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Qi Huang, a member of Professor David Gracias’ lab, received the AIChE’s top graduate student award in the area of carbon nanomaterials for his talk, “Stimuli Responsive Self-Folding 3D Graphene Architectures.” He delivered the talk at the Nanoscale Science & Engineering Forum (NSEF) at the AIChE’s 2021 annual meeting. “My work suggests a comprehensive framework…

While the 19th Amendment barred states from denying voting rights based on sex, it failed to address the broad disenfranchisement of large numbers of Americans-most notably Black Americans. The Gender and Racial Justice Scholars Awards awards will support student research studying structural inequalities related to gender and race to help us understand our history and…

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.…

This year’s “class’ of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships contained a record number of six students from the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. These NSF Fellowships are selected for their outstanding record as a young researcher in STEM fields. Beyond the prestige of these awards, the financial support allows the winners greater freedom…

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…

On February 24, the JHU chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers held a student-professional-inclusive discussion focusing on racial diversity and inclusion in the workplace. The speaking panel featured Charles Ndiaye and Damini Agarwal, two WSE alumni now working in industry who were able to give great insight on topics of profession diversity, both…

This project is a collaboration between Dr. Vicky Nguyen’s lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Dr. Mostafa Borahay’s group in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at JHMI. The overall goal is to understand if the drug simvastatin is effective at reducing the stiffness of uterine fibroid tissue. Manasi’s role in this project…

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

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…

Philip Dorsey, a Ph.D. student in Rebecca Schulman’s group in ChemBE won 1st place in the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Poster competition at this year’s AIChE. In Phil’s poster, entitled “DNA Attractor Patterns,” he shows how systems of molecules can collectively create and heal a chemical pattern over length scales of hundreds of microns, a…

Meet Rami Chakroun, fifth year PhD candidate at INBT and in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department. This Hopkins engineer is using nanotechnology to develop a biodegradable hydrogel, a highly dense network of nanofibers, to treat glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer that grows and spreads rapidly. The primary treatment for most patients with glioblastoma is…

Meet Eugenia Volkova, PhD candidate at the INBT and the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering. This Hopkins engineer is studying cancer metastasis and sarcoma. With the help of her mentors, Sharon Gerecht and Zhiyong Xia, Eugenia is looking at how changes in the extracellular matrix in cancer cells…