Texaco Extends Professorship

CHEM E

New Gift from Texaco

Makes Chair Permanent

A $500,000 gift from the Texaco Philanthropic Foundation has established 
the Texaco-Mangelsdorf Career Development Professorship as a permanent 
chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering.

Two professors have held the Texaco-Mangelsdorf Career Development 
Professorship. The first holder was Ulrich Suter, now a world renowned 
expert on the molecular theory of 

polymers. The current holder is Daniel Blankschtein, whose research 
covers the field of colloids and other structured fluids that arise in 
such applications as novel separation processes, enhanced oil recovery 
and biomedical engineering. 

The chair was established in 1981 in memory of the late Theodore A. 
Mangelsdorf, Class of 1926, a former executive vice president of Texaco 
and a former faculty member, through the gifts of his son, Frederick E. 
Mangelsdorf, Class of 1960, and the Texaco Philanthropic Foundation. 

Willis B. Reals, Texaco Chemical Company chairman, and Frederick 
Mangelsdorf, director of Texaco's International Sales, Transportation 
and Trading Service Group, presented the first installment of the grant 
at a recent campus luncheon.

"Our national well being depends in large measure on the leadership 
being developed in our educational system and we are confident that the 
outstanding scholars the Texaco-Mangelsdorf Professorship supports will 
play an important role in that enterprise," said Carl D. Davidson, 
foundation president. 

In acknowledgment, President Paul E. Gray of MIT, said: "This generous 
gift by the Texaco Foundation will guarantee that the chair will be a 
continuing resource for the development of young faculty in chemical 
engineering at MIT."