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Assistant Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor Ankur Gupta received a $517,000, 5-year CAREER award to optimize performance of capacitive desalination and supercapacitor technologies. His research for the two disparate processes involves a technical commonality: porous electrodes to maximize performance.

Professor Robert H. Davis is known throughout ���������� Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science as an outstanding leader for his 25-year tenure as the Chemical and Biological Engineering department chair and then the dean of the college. Davis recently added another accolade to his extensive list of accomplishments: Distinguished Professor, the highest honor bestowed upon tenured faculty across the University of Colorado’s four campuses.

Engineers at ���������� Boulder have designed a new, rubber-like film that can leap high into the air like a grasshopper—all on its own and without needing outside intervention. Just heat it up and watch it jump! The researchers describe their achievement Jan. 18 in the journal Science Advances. They say that similar materials could one day help embody “soft robots” (those that don’t need gears or other hard components to move) to leap or lift.

Biosynthesis and Mechanistic Investigation of Unusual Synthons in Natural Products Speaker:  Antonio Del Rio Flores, University of California, Berkeley Host:  Jerome Fox  Tuesday, February 21, 2023 – 2:45pm

Carolyn Mills, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in the lab of Professor Danielle Tullman-Ercek.

Sophia Haussener, associate professor of the Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering École Polytechnique Fédéralede Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland, will review the state of the art of photoelectrochemical and thermochemical solar fuel processing approaches and comment on their specific challenges.

As a child, Jeffrey Miller struggled with reading and paying attention in school due to dyslexia and ADHD. His persistence paid off: Miller will receive a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from ���������� Boulder in December. He's also the recipient of the 2022 Perseverance Award from the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

Four researchers from the Weimer Research Group received poster contest awards at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers annual meeting, this year held in Phoenix, Nov. 11-14.  Alan Weimer, Melvin E. and Virginia M. Clark

Vivian Feig, PhD, is a Schmidt Science Fellow and postdoctoral researcher in the labs of Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso and Professor Robert Langer at MIT and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In this talk, Feig will show how soft matter can enable bio-interfacing materials to circumvent the tradeoff between dynamism and functionality for two particularly difficult use cases: bio-electronics and load-bearing materials.

In this talk, Andrew Rosen, Miller Research Fellow, will discuss how quantum chemistry, high-throughput computing and machine learning can help guide experiments and accelerate the discovery of novel materials to address a variety of global challenges relevant to the field of chemical engineering.