Statler College Professor Derek Johnson received $5.5 million in U.S. DOE funding to lead a project to better understand where and why leaks of methane and other gases happen and their effects on local air quality and global climate. ow.ly/yQt950NtKeQ

Today’s Senior Capstone Design Showcase presentation was on Assessment of Wastewater Treatment Technologies Suitable for Development in Appalachia from student group Mountaineer Water Tech, advisors Dr. Lima and Water FutureTech, Inc. Excellent work students! #LetsGo #WVUcapstone

2023 Rising Stars in ChemE application now open! Early-career women interested in ChemE faculty careers encouraged to apply for this fall workshop. Apps due May 15. ow.ly/rxMR50NQE98 MIT School of Engineering American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) NOBCChE Official SWE

We're looking for 2 postdocs to join our team! 1. Catalytic hydrogenation/dehydrogenation (U.S. citizens only) 2. Upgrading ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Both have flexible start dates . Interested candidates: e-mail me your CV or apply at careers.ua.edu/jobs/post-doc-…

West Virginia University leaders have recommended doing away with 32 of its majors and 169 faculty jobs are on the line amid a $45M budget shortfall. "My colleagues and I are still in shock," a professor told me. New for West Virginia Watch || bsky @westvirginiawatch.com | News from the States || bsky @statesnewsroom.com westvirginiawatch.com/2023/08/11/my-…

Of all the proposed cuts outside my home unit, this is the one that blows me away the most. Cutting a unit that provides ~20,000 credit hours of instruction annually, saying that those classes aren't worthwhile.

In reviewing the recommendations for WVU’s department cuts, 2 trends stuck out: -Degrees that are often 2nd majors were penalized -Specialization was penalized 🧵1/9 on pitfalls of that thinking

Monday at noon, #WVU

Our AIChE Journal perspective with Dr. Madelyn Ball👇🏼 Membrane design could benefit from leveraging the “catalysts toolkit” - hope both communities find it useful. Thanks WV HEPC for funding and the editors for the invite!Congrats deepanjali roy , Mihir Kulkarni & Nhan Khuu 🎉

BREAKING: As WVU Board meets to vote on massive program cuts, AAUP calls out lack of faculty involvement, urges adherence to academic due process aaup.org/news/west-virg… 1/ West Virginia Campus Workers

Thank you to Madison Santmyer, Frankie Tack, and Stanley Hileman for voting with the faculty, staff, and students who have, in no uncertain terms, made their positions clear.

Interested in grad school? Come see WVU Statler College at #AIChE2023 and learn about our exciting research!

What is the value of a PhD to the student? Piggy backing on this bc the responses to @pauldauenhauer were overall disheartening. 1/n please share and add!!!

I'm excited to share our recent work on structure sensitivity in CO2 methanation published in Catalysis Sci & Tech! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…