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RATION SOCIETIES Tetko establishes Fellowships Program for separations study Twofellowships per year - to a total of $8000 per year - are

being made available starting in 1993, according to Ed Gregor, Division Manager at Tetko and Past APS Chairman. One fellowship will be for $6000 a year towards a PhD, and the other will be for $3000 towards either an MS or MBA. However, there are restrictions. The candidate must have an ‘objective of commercial employment within the US or Canada on completion of study’. Furthermore, the candidate should be ‘preparing for a professional commercial career in the field of either process- or healthcare-related solid/liquid or solid/solid separations which employ synthetic precision woven screening media and wire cloth media’. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents. There is a preference for applied research in these fields. For more information, contact Professor Shim-Hung Chiang at the University of Pittsburgh (tel: 412 624 9636, fm: 412 624 9639); the AR? Education Committee has accepted the responsibility for coordinaeing this fellowships

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The programme of technical papers being presented at the Annual Meeting, taking place 3 - 6 May in Chicago, has been announced. The theme is ‘System approach to separation and filtration process equipment’. The meeting’s co-sponsor, the North American Membrane Society, has also organised a workshop on ‘Membrane separation’ for Sunday 2 May. Technical sessions dedicated to ‘Fluid-particle separation’ will include papers on advances in gas particle separation technology, pressure/vacuum filtration, colloidal phenomena, sedimentation/clarification/thickening, fluid-particle fundamentals, novel separation/dewatering techniques/equipment, advances in cycloning, water/wastewater treatment, depth filtration, centrifugation, electrical enhancement, separation & fluid-particle interaction in mining operations, particle characterization & transport phenomena, filtration/separation in biomedical/biotechnology applications, cartridge filtration at point-of-use, and filter media & filter aids. Sessions on ‘Membrane separation’ will cover applications of membrane filtration, separation by inorganic membranes, wettability of porous media in microporous filtration, design of membrane separation equipment and systems, membrane fouling & adsorption phenomena, new materials for membrane separation, novel concepts in membrane separation, commercial development of new technologies on membrane separation, and new techniques on characterization of membrane structure & morphology. Sessions on ‘Special topics’ will include papers on solidliquid separation operational problems, selection & sizing of solid-liquid separation equipment, a systems approach to fluid-particle separation, monitoring & control techniques in filtration/separation, fine particle separations, industrial separations, environmental issues/economics/engineering decisions on selecting separation equipment/systems, cleanup & disposal of hazardous waste, and filter testing methods. For in&rmation contact the AFS or the Meeting Chainnan

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