The 2020 inductees for the Johns Hopkins University Chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society have been announced and include two ChemBE students—Bria Macklin and Phillip Dorsey. The Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society was co-founded in 2005 by Yale University and Howard University. Johns Hopkins University was inducted as an institutional member […]
A team of JHU graduate students, including a ChemBE PhD student, Kunal Dani, competed in a business case study competition at Yale last weekend (2/21-2). His team explored how to develop a licensing and launch strategy for a novel gene therapy while concurrently evaluating the profitability of that specific technology in the Multiple Sclerosis therapeutic market. […]
Philip Dorsey, a Ph.D. student in Rebecca Schulman’s group in ChemBE won 1st place in the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Poster competition at this year’s AIChE. In Phil’s poster, entitled “DNA Attractor Patterns,” he shows how systems of molecules can collectively create and heal a chemical pattern over length scales of hundreds of microns, a […]
ChemBE is proud to announce the election of Professor Yannis Kevrekidis to the National Academy of Engineering; the formal conferral will be held on October 4-5, 2020. This career-defining honor celebrates his leadership in machine learning and in the intricacies of dynamical behavior over a broad set of processes, physico-chemical as well as biological processes. More […]
The deadline for applications to the Master of Science and Engineering program has been extended to March 31 2020. **Student Applicants from China: If you weren’t able to take your English test for TOEFLor GRE due to the coronavirus outbreak, don’t worry. We will continue to accept and review applications. Applicants can be admitted on a […]
This was a bumper year for Elenora Muly award winners in 2019, selected for their excellence in undergraduate research. These awards were made possible by a generous gift from the Muly family. Nine awards were made to support research by students in seven research groups, covering a rich array of exciting projects: Tineer Ahmed and […]
This honor recognizes diverse accomplishments, including pioneering research, leadership within a given field, teaching and mentoring, fostering collaborations, and advancing public understanding of science.
Meet Rami Chakroun, fifth year PhD candidate at INBT and in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department. This Hopkins engineer is using nanotechnology to develop a biodegradable hydrogel, a highly dense network of nanofibers, to treat glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer that grows and spreads rapidly. The primary treatment for most patients with glioblastoma is […]
The Kokkoli group has designed an aptamer-amphiphile and used it to decorate the surface of a liquid crystal. The biosensor detected beta-lactoglobulin, a major allergen from cow’s milk, at 0.18 ppm, thus demonstrating that it has the potential to be used for the fast and label-free detection of beta-lactoglobulin in food processing facilities. This […]
Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Division Award in Chemical Engineering
Senior Louisa Kishton (who has over 1,000 digs and 1,000 kills) in volleyball, senior Kristen Nixon and sophomore Rachel Jackson in soccer. (check out Twitter and JHU HUB) And congrats to senior Connor Jacobs who was named to the All-Centennial Conference Soccer Team. […]
Two ChemBE seniors, Katie Smith and Riya Gupta, are, in their own words, “passionate about sustainability in the food system.” They were chosen to present in the AASHE conference (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) in October in Spokane, Washington. The workshop focused on “Sustaining Local Producers Through University Purchasing” and highlighted their research as interns […]
Our ChemBE team took first place in the “ChemE Jeopardy” competition at the 2019 AIChE Regional conference. This competition tests students’ knowledge of undergraduate chemical engineering coursework. Our team emerged as the champion school this year for our region and will move on to the annual competition in Orlando in November. Our second ChemBE team […]
We had a very strong cadre of NSF Grad Fellowship winners (3) and honorable mentions (2) this year: Congratulations to Andrea Kraetz (Tsapatsis lab), Maya Monroe (Cui lab), Huilin Yang (Spangler lab), Dominick Salerno (Sofou lab), and Seth Ludwig (Spangler lab). pictured: Maya Monroe and Huilin Yang
Dear Alumni, Friends, and Students: As we move towards the holiday season, it seems like a perfect time to reflect on the past year’s accomplishments. This is a very special letter for me, since it completes my first year at Hopkins and the first year as the inaugural Department Head. It has been an exciting […]
Topic: Therapeutic Strategies via Genome Engineering: New Approaches and New Challenges The recent advent of RNA-guided effectors derived from clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)–CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems have dramatically transformed our ability to engineer the genomes of diverse organisms. As unique factors capable of co-localizing RNA, DNA, and protein, tools and techniques based on […]
