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Chemical Engineering Program Features Edwin Lightfoot in Distinguished Lectureship (cont.)
On April 20th and 21st, the Chemical Engineering Program was proud to feature Edwin Lightfoot as the speaker in the 2009 Frontiers in Chemical Engineering Distinguished Lectureship. During his visit, Lightfoot presented two seminars. The first was a Technology and Society Lecture entitled “Two Sides of the Coin: What Can Modern Biology Add to “Classical” Chemical Engineering.” The second was a Technical Lecture, “Transport Phenomena and Evo Devo.” Edwin N. Lightfoot Jr. is the Hilldale Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Professor Lightfoot is a world leader in the areas of mass-transport reaction modeling, biological mass-transfer processes and separations processes. He helped establish one of the fundamental pillars of Chemical Engineering when he, along with colleagues Robert Bird and Warren Stewart, published their seminal text, Transport Phenomena. Prof. Lightfoot has made numerous contributions in a variety of areas related to chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, and biotechnology, including the recovery and purification of Vitamin B12, the study of multicomponent diffusion in living systems, the effects of mass transfer in the microcirculation, and the study of diabetes and its response to insulin. Prof. Lightfoot has been recognized with numerous honors for the caliber of the work he has accomplished and the impact he has had. Among his many awards, he has received honorary doctorates from the Technical University of Denmark Professor Lightfoot received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University in 1947, followed by his Ph.D. in 1951. After working at Pfizer briefly, Professor Lightfoot joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin in 1953 where he has been ever since. The University of Connecticut Chemical Engineering Program established the Frontiers in Chemical Engineering Lectureship in 2002. The Lectureship was established with two distinct purposes: to recognize outstanding accomplishments and developments in chemical technology, and to share the excitement of engineering science and technology with a broad audience. In various years, the Lectureship will recognize outstanding members of the academic community, the industrial community, government, and the media who are leaders in research, technology development, and in communication of scientific and technological ideas, with the purpose of stimulating discussion and growth at the University and in the broader community.
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and from the Technical University of Norway where he was also a Fulbright Research Scholar in 1962. He is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. More recently, Prof. Lightfoot received the National Medal Of Science For Engineering bestowed by the President of the United States for “For vigorous and sustained leadership in developing the fields of biochemical and biomedical engineering, particularly in the areas of blood oxygenation, oxygen diffusion into tissue, mathematical modeling of biological pathways, bioseparations and studies of diabetic responses.”