Vorbeck Materials Corporation (Jessup, MD) and the role of faculty from the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department in its founding and development are highlighted in a recent report from The Science Coalition on “Sparking Economic Growth – How federally funded university research creates innovation, new companies and jobs” (April 2010). Profs. Ilhan Aksay and Robert Prud’homme are listed as the co-founders along with company’s President, Dr. John Lettow (ChE ’95). Profs. Aksay and Prud'homme are within the Chemical and Biological Engineering department at Princeton University.

The Science Coalition is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of more than 40 of the nation’s leading public and private research universities. It is dedicated to sustaining the federal government’s investment in basic research as a means to stimulate the economy, drive innovation and secure America’s global competitiveness.

More information about The Science Coalition is available at www.sciencecoalition.org.

(Posted 28 July 2010)