UNIV. OF MICHIGAN HONORS STUART CHURCHILL AND NAMES SHARON GLOTZER CHURCHILL PROFESSOR

Earlier this year, colleagues and former students of Stuart Churchill gathered at the Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for a celebration of Churchill's 90th birthday. Churchill, the Carl V. S. Patterson Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, had been a faculty member at the Univ. of Michigan, where he earned his PhD in chemical engineering in 1952. He chaired the chemical engineering department there from 1962 to 1967, before joining U. Penn.

Churchill has made many contributions to the fields of combustion, heat transfer, and fluid dynamics. He also served as AIChE President in 1966, and was elected to the National Academy of …