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The article profiles Mark E. Davis, a chemical engineering professor at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Davis studied the lasting effects on drug design and the field of nanomedicine. In this context, the author mentioned Davis's academic and occupational achievements as well as his affiliations to various scientific communities.

The article features Frances Arnold, a 51-year-old chemical engineer and biochemist. Arnold is a professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. She helped develop a technique called directed evolution in which promising strands of parent proteins are either mutated or recombined to create new proteins. She became the first woman, and eight living scientist, to be elected to all three of the U.S. National Academics. Her induction into the National Academy of Sciences was preceded by her joining the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 and the Institute of Medicine in 2004.

The article highlights Jay Keasling, a chemical engineer at the University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. Keasling believes ethanol is a poor biofuel and favors the use of gasoline instead. He contends that alternative fuels, like ethanol, have a hard act to follow. Ethanol is a short-chain alcohol, featuring a less energetic carbon-oxygen bond alongside some of the power-packing carbon-hydrogen bonds of gasoline. It delivers about 30 percent less energy than gasoline. With his contention about ethanol, he is anticipating that synthetic biology will allow him to make microbes that turn out transportation fuel.

Reports on the 2004 Gary Leach Award of the Northern California (NorCal) Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in recognition of their extraordinary service in fundraising and arrangements for the 2003 San Francisco AIChE Annual Meeting Welcome Reception in California. Number of companies enlisted by the NorCal for the management of the reception.

Features the 2003 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting held in San Francisco, California. Attendance; Technical sessions; Topical conferences; Contact information.

Focuses on the provisions of the California State Engineers' Act relating to chemical engineers. Efforts of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' Northern California Local Section's Government Relations Committee to change the legislation; Definition of the scope of practice by state law.