Paulette Clancy joined ChemBE as Department Head and professor Aug. 1. A specialist in computational materials science, she comes to Johns Hopkins from Cornell University, where she served as the Samuel W. and M. Diane Bodman Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Emerita and the inaugural director of the Cornell Institute for Computational Science and […]
Sakul Ratanalert will join ChemBE as a full-time lecturer Aug. 1. Ratanalert, who earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Chemical Engineering in 2018 under the supervision of Mark Bathe and Gregory Rutledge, focuses his research on DNA origami. In this field of nanotechnology, DNA is used not as genetic material […]
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 […]
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 > >
They will work to produce a commercially viable exhaust-gas catalyst system that kicks in as soon as an engine is started.
David Schmalzer, BS ’64, MS ‘65, and acting chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering’s External Advisory Board, was awarded the Johns Hopkins University Heritage Award in May 2018 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 […]
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.
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 […]
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, […]
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.
Schmidt Sciences Nascent Innovation Grants support projects that use data science and technology in innovative ways.
Rebecca Schulman, who joined the department in 2011, has been promoted to associate professor with tenure. The Schulman group designs intelligent materials and devices using techniques from DNA nanotechnology. The goal of the group is to understand how to build complex chemical systems for autonomous self-assembly, pattern formation, and detection and response. Major themes include […]
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.
