If you're into NASA and space exploration, check out the latest iPhone and Android apps that allow you to enjoy images directly from the Mars rover Opportunity and more.

Are you a student or young professional? Are you curious about what how AIChE is set up? Are you wondering about what exactly you get with AIChE membership?
Have you heard about YPAB, but aren't quite sure what it does?

Read the Young Professionals Newsletter!

Our AIChE Fellows/Young Professionals Mentoring Pilot Program was a great success last year, thanks to the Fellows and Young Professionals who participated, and we hope to change aspirations into results for a whole new group of participants this year. We will begin a second round of the Fellows/Young Professionals Mentoring Program in February 2012 and hope that you will take part.

You still have time to register for the 2012 Carbon Management Technology Conference, held 7-9 February in Orlando, Florida, at the Caribe Royale Hotel and Convention Center.
Register by Monday, 16 January to take advantage of early registration rates!

For a humorous look at the undergraduate decisions that every chemical engineer makes, check out this tongue-in-cheek "investigative report" on why student students choose chemical engineering as a major. You can watch the video in the panel to the right.

After a great year, YPAB is jumping right into 2012. We recently elected a new Vice Chair, Christine Curran of the South Texas Local Section, and are currently preparing for the Spring Conference which will be held in Houston in April.

This month CEP kicks off a series of articles about engineers and social media and also launches YPOV, a new column for Young Professionals, which looks this month at how community service and volunteer activities can provide exceptional opportunities for career building.

Using a biopixel display composed of millions of living E.coli bacterial cells that fluoresce in unison like a blinking Las Vegas neon sign, bioengineers at UC San Diego have created a bacterial sensor that can easily detect low levels of arsenic.

This month's featured Young Professional is Christine Curran. Learn about her work as a chemical engineer at ExxonMobil, her academic background, and more here.

With the new year here and so many events happening in chemical engineering, biological engineering, management, safety, and sustainability, we decided to put together a quick guide to events from now through September of 2012. Get your online calendars ready to record the early-bird deadlines and calls for papers.

In the wake of Fukushima and its chilling effect on nuclear policy around the world, a newly released study from the University of Chicago's Energy Policy Institute finds that small modular reactors may hold the key to an actual renaissance of U.S. nuclear power.

Upcoming Events for the Chicago, Northern California, South Texas and Puget Sound Young Professionals Sections

The EPA’s Boiler MACT rules will change how your business operates. On Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 2 PM, there will be a 90-minute informative web forum which will give you the facts and help you plan how you move into compliance by the target dates.