COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Dec. 16, 2011 – Select students from the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University have been recognized as distinguished members of their Fall 2011 graduating class. At a reception honoring the department’s spring graduates, Megan Fitzgibbons was named recipient of the department’s “Outstanding Graduating Senior Award.” Also honored at the graduate reception were three student recipients of the “Chemical Engineering Excellence Award.” Those students are Michelle Havlock, Stephen Kohn and Eric Yang. Addressing the students and their families in attendance, Professor and Interim Department Head Charles Glover lauded the students’ achievements, congratulating them on graduating with a degree in “one of the most demanding majors at ... Read More »

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Dec. 2, 2011 – A Texas A&M University research initiative that converts human wastes into biofuels has received a Phase 1 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant totals $100,000 with the opportunity for additional funding of up to $1 million. The 18-month grant will help fund the biomass research program run by Mark Holtzapple, professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M. The grant is one of only 110 awards selected from a pool of 2,075 submissions. The objective of the research, Holtzapple says, is to demonstrate that carboxylic acid fermentation can be adapted as a sanitation treatment, providing health ... Read More »