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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

As fourth-year PhD candidate Michael Manto was completing his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering at Lehigh University, Johns Hopkins was not on his PhD radar because he mistakenly believed the…

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…

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…

A funny thing happened when Luis Rodriguez ‘18 was asked about his favorite experience in the ChemBE department. His answer, which came as a surprise even to him, was… homework.…