mike Schultz Ph.D. ’98 and two colleagues received the Haden Freeman Award for Engineering Excellence in London on Sept. 29, 2005, for the successful design and commercial-ization of the Dividing-Wall distillation column as part of the Pacol Enhancement Process. The award, presented at the Royal Court of Justice by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), recognizes outstanding use of design principles in practice. Mike is currently a process research specialist at UOP in Des Plaines, Ill. He has worked on the development of pro-cess technology for the refining and petrochemical industries, specializing in flow-scheme development, distillation sequenc-ing, and column design. Current projects involve technologies for the production of light olefins. On a personal note, he and Anne Donnersberger were married in Chicago on June 25, 2005.

George Oulundsen Ph.D. ’99 has been named a Distin-guished Member of the Technical Staff at OFS Fitel (formerly Spectran) in Sturbridge.

Hugh Hillhouse Ph.D. ’00, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue, has been selected as one of two final-ists from the College of Engineering for the Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Teaching Award. The Murphy award is the highest recognition for teaching at Purdue.

Adam Barger ’01 is in nuclear engineering with the U.S. Navy, traveling the world in its submarine fleet.

Jessica Densmore ’01 works for Eagle Ottawa in Whitehall, Mich., a global manufacturer of premium leather for automo-bile interiors. She does process troubleshooting, capability stud-ies, new equipment implementation, trials of new chemicals, and process improvements, also traveling to their plants in Mex-ico and South Africa. (Almost getting trampled by elephants during a weekend excursion was not in her job description.) She previously worked in Process Control Engineering at Solu-tia, where she had been a co-op. She is engaged to marry Gary Falkenhagen.


Leigh Gautreau ’01 has joined SmartCells, Inc., in Beverly. The start-up company is centered on development of an inject-able gel of polymer nanoparticles held together by a protein sensitive to glucose. These particles degrade to release insulin in response to free glucose in the bloodstream. Leigh earned her M.S.Ch.E. at Lehigh and then worked at EMD Pharmaceuti-cals. She lives in Somerville.

Jessie Ip ’01 works for Kraft in Tarrytown, N.Y.: “I have worked on many things since I have been here, from launch-ing new Kool-Aid to starting up a brand new plant in Mexico.” She is now working on developing a new process to make cal-cium citrate.

Audrey (Nystrom) Anderson ’01 has been working at Ac-centure in Wellesley since she graduated. Her technical focus is information technology, such as developing database informa-tion on manufacturing and sales of medical devices. She writes that she believes a crucial attribute from her UMass Amherst experience is that “my background really helps me understand the company and all their R&D and manufacturing processes.” In October 2004, she married Jamie Anderson in Northamp-ton, with their reception at the Garden House at Look Park. They live in Franklin. Dan Tatosian ’01 is finishing a Ph.D. at Cornell with Prof. Mike Shuler. He is developing a lab-on-a-chip model of hu-man tissues for testing cancer treatments. In the different compartments are bone cells, liver cells, and uterine cells, as de-scribed in a presentation at the 2005 AIChE Annual Meeting. Other alums currently studying at Cornell include Nelson Fe-lix ’02, Gretchen McAuliffe ’02, Jordan Atlas ’02, and Sara Yazdi ’04.

Lev Sarkisov Ph.D. ’01 joined the University of Edinburgh in April as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Institute for Materials and Processes, following post-doctoral appointments at Northwestern and Yale. His group is focusing on new biomi-metic materials and modeling.

Ayome Abibi ’02 is working for Abbott Laboratories in the biochemistry area, developing new analytical assays. He notes, “It goes to show that a ChemE can do anything!” He earned an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University with the thesis “Mechanism of Interaction of pcPNA with dsDNA,” and he is pursuing a part-time Ph.D in Bioinformatics.

Kendell Jillson ’02 is a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon working with Prof. Erik Ydstie, developing control theory for process networks. This theory is based on thermodynamics and

passivity theory, and can cover a broad range of networked sys-tems, such as biological systems or supply-chain networks.

Sankar Nair Ph.D. ’02 directs the Nanomaterials and Na-noengineering research group in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is an Assistant Professor there.

