UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 29, Page 2
April 27, 1995
Eric Kaler receives ASEE McGraw Award for 1995

     Eric W. Kaler, professor of chemical engineering, has been chosen
to receive the 1995 American Society for Engineering Education's
Curtis W. McGraw Research Award.
     Sponsored by the society's Engineering Research Council in
conjunction with the McGraw-Hill Book Co., the award was established
to recognize outstanding early achievements by young engineering
college research workers under the age of 40. The $1,000 award,
honoring the former president of McGraw-Hill who died in 1953, will be
given at the society's annual conference in June at Anaheim.
     Kaler received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering with
honors from the California Institute of Technology and earned his
doctorate at the University of Minnesota. He joined the UD faculty in
1989 after teaching at the University of Washington.
     His research interests are in the area of surfactant and colloid
science, statistical mechanics and thermodynamics.
     One of the first recipients of the Presidential Young
Investigator Awards from the National Science Foundation in 1984,
Kaler is the co-editor of Current Opinions in Colloid and Interface
Science and serves on the editorial boards of the American Chemical
Society journal, Langmuir, Colloids and Surfaces.