Vol. 18, No. 38	Aug. 5, 1999

Dreyfus Foundation recognizes teacher-scholar with 1999 award

Raul Lobo, chemical engineering, received a 1999 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. This award is given to 20 teacher-scholars, and he is one of only three chemical engineers who received the award this year.

The award program is designed to support young faculty members at early stages of their academic careers, and the $60,000 award includes $5,000 to be used by the Department of Chemical Engineering for undergraduate educational purposes.

"This is an extremely significant, highly competitive award, given to only two or three chemical engineers in the country," Eric Kaler, chemical engineering chairperson, said. "We are excited that Raul received this recognition of his excellent start in his scientific career and are also pleased to have funding to help support our undergraduate research program."

Lobo's research interest is the structure-property relationships of microporous inorganic materials and their application in catalysis and adsorption, and in the synthesis and characterization of porous, crystalline materials. This work can have applications in the field of important industrial catalysts.

Lobo, who joined the UD faculty in 1995, is a graduate of the University of Costa Rica and received his master's and doctoral degrees from the California Institute of Technology. He also received a 1998 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.