Deanna Jones ’03 received a master’s degree in education from UMass Amherst this past spring and is teaching chemistry at Glastonbury, Conn., High School. She and E. J. “Jody” Det-mer are getting married September 23, 2006.

Scott Turnberg ’03 is a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon, working with Prof. Steinar Hauan on design of reactive distil-lation.

Zhiping Lai Ph.D. ’03 was lead author on “Siliceous ZSM-5 Membranes by Secondary Growth of b-Oriented Seed Layers,” which was featured on the July 2004 cover of Advanced Func-tional Materials. Zhiping is Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Nanyang Technological Univer-sity in Singapore.

Jon Forsyth ’04 has moved to Nashua, N.H., to work for Te-radyne as a process engineer. He reports, “The job is going very well. The process I own doesn’t have any distillation columns, but it has a little bit of everything else (controls, heat exchange, kinetics, etc.).”

Erin Falco ’04 is a graduate student at the University of Maryland College Park, working with Prof. John Fisher on bio-materials development.

Ted Zabielski ’04 joined KaZaK Composites, Inc., in Wo-burn in July 2005. They develop high-performance composites by pultrusion processing. A recent example is an impact-resis-tant composite for NASA’s space shuttles. He lives in Somer-ville.

Praveen Sharma Ph.D. ’04 is working with Bristol-Myers Squibb in New Brunswick, N.J., on pharmaceutical process re-search and development.

George Sicard ’05 is with Schlumberger, an international oilfield services company, in Alice, Texas. He says they are in a major hiring mode and is happy to talk with people who are interested.


Call for co-ops and summer jobs Co-ops and summer jobs bring a valuable dimension of expe-rience beyond our classrooms and labs, and they are more and more critical to job placement. We really appreciate your aid in locating these positions in recent years.

If your organization has opportunities for these types of co-ops or for summer jobs, please contact us and we can provide ré-sumés for you to consider for these or full-time jobs. Just con-tact Cheryl Brooks, our Staff Assistant for Undergraduate and Alumni Affairs, at [email protected].

Departmental advisory boardOur departmental Advisory Board has been: Mike Sarli ’75 (Chair) of ExxonMobil; Karen Abrahamovich of IBM; Monty Alger of GE; Mike Doherty of the University of California San-ta Barbara; and Bob Steininger of Millennium Pharmaceuticals. These individuals generously contribute their time and energyto give feedback to the department and to support us in many ways. In 2006, they will be joined by five new members, Georg-es Belfort of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Michael Canary ’85 of Bayer Healthcare, Scott Kendra of Amgen, Jim Michaels of Merck, and Chris Seymour Ph.D. ’95 of Pfizer.

Chemical Engineering Alumni and Friends: Gifts to the College of Engineering and/or the Department of Chemical Engineering July 1, 2004 – June 30, 2005.

We are grateful for your ongoing generosity toward the Chemical Engineering Department and College of Engineer-ing. Your support has allowed us to provide student scholar-ships, conduct our ChE seminar program, help new faculty get started, fund instructional aids, and set up research in the new ELab II building.

For more information or to make a gift please contact the college’s Director of Development at (413) 545-0282. You may mail gifts to College of Engineering, UMass Amherst,

130 Natural Resources Road, Marston Hall 140, Amherst MA 01003. We also invite you to make your gift online by visiting www.umass.edu/development and selecting the “Give Now” option.

However you choose to make your gift, you can specifically designate that you want your gift to go to Chemical En-gineering or to particular activities within the department. Thank you for all your gifts.


Chancellor’s Circle Associate$10,000-$24,999

James M. Douglas Professor EmeritusDepartment of Chemical Engineering University of Massachusetts Amherst

Dean’s Circle Partner $5,000-$9,999

The Chemical Engineering Department wishes to recognize its alumni, faculty, and friends who made leadership gifts totaling $1,000 or more to the Univer-

Dean’s Circle Sponsor $2,500-$4,999

R. Paul Hirt ’81 * $General Electric Advanced Materials Waterford, New York&Lynn Campana ’81 * $ Lenox, Massachusetts

Michael F. Malone ’79Ph.D. Professor & Dean College of EngineeringUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Michael S. Sarli ’75 * $ Manager, Plant Automation & Computer DivisionExxonMobil Corporation Fairfax, Virginia

Marvin Schlanger ’72MS& Eva (Listman) Schlanger ’70MAPrincipalCherry Hill Chemical Investments, LLC Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

sity of Massachusetts Amherst in fiscal year 2005 and are members of the Chancellor’s Circle and Dean’s Circle of The 1863 Society for the time period of July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2005.

