Cornell University alumnus John Carberry, director of environmental technology for DuPont, will deliver the 10th Raymond G. Thorpe Lecture in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering on Thursday, Oct. 30.

His talk, "Industry and the Environment: Changing Paradigms," will be given at 4:30 p.m. in 165 Olin Hall, on the Cornell campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

At DuPont, Carberry is responsible for providing technical analysis of existing and emerging environmental issues. Since 1988, he has been involved with initiatives to advance DuPont's environmental programs through changes in products, recycling of materials and renewal of processes with an emphasis on reducing waste, combined with affordable, publicly acceptable technologies for the abatement, treatment and remediation of environmental pollution.

Carberry is chairman of the chemical engineering advisory board at Cornell, a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and chairman of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Destruction of the Non-Stockpile Chemical Weapons. He also is a founding member of the Green Power Market Development Group and a member of the National Academy of Engineering Committee on Technologies for Sequestering Carbon Dioxide.

He graduated from Cornell in 1963 with an M.S. in chemical engineering. He also holds an M.B.A. from the University of Delaware.

The Raymond G. Thorpe Fund enhances undergraduate education by bringing industrial and academic visitors to the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. It was established in 1989 by alumni and friends to honor Thorpe on his retirement after 39 years on the faculty.

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