By SUE WUETCHER
Reporter Editor

Carl R.F. Lund, professor of chemical and biological engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been named a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees.

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The rank of distinguished professor, the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system, is an order above full professorship and has three co-equal designations: distinguished professor, distinguished service professor and distinguished teaching professor.

The distinguished teaching professorship recognizes and honors outstanding teaching at the graduate, undergraduate and professional levels. It is awarded to full professors who have demonstrated consistently superior mastery of teaching, outstanding service to students and commitment to their ongoing intellectual growth, scholarship and professional growth, and adherence to rigorous academic standards and requirements.

A faculty member since 1986, Lund received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1991 and was named a Lilly Teaching Fellow by the UB Office of Teaching Effectiveness in 1988. In addition, he twice has been named "Chemical Engineering Professor of the Year" by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' student chapter at UB, and was selected Teacher of the Year" by the New York Nu Chapter of Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society.

The recipient of the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1988, Lund's current research interests include heterogeneous catalysis for fuels and chemicals from domestic and renewable resources, mechanistic and quantum modeling of heterogeneous catalytic reactions, methods for the design and development of heterogeneous catalysts and the development and assessment of tools to facilitate active learning in engineering courses.

His research has been supported by the NSF and the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as by other public and private-sector sources.

The author of numerous scientific publications, he also is a reviewer for scientific journals, book publishers and federal granting agencies.

Lund served as chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering from June 1997 to January 2006, and as associate dean for research in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from January 2006 to September 2006.

He is an honors graduate of Purdue University and received a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.