News
- ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ is ramping up its ability to conduct COVID-19 monitoring analyses by enlisting volunteer graduate students and postdocs across campus, including several from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
- Assistant Professor Adam Holewinski and Associate Professor Wilson Smith have been selected as Scialog Fellows to participate in the 2020 Scialog: Negative Emissions Science initiative, an effort to identify bottlenecks in research and develop ways to foster breakthroughs in the field.
- Department researchers are heading back to work under strict safety guidelines.
- Mark Strobel (MChemEngr'79) has made a big impact as a researcher and innovator at 3M in the past several decades. This spring, the College of Engineering and Applied Science honored him with a Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award for Industry & Commerce, recognizing this work in industry as an alumnus.
- The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA) is excited to announce the 2021 recipients of the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Diversity: Mike Gil (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), René Kissell (School of Education), Sara Sanchez (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences), and Thaiesha Wright (Chemical and Biological Engineering).
- The Open Force Field Initiative received millions in NIH funding to build open source infrastructure to assist researchers tackling molecular design problems.
- Samuel Hoff of the Heinz lab will study in Paris via the prestigious Chateaubriand Fellowship.
- The Young Scholars Summer Research Program went remote for 2020, but the students have been up to the challenge.
- Researchers have found a new way of understanding the vaporization behavior of mixtures.
- The brutal death of George Floyd in Minneapolis this past week has left me and much of the nation deeply troubled and saddened. Although we as a department and university are committed to our ideals of equality and edifying others through education and service, we are confronted with the fact that Black people and people of color in this country experience bias and discrimination.