Dear CAST Community, Please join me in congratulating the winners of this year's CAST Student Travel Grants to the AIChE meeting. Each student is listed below along with their talk time, session, and title. The students are: Mr. Wesley Cole, University of Texas at Austin Wednesday, 3:35PM, Modeling and Control of Energy Systems II: (555b) Community-Scale Residential Air Conditioning Control for Effective Grid Management Mr. Matthew Ellis, UCLA Monday, 12:30PM, Networked, Decentralized, and Distributed Control: (137a) Optimal Time-Varying Operation of Nonlinear Process Systems With a Two-Layer Economic Model Predictive Control Scheme Mr. Thang Ho, University of Pittsburgh Wednesday, 1:24PM, Quantitative Approaches to Cancer Mechanisms & Therapies: (509d) An Algorithm for Patient-Specific Cancer Chemotherapy Scheduling Ms. Sara Velez, University of Wisconsin - Madison Thursday, 2:24 PM, Planning and Scheduling I: (696g) A Mixed-Integer Programming Model and Tightening Methods for Scheduling in General Chemical Production Environments Mr. Dajun Yue, Northwestern University Wednesday, 3:15PM, Supply Chain Optimization II: (573a) Sustainable Design of Supply Chains Using Life Cycle Optimization Framework Based On Functional Unit With Application On Hydrocarbon Biofuel Product Systems These students will compete at AIChE for the CAST Presentation Award; I encourage you to come support our student members as they present and discuss their research. I would also like to thank the CAST division members who served as the review committee for the Travel Grant award. They made excellent work of the challenging task of selecting these 5 students from the list of nominees. See you in San Francisco! Bob Parker.