Raymond E. Laplante, Jr. ’87 * Manager, PE TechnologyWestlake Group of Companies Houston, Texas&Marie (Swiatlowski) Laplante ’87 * Sales Manager, Environmental SolutionsGE Power Systems Houston, Texas

James L. Mahoney ’81 * Executive Vice PresidentKoch Petroleum Group Wichita, Kansas

Lee A. Pearlmutter ’66, ’73MS Owner/PresidentDataco DeRex, Inc. Overland Park, Kansas

The 1863 Society


Dean’s Circle Member $1,000-$2,499

John W. Philpott ’63, ’77MBA Lee, Massachusetts

Raymond S. Pierson ’79 * Ojai, California

Gary W. Pritchard ’80 * $ & Christine (Mahoney) Pritchard ’79 * $ Vice President Global Manufacturing GE PlasticsGeneral Electric Company Waterford, New York

Ivan E. Rodriguez ’02Ph.D. $ ExxonMobil Corporation Fairfax, Virginia

Gregory S. Sherowski ’70 $ Chemical EngineerExxonMobil Corporation Fairfax, Virginia

Gary E. Stanitis ’80 & Judith (Bell) Stanitis ’80 Daikin IndustriesNewton Square, Pennsylvania

Peter Sukanek ’70MS, ’72Ph.D. *& Kathleen Sukanek ’72MEd * Professor, Department of Chemical EngineeringUniversity of Mississippi

Thomas T. Tung ’76Ph.D. $ ManagerRexam Beverage Can AmericasElk Grove Village, Illinois

Paul J. Zegger ’82 PartnerArnold & Porter, Attorneys at Law Washington, District of Columbia

Jeffrey D. Basch ’90 * Market Director - AutomotiveTier Business DevelopmentGE Advanced Materials AutomotiveSouthfield, Michigan

Mark B. Bradley ’79 * Media, Pennsylvania

Rear Admiral Joseph A. Carnevale (Ret.) ’71 *Senior Defense AdvisorShipbuilders Council of America Washington, District of Columbia

Thomas J. Danielson ’91Ph.D. $ Senior Research EngineerConoco, Inc. Houston, Texas

Laurence A. Hughes ’58 $ Somerset, New Jersey

Wayne C. Jones ’66 OwnerPerfect World Coaching Naples, Florida

Eric B. Luftig ’95 $ & Tina (Baker) Luftig ’96 $ Global Healthcare Marketing ManagerGeneral Electric Advanced Materials Waterford, New York

Kendall G. Miller ’79 * Owner/PresidentConsulting Engineers Newark, Ohio&Carla (Ray) Miller ’82, ’85MS * R&D ManagerOwens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation Granville, Ohio

* Donor for 5 consecutive years or more$ Corporate matching money was part of individual’s giving total


$500-$999Robert T. Duffy ’73MS * $Roy D. Hegedus ’85Ph.D. $Elmer H. Hsu ’67Ph.D. $Stanley J. Mazur, Jr. ’64Robert C. Merrill ’71 $Glen H. Pearson ’76Ph.D. *Robert J. Petrich ’88 * $Doris (Grimes) Preston ’58 *Edward S. Price ’90Charles W. Quinlan ’74Ph.D. $ Gerard P. Rooney ’82 *Wen Shi ’94Ph.D. $S. Ronald Wysk, Jr. ’66

