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.
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ChemBE Acting Advisory Board Chair David Schmalzer ’64 Receives Heritage Award
May 24, 2018
David Schmalzer ’64, acting chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering’s External Advisory Board, was awarded the Johns Hopkins University Heritage Award earlier this month by T.E. “Ed” Schlesinger, the Whiting School of Engineering’s Benjamin T. Rome Dean. The award was presented in recognition of Schmalzer’s long service to the department and the university. […]
ChemBE seniors spotlighted in The Hub for their fresh take on acne
May 22, 2018
ChemBE seniors and BFFs Ariana Sherman, Joan Golding, and Anna Garcia developed a fresh twist on the age-old problem of pimples in their Product Design class. Read about their work in The Hub.
PhD candidate Eugenia Volkova awarded APL Graduate Fellowship
May 18, 2018
Eugenia Volkova, PhD candidate in the Gerecht Lab, has been awarded an Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) Graduate Fellowship. Volkova studies how the physical properties of ECM-mimicking hydrogels contribute to changes in sarcoma cell migration phenotype. She is an INBT T32 Nanotechnology for Cancer Research Fellow. APL Graduate Fellowships are available to Johns Hopkins graduate students […]
Senior lecturer Carmo Pereira wins prestigious catalysis award
May 16, 2018
Carmo Pereira, senior lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded the 2018 Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Award. This prestigious award recognizes an outstanding member of the catalysis community who has made significant scientific, technological, or organizational leadership contributions to the advancement of catalysis. Pereira, who joined the department in 2015, […]
Students show off diverse, creative solutions to engineering problems at annual Design Day
May 7, 2018
A blood-clotting “super gel.” A mobile app for heart attack recovery. A pizza-delivering drone. A souped-up walker for pediatric ICU patients. Johns Hopkins engineering students have plenty to show off on Tuesday at the annual Design Day.
Interim ChemBE Chair Sean Sun among three Hopkins researchers to receive $250K grants from Schmidt Sciences
May 1, 2018
Schmidt Sciences Nascent Innovation Grants support projects that use data science and technology in innovative ways.
ChemBE doctoral students honored by the NSF
April 4, 2018
Natalia Majewska, second-year PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has won a 2018 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. ChemBE doctoral candidates PJ Krohl and Josh DiGiacomo won honorable mentions, and alum Weitong Chen (BS ’15) was named a Fellow. Majewska, a member of Michael Betenbaugh’s lab, studies glycosylation in Chinese […]
Schulman and Gracias research featured in NEJM
March 5, 2018
Research by Rebecca Schulman and David Gracias on using DNA to trigger hydrogels to change shape is featured in “Clinical Implications of Basic Research” in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Sweet science: ChemBE senior Anna Deberry competes in NSBE gumdrop bridge contest
February 23, 2018
At the event, five teams of two students loaded their plates and munched happily away as they competed to build the strongest possible 8-to-9-inch miniature bridges out of colorful, sugary gumdrops and wooden toothpicks in 30 minutes.
ChemBE senior Abraham Gomez member of winning Tower of Power team
February 21, 2018
ChemBE senior Abraham Gomez and his teammates constructed the winning pasta-and-candy tower in yesterday’s Tower of Power competition, part of National Engineers Week at JHU. Read more
WSE celebrates 2018 National Engineers Week
February 16, 2018
Johns Hopkins University’s annual celebration of engineers’ contributions to society begins today and runs through Friday, Feb. 23 on the Homewood campus.
Rong Li leads team of cancer researchers shortlisted for £20 million award
February 13, 2018
An international team led by Johns Hopkins researcher Rong Li, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and cell biology, was selected as one of ten finalists in the second round of Cancer Research UK’s £20 million Grand Challenge. “We are immensely proud of this recognition of Rong Li’s innovative research,” says interim ChemBE […]
ChemBE External Advisory Board Member Elected to the NAE
February 8, 2018
ChemBE External Advisory Board member Eleftherios Terry Papoutsakis was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Papoutsakis is the Eugene DuPont Chair of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark; where he is also affiliated with the Delaware Biotechnology Institute. Election to the NAE is among the highest […]
ChemBE student among 12 killed in Costa Rica plane crash
January 2, 2018
Second-year undergrad Zachary Steinberg was studying chemical and biomolecular engineering.
David Gracias receives the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel award
December 1, 2017
David Gracias has received the Bessel award from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany. The award is named after the renowned astronomer, scientist and mathematician Friedrich Bessel. The award winners are selected based on their outstanding research record and expectations of future promise in continuing to produce cutting-edge achievements which will have a seminal influence on […]
