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CBE Student Chapter Kicks Off the AIChE Video Challenge
In January, the Executive Student Committee (ESC) of AIChE introduced its “Show-and-Tell Challenge,” a video challenge in which an AIChE Student Chapter has one month to produce and upload a short video about an interesting aspect of their Student Chapter, […]
Professors Parsons, Dickey, Crook and Beisel in the News
Several important changes to our faculty were recently announced… First, Dean Martin-Vega has appointed Professor Gregory Parsons as Celanese Acetate Professor and Professor Michael Dickey as Alcoa Professor. Second, Dr. Nathan Crook has joined the department with the rank of […]
Jenna Meanor Receives the 2017 Fall Praxair TA Award
Graduate student Jenna Meanor is the recipient of the 2017 Fall Praxair Exceptional TA Award. Recipients are selected for both the fall and spring semesters, and presentation of the fall Award is an important part of the Schoenborn Graduate Research […]
The 2018 Schoenborn Symposium was Outstanding
The 2018 Schoenborn Graduate Research Symposium was an outstanding success! The Symposium is divided into two sections. During the first section, senior-level PhD candidates make formal presentations about their research and the associated results. During the second section, mid-level PhD […]
Velev Group Develops Programmable Microbots
Members of Professor Orlin Velev’s research group and their colleagues at Duke University have developed a way to assemble and pre-program tiny structures made from microscopic cubes – “microbot origami” – that change their shape when actuated by a magnetic […]
CBE Honors Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients – 2017
On December 8, 2017, the department hosted a luncheon to honor four of our graduates with CBE Distinguished Alumni Awards and one graduate with a CBE Distinguished Young Alumni Award. Established in 2016, the CBE Distinguished Alumni Award and the […]
Senior Kobi Felton Receives a 2018 Marshall Scholarship
Senior Kobi Felton has been awarded a prestigious 2018 Marshall Scholarship. A participant in the Chemical Engineering Honors Concentration with a minor in Spanish, Kobi is a Park Scholar and a University Scholar. He has served as President of the […]
Amber Hubbard and Dr. Spontak Win Research Image Awards
Anyone who says chemical engineers are left brain thinkers who lack right brain creativity has it wrong! Case in point are CBE graduate student Amber Hubbard and Dr. Richard Spontak, recent contest winners for their research-related photographic art… In 2016, […]
Abolhasani Group Advances Understanding of Nanocrystal Synthesis
Professor Milad Abolhasani and his research group have developed a device that allows users to collect 100 times more information per day from microfluidic devices, devices that manipulate fluids at the micron-scale, as compared to the previous industry standard. The […]
Dr. Velev Receives the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Extension
Dr. Orlin Velev, the INVISTA Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been selected as the 33rd recipient of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Extension. The Award is the most prestigious award […]