$250-$499Dennis C. Bak ’79 $Richard E. Campagnoni ’57 *Gregory A. Cigal ’69, ’71MS $Carl G. Flygare III ’80Dana G. Frye ’90 *Ronald A. Gigliotti ’60David E. Gingras ’85 *David A. Gobran ’90Ph.D. $Howard S. Kravitz ’70 *Albert V. Laakso ’58 *Gregory F. Maher ’76, ’83 *Todd P. Marut ’75 * $Barbara McManus $Paul J. Nietupski ’76George E. Oulundsen III ’99Ph.D.Brian R. Penman ’75Norman G. Phillibert ’85MS *Valentino Rubinaccio ’81John R. Sharland ’70 * $Holly Wilson-Jene ’89William E. Woodburn, Jr. ’56

$100 - $249Robert M. Alper ’87 $Bradford D. Anderson ’79 * $Joseph P. Ausikaitis ’71 *James R. Beilstein, Jr ’96Ph.D.Anuj Bhargava ’97Ph.D.David S. Billips ’95Donna Callan ’83Michael W. Canary ’85Julie (Mcdyer) Chirumbole ’82Alexander S. Chuang ’64MS, ’74Ph.D.Richard Chutoransky ’64 $Thomas G. Clough ’82, ’84Lorraine Conroy ’81 *Mark D. Dadmun ’87, ’91MS, ’91Ph.D.Bruce B. Dickinson ’59John R. Dorgan ’86Shana Duffy ’03 $Robert G. Fitzgerald ’58 $Sharon (Brown) Forbes ’83James M. Fuller ’87Ph.D.James E. Gagnon ’74 *Martha Garske ’91Ph.D. *Robert J. Geller ’84Thomas M. Gemborys ’78 *Robert J. Guerin ’62 *Kenneth H. Gusciora ’69 *Edward H. Hsu ’79MSScott C. Hyney ’81 *John A. Jasperse ’82 *Malcolm W. King ’51 *Richard J. King ’79Kurt D. Kovacic ’84 $Walter E. Lankau, Jr. ’66MS *John & Mary Ann Lape * $Lawrence S. Martin ’67 *Frederic R. Masterton ’77 *Douglas R. Miller ’78 *James J. Muri ’87 & Nancy (Chalupa) Muri ’88 *

And Grateful appreciation to All Other Individual DonorsGifts of all levels to the Chemical Engineering Department are critically important and gratefully

acknowledged. The following individuals are not affiliated with a campus-wide giving club, but have each generously contributed between $100 and $999 to the Department during the time

period of July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2005:


$100 - $249 (continued)

Ross R. Murphy ’84Thelma (Hamilton) Murphy ’87Samuel J. November ’78 & Ronni (Zankel) November ’78Peter R. Peterson ’78James A. Petrousky ’64Robert J. Pomeroy ’85 $Francis S. Pychewicz ’56Susan Rabidou ’80 $Alfred C. Raffa ’51 *Terence E. Ryan ’01Melissa (Conner) Saunders ’89 * $Nilesh Shah ’85Ph.D. & Jean Brady ’87Ph.D.Thomas F. Simeone ’84Richard H. Sioui ’68Ph.D. $James M. Sonnett ’80MSThomas J. Stanley ’79 $Brian M. Stone ’73Dustin H. Thomas ’77 & Frances (Carlson) Thomas ’78 * $Louis G. Tortoriello ’68MSEdward V. Twardus ’52W. Murray Underwood ’63MS *Michael D. Walters ’72 & Kimberly (Lodge) Walters ’71Edward L. Weist ’88Ph.D. & Annemarie (Ott) Weist ’86 *Gary D. Wigglesworth ’80 *

Organizational Contributors and Matching Gift Companies Organizations and corporations listed below generously designated gifts toward the Chemical Engineering Department during the time period of July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2005:

BP Amoco Foundation, Inc.E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. *ExxonMobil FoundationFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund *General Electric FundGerace Family Charitable Gift FundMerck Company FoundationPhilips Electronics North America CorporationPolyCarbon Industries, Inc.QuestAir Technologies Incorporated Rohm and Haas Company *SeagateShell Oil Company FoundationSteinkopff *World Reach, Inc.Wyeth

This listing recognizes contributions received during fiscal year 2005. Every care is taken to avoid errors in the lists, but if any have occurred, please call them to our attention by contacting: Heather Demers, Associate Director of Develop-ment, tel. (413) 545-0282 or [email protected].

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