News
- Gesse Roure (PhD ChemEngr'23) received the CEAS Oustanding Dissertation Award; his research explores tiny-scale flows, with applications in waste treatment, mineral recovery, medical diagnostics and targeted drug delivery.
- Ashish Srivastava and Katayoun Jamei received top fall 2023 honors from the College of Engineering and Applied Science.
- Under his NSF Career Award, Assistant Professor Wyatt Shields developed a "reverse science fair" in partnership with Science Discovery. Graduate students presented their research, and high school students served as the judges.
- Chatterjee group researchers have devised a method for microorganism counting that is up to 36 times faster than traditional approaches. This innovation reduces plastic usage by over 15-fold, significantly lowers costs and decreases the carbon footprint in biomedical research.
- New research from the Laboratory of Interfaces, Flow, and Electrokinetics helps explain how sharp patterns form on zebras, leopards, tropical fish and other creatures. Their findings could inform the development of new high-tech materials and drugs.
- Deb Renshaw, senior academic advisor for the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been honored with the Chancellor's Employee of the Year award. The award is presented every fall to Boulder staff members, recognizing
- Assistant Professors Kayla Sprenger and Ankur Gupta were selected for the prestigious AICHE “35 Under 35” award.
- A team led by ChBE Professor Hendrik Heinz won a $2 million National Science Foundation award to develop reliable predictive models for hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites, which have the potential to usher in more efficient and affordable solar energy.
- The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering continues to gain national recognition for the quality of its undergraduate school education, earning the No. 14 spot in the U.S. News and World Report's Best School rankings for chemical engineering among public institutions for 2024.
- Distinguished Professor Kristi Anseth was selected by the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs as the 2023 Outstanding Postdoc Mentor of the Year Award recipient.