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Chemical Engineer Receives National New Faculty Award August 15, 2008 Hal Alper, chemical engineering assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin, has won the national 2008 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award. This $50,000 award supports faculty at the beginning of their first tenure-track appointment who demonstrate the potential to produce an independent body of scientific scholarship of outstanding quality and will make significant contributions to education in the chemical sciences. Alper engineers cells to produce important chemicals such as biofuels, pharmaceuticals and other industrial commodity chemicals. He focuses on engineering molecular transporter proteins to improve their metabolic pathways and pathway flux. The methods developed in his laboratory are generic and using biological conversion rather than petroleum-based processing can be applied to many different cellular systems to produce commodity and specialty chemicals, and biofuels. Prior to coming to The University of Texas at Austin Alper’s research findings were published in 14 technical articles by the highly cited journals Science, Nature Biotechnology and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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SEMINARS September 16, 2008
Northwestern Engineering Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
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