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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

The Spangler lab leverages cutting-edge technologies in molecular design, structural biology, and immunology to elucidate the determinants of protein activity in order to inform targeted therapeutic development. We are particularly interested in engineering natural proteins such as growth factors, cytokines, and antibodies, to bias the immune response for targeted disease treatment. Building on biophysical insights…

The 2020 inductees for the Johns Hopkins University Chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society include two ChemBE students—Bria Macklin and Phillip Dorsey. The Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society was co-founded in 2005 by Yale University and Howard University. Johns Hopkins University was inducted as an institutional member in April 2018. Edward…

ChemBE is proud to announce the election of Professor Yannis Kevrekidis to the National Academy of Engineering; the formal conferral will be held on October 4-5, 2020. This career-defining honor celebrates his leadership in machine learning and in the intricacies of dynamical behavior over a broad set of processes, physico-chemical as well as biological processes.…

This was a bumper year for Elenora Muly award winners in 2019, selected for their excellence in undergraduate research. These awards were made possible by a generous gift from the Muly family. Nine awards were made to support research by students in seven research groups, covering a rich array of exciting projects: Tineer Ahmed and…