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Educating an engineer
The University of Pittsburgh has a new learning center for undergraduate chemical engineering students. The authors describe its innovative aspects and student and faculty reactions.
John N. Murphy, Alan J. Russell, Anthony B. Jones

Selective reduction with Cp₂ZrHCl
Tertiary amides are convenient intermediates in multistep organic syntheses, but they’re difficult to remove selectively. This hydrozirconium reagent fills the bill.
Jonathan M. White, Ashok Rao Tunoori, Gunda I. Georg

Titanium nanoparticles move to the marketplace
How a mining company got into the nanotechnology business and wound up making materials for everything from environmental cleanups to cosmetics.
Douglas K. Ellsworth, Dirk Verhulst, Timothy M. Spitler, Bruce J. Sabacky

Global warming: Are attitudes changing?
Three years after the historic signing of the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the author seeks answers from some of industry’s top executives.
Charles W. Schmidt