Welcome

to the SUNY-ESF

Cellulose Research Institute

 

 

 

How To Reach Us

Dr. William T. Winter, Director

SUNY-ESF

121 Edwin C. Jahn Laboratory

             Syracuse, NY 13210

Telephone: (315)470-6855 
FAX:         (315)470-6856 
Email:         cellulose@esf.edu

 

About The CRI

Mission Statement

The Cellulose Research Institute's (CRI) mission is to stimulate development and dissemination of new fundamental knowledge about cellulose and related biopolymers leading to their increased utilization.

Current Report:

Here is the most recent report of our activities (March 2006)

Who are we?

Links to homepages of our members

Our History

Created in 1953 and organizer of the Cellulose Research Conferences

The Cellulose Conferences

Information about past Cellulose Conferences

ICCC2000 - International Conference on Cellulosic Conversion April 9-12, 2000  Syracuse, NY

A mini-conference held in April 2000 in Syracuse

Recent Graduates:

Prof. Maren Grunert Roman, a  PhD student at SUNY-ESF working in Dr. Winter's lab, recipient of the 1999 Eastman Chemical Fellowship for Research in Cellulose Chemistry, BioEnvironmental Polymer Society student paper award, 2001, Schuerch Award (SUNY-ESF), 2001, has completed her PhD in Spring 2002, joined Prof.. Derek Gray, U. Montreal (2002-2004).   Dr. Maren Roman nee Grunert is now on the faculty at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg VA where she is an Assistant Professor.  Congratulations Maren!

 

Dr. Deepanjan Bhattacharya successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in April 2003. Previously he spent a summer as an intern with Eastman Chemical Co., in Kingsport TN.  He has returned to Kingsport as a scientist in the coatings research department. Congratulations  Deep!

 

1.             Dr. Shengbin Zhang successfully defended her doctoral dissertation. In January 2005 Congratulations Shengbin!

2.             Ms. Yao Chen successfully defended her MS thesis  in July, 2005 and has moved to Australia Congratulations Yao!

 

Items of Interest 

Fellowship Opportunities for Graduate  Students (US only)

Links to the major US agency graduate fellowships (NSF, NASA, EPA, DoD etc) and to a data base maintained at Cornell University.

Biobased  Products 

Links to items of interest: 

1.                              calls for proposals,

2.                              2020 Roadmaps 

Polysaccharide Chemistry Links

 

Industrial Internship 
Sponsors Are Needed

The  CRI and the Chemistry and Biology Departments seek industrial collaborators as sponsors of summer internships for graduate students as part of an NSF training center.

 Graduate Student Award ACS  CELL Division  due Oct 1,2005

The Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division of the ACS is seeking nominations for the 2004 Outstanding Graduate Student award.  Obtain the form at the link on the left. 

Nominations for the Anselme Payen Award  are due by Dec. 1 of each year

The Anselme Payen Award is given by the Cellulose and Renewable  Materials Division of the ACS in recognition of outstanding research in the area of cellulose chemistry and technology. This link describes the award, provides some history and links to a nomination form and instructions.  

 

 

Internal Usage Only

These links are accessible only from computers in the esf.edu (149.119.*.*) or syr.edu (128.230.*.*) domains. 

 

 

 

Our Proposals

Outcomes of  the 4/23/02 mtg. links to the working proposal document in word format (internal ESF/SU access only)

Meeting 4/23/02

Summary of what happened at the meeting, research topics and themes, 

MGET - a subdivision of IFAFS

Internal use only - a subset of the previous material focusing on the MGET aspects.


 
 

 

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