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The Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award conferred by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) is a competitive research award to provide seed money for junior faculty members. Out of the 155 applicants, there were 41 awardees including Brandon Bukowski who will use the funding to investigate how polar environments in nanoporous zeolites affect catalytic…

It is with great pleasure that I write to share with you the news that Jamie Spangler, the William R. Brody Faculty Scholar and assistant professor in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been chosen by the Maryland Academy of Sciences to receive the Maryland Outstanding Young Engineer Award. Conferred…

Olek Pisera (BS ChemBE) won a highly selective Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship which honors the academic achievements of new Americans.  Olek was a talented undergraduate researcher in the Ostermeier lab and is now a PhD student studying synthetic biology. Nisita Dutta (BS and MS ChemBE) received a prestigious Gates-Cambridge Scholarship allowing her to complete…

First-year ChemBE PhD student, Nikhil Thota, was named as a finalist in JHU's PHutures first "Empower Your Pitch" communications competition.

This award is given to students who have "demonstrated excellence and talent in instructing undergraduates."

This fellowship “recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines” and is a mark of distinction for these students.

Johns Hopkins University researchers say they have developed a simple sensor that could quickly and accurately detect the virus that causes COVID-19 in saliva.

We've come a long way, but...  ...there's still work to be done to achieve gender equity 

Congratulations to Xin (Jason) Zhang on being chosen as a recipient of a Summer PURA award! The funding will allow Jason to continue a project started under and developed by mentor Tanya Berry to formulate the synthesis and properties of novel materials with spintronics applications, and incorporate both theory and experiment through the Bukowski and…

A Localized Enantioselective Catalytic Site on Short DNA Sequences and Their Amphiphiles

We are proud to announce that ChemeBE faculty member, Dr. Jamie is a recipient of NSF’s “most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty… [serving] as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.”  Her CAREER project is titled “Engineered multi-specific antibodies to interrogate and…

Johns Hopkins University’s Diversity Leadership Council recently honored the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering with a Diversity Recognition Award. The award recognizes the department’s overall commitment to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and welcoming environment for faculty, staff, and students, as well as for their efforts to create transparent reporting on the department’s progress in…