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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…

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…

Paulette Clancy, head of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), chemical engineering’s professional society.

Please join in congratulating Dr. David Gracias for being named as an 2021 APS Fellow. Such Fellows are recognized for having “made advances in physics through original research and publication or made significant innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology.” His citation reads “For the elucidation of fundamental concepts and the…

Two ChemBE Hopkins students, Derek van Dyke and Philippe Baron have won ARCS Foundation Metropolitan Washington Chapter (MWC) Scholar awards for 2021 for their contributions to advance science. ARCS/MWC supports five top area universities: JHU, GW, Georgetown, U. Va and U.MD. They have provided over $7.6 million in over 600 Scholar awards since their founding.…

Samuel W. Schaffter (PhD JHU Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Schulman group, 2020) has received the 2021 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize, which recognizes exceptional early-career achievement by a researcher who has not yet accepted a tenure-track position. Dr. Schaffter received a $4000 prize and gave a public (virtual) lecture to more than 100 researchers at…

David Gracias, professor and director of PhD studies in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), effective January 1, 2021. The IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership that is reserved for those who have made outstanding contributions to IEEE…

Her lab's inventions centered around controlling stem cell fate and new biomaterials to induce healing and regeneration.

The Brody Faculty Scholar award was established by Dr. Robert Seder, University trustee, and Ms. Deborah L. Harmon in 2008 in honor of Dr. William Brody’s contributions to the University and to support the finest young faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Faculty Scholars hold a five-year appointment, and the recipient will receive $20,000…

They are among three student-mentor pairs to win the prestigious award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute