Changing of the GuardGary BennettDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Mail Stop 305, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606-3390;gbennett@eng.utoledo.edu

Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/ep.10009

INTRODUCTIONYou may have heard that Environmental Progress,

although still owned and under the editorial control ofAIChE, is being published in partnership with JohnWiley & Sons. This new partnership promises manybenefits to readers. With this change in publishing, it isan appropriate time to look back and reflect on ourhistory.

Since AIChE began publishing EnvironmentalProgress in 1982, it has been my privilege to be itsEditor. In this capacity, I have worked closely withAIChE staff in the publication process. Initially, myManaging Editor was Maura Mullen. Maura workedwith me for almost 20 years until her retirement in 2000.Her successor was Lois Anne DeLong. There was asmooth, seamless transition from one good managingeditor to another.

Lois Anne has been an AIChE employee for morethan 25 years, serving in a variety of positions in com-munications and publication. She launched AIChExtraand Chapter One (AIChE’s former student magazine).Before Lois Anne’s most recent assignment as Manag-ing Editor of Environmental Progress and ProcessSafety Progress, she was the marketing manager ofpublications. She gave “her all” to EnvironmentalProgress, initiating and bringing her exceptional writ-ing talents to bear on new columns and front matterissue.

My only regret in “changing of the guard” for thepublication of Environmental Progress moving fromAIChE to Wiley is that I will miss working with myformer colleagues at AIChE (who became friends aswell as co-workers). In addition to Lois Anne, I haveworked over the years with Beth Shery Sisk, who hasserved as Associate Editor, and Karen Simpson, who inprior years worked as Manuscript Editor. Further up the

line was Mrs. Haeja Han, who was Publisher and Ex-ecutive Editor for AIChE. I shall miss all of them.

In addition to Environmental Progress, Wiley willalso publish Process Safety Progress and the AIChEJournal on behalf of the Institute. Wiley’s reputation forquality of publication of books and some 300 journalsis well known. I look forward to working with theirstaff, which will include some AIChE employees whohave joined Wiley.

Wiley brings new methods and opportunities for thepublication process, not the least of which will be theability, soon, to receive, review, and accept articleson-line. When accepted and edited, these articles willbe available on-line in HTML, as well as PDF, and withreferences that link to other published literature, ab-stracting and indexing services, etc. Both print andelectronic versions of Environmental Progress will beavailable to readers. Moreover, Wiley will put the com-plete file of Environmental Progress back issues on-line.

Changes are coming in content also. Mark Zappiof Mississippi State University has been appointedReview Article Editor. Dr. Zappi’s goal is to have oneenvironmental review article published in each issue.Four single topic special issues also are planned:Risk Analysis, Environmental Membranes, Sustain-ability, and Process Integration. I am pleased to an-nounce that both Robert W. Peters and Ashok Kumarhave agreed to stay on as Book Review Editor andSoftware Review Editor, respectively.

I enter this new era of Environment Progress with anoptimistic note. My pledge is to continue publishing ajournal of high quality that is of interest to practicingchemical/environmental engineers.

Reader comments and suggestions are solicited.

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