Honggang Cui named to AIMBE College of Fellows
March 25, 2019
The College of Fellows honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering and medicine research, practice, or education.
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Developing more flexible nanomaterials can make fuel cell cars cheaper
February 22, 2019
Scientists manipulate nanomaterials to make them a million times thinner than a strand of hair—dramatically increasing their reactivity.
Spaghetti structures with marshmallow mortar: Engineering hosts annual Tower of Power competition
February 22, 2019
National Engineers Week competition challenges students, alumni, and community to use their noodles.
Two ChemBE students receive Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards
January 9, 2019
Rebecca Grusby and Theresa Chen will present their work at DREAMS, an annual event at Hopkins that celebrates undergraduate research.
Johns Hopkins leads nation in research spending for 39th consecutive year
December 17, 2018
University spent record $2.562B in fiscal year 2017, up 5.4 percent from FY16.
Ten with Hopkins ties named to ‘Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list
November 28, 2018
The list, compiled by ‘Forbes,’ recognizes young people who have become leaders in their fields.
Konstantinos Konstantopoulos appointed the inaugural William H. Schwarz Professor
November 8, 2018
The William H. Schwarz Professorship was endowed through the generosity of Dr. Ronald J. Whittier in honor of his friend and mentor, Professor William H. Schwarz ’51 ’55 ’57, who was both an alumnus and an outstanding faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering.
Sharon Gerecht Receives Award to Advance Graft Technology to Treat CAD and CCD
October 10, 2018
Sharon Gerecht, Director and core faculty member at INBT, Kent Gordon Croft Investment Management Faculty Scholar, and professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was awarded funding by The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commissions for her project, “Swine Study of Patient-Specific Small-Diameter Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts for Arterial Conduits.” Established by the governor […]
Goffin leaves ChemBE; Ratanalert arrives
September 19, 2018
An Goffin, senior lecturer and associate director of undergraduate studies, has left the department to move to Connecticut with her family. Sakul Ratanalert joined ChemBE as a full-time lecturer Aug. 1.
ChemBE researchers win major NSF grant to build soft robots
September 7, 2018
An interdepartmental team of Johns Hopkins engineers has received a $2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to build and program tiny, soft robots. The robots are expected to respond autonomously to environmental and physiological cues, an important step toward building soft robots that could travel through human bodies or machines repairing infections or […]
Measure for Measure: Steps toward standardization in the field of cell mechanics
August 17, 2018
A cell’s properties—the way it moves, its shape, its texture, and its stiffness—have an enormous impact on human development, the immune response, and the progression of cancer. But researchers studying those cell mechanics often wind up with different results from their colleagues’, leading to confusion and delaying potential breakthroughs in cancer treatment and immunotherapy.
Bioengineers borrow from electronics industry to get stem cells to shape up
August 16, 2018
Using a technique called micropatterning, scientists discover cellular tension and pressure are key factors in stem cell growth and behavior.
Taking Computers to the Next Level: Rebecca Schulman Leads Team Designing New System that Borrows From Biology
July 17, 2018
If you built the largest, most powerful computer currently feasible, it would have about the same number of transistors as there are synapses in the brain of a 3-year-old child. It would also be slightly larger than a tennis court, and consume 106 times the power needed by the preschooler’s brain. All of which means […]
ChemBE undergrads spend their summer doing research in Belgium
July 12, 2018
Rayyan Gorashi (Gerecht Lab) and Ayon Mitra (Gracias Lab) travel to Belgium as part of the International Research Experience for Students Program, where they do collaborative research on microelectronics and nanoelectronics. Read more > >
ChemBE engineers awarded $1.9M grant to reduce engine emissions
June 1, 2018
They will work to produce a commercially viable exhaust-gas catalyst system that kicks in as soon as an engine is started.
ChemBE Acting Advisory Board Chair David Schmalzer ’64 Receives Heritage Award
May 24, 2018
The award was presented in recognition of Schmalzer’s long service to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Johns Hopkins University.
