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 […]
Advanced Science News reports on a first-of-its-kind multielectrode shell chip with self-folding electrodes that can wrap around shells developed by David Gracias and colleagues. Read more at Advanced Science News >>
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.
Chemical & Engineering News reports on shapeshifting polymers and their potential application in soft robotics and self-assembling medical devices. The work of David Gracias, Rebecca Schulman, and Thao (Vicky) Nguyen is mentioned.
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 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
Johns Hopkins University’s annual celebration of engineers’ contributions to society begins today and runs through Friday, Feb. 23 on the Homewood campus.
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 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 […]
Second-year undergrad Zachary Steinberg was studying chemical and biomolecular engineering.
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 […]
The MARCC’s 22,000 processors save researchers money they would otherwise spend building their own computing centers.
Hasini Jayatilaka, a postdoctoral fellow in the Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center, is featured on Academic Minute discussing a new insight into the way cancer behaves and what that means for future medications. Jayatilaka is an alumna of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
Award honors students nationwide in business, bioengineering, computer science, and energy science programs.
