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

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

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.

'Despite pleas...to change course, and despite student protesters..., the West Virginia University Board of Governors voted to eliminate 143 faculty positions and 28 academic programs from its flagship Morgantown campus.'

Inside Higher Ed by Ryan Quinn

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BREAKING:

As WVU Board meets to vote on massive program cuts, AAUP calls out lack of faculty involvement, urges adherence to academic due process

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West Virginia Campus Workers

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 🎉

Thinking today about how hard the Bush cuts to higher ed ushered in the consultants to produce the 'college experience' in the face of hiring freezes, printer quotas, and library relocations. (1/)

Monday at noon, #WVU

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

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.

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.
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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-…

Happy last couple weeks of the academic year, everybody

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

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

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

Check out our work on dilute alloys for selective hydrogenation!