ChBE Department Chair and Alfred T. and Betty E. Look Professor Dan Schwartz has been elected to the Chair line of the American Chemical Society's Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry.
As part of his new responsibilities, Schwartz will serve as Vice Chair in 2014, Chair Elect in 2015, Division Chair in 2016, and Past Chair in 2017.
Schwartz also currently serves as a Senior Editor of Langmuir. His research on biorefining catalysts was recently published in Nature Communications.