Acurto, Barybin receive DuPont grants

Aaron Scurto, Assistant Professor of Petroleum and Chemical Engineering, and Misha Barybin, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, have been awarded DuPont Young Professor grants. Both are researchers at the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis.

Each recipient will recieve $25,000 per year for three years from DuPont. They can also increase the amount of the grants by seeking matching funds from governmental agencies.

Scurto's research covers topics such as chemo-enzymatic catalysis, nano-scale materials production and processing in supercritical fluids and green/sustainable chemistry.

Barybin's reserach areas include molecular dynamics simulations, statistical mechanics, quantum chemistry, biological molecules and solutions.