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Vorbeck Materials Corporation and Princeton University Cited in Report on Economic Growth

Vorbeck Materials Corporation (Jessup, MD) and the role of faculty from the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department in its founding and development are highlighted in a recent report from The Science Coalition on “Sparking Economic Growth – How federally funded university research creates innovation, new companies and jobs” (April 2010). Profs. Ilhan Aksay and Robert Prud’homme are listed as the co-founders along with company’s President, Dr. John Lettow (ChE ’95). Profs. Aksay and Prud'homme are within the Chemical and Biological Engineering department at Princeton University.

The Science Coalition is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of more than 40 of the nation’s leading public and private research universities. It is dedicated to sustaining the federal government’s investment in basic research as a means to stimulate the economy, drive innovation and secure America’s global competitiveness.

More information about The Science Coalition is available at www.sciencecoalition.org.

(Posted 28 July 2010)