News
Aug 10, 2020
Webster Receives Funding with Spanish Researchers to Develop Better Implants
ChE Professor Thomas Webster and Professor Yadir Torres Hernandez from the University of Seville, Spain; PI have secured funding from the Spanish Government (via the National Research program) for a project entitled “Titanium-based implants with adapted stiffness, biofunctionalized surface and pores filled with biodegradable, antibacterial and potential therapeutic polymers”.
Aug 05, 2020
Jones Awarded Grant to Support Research on “Enabling a Lab-on-a-Faucet”
ChE Assistant Professor A-Andrew D. Jones, III received a $10k grant titled “Enabling a Lab-On-A-Faucet” from the Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network of the Social Science Research Council with funds provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Aug 03, 2020
Willits Selected as a BMES Fellow
ChE Professor and Chair Rebecca Willits selected as a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Aug 03, 2020
Abigail Koppes Receives BMES Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award
ChE Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes won the Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Aug 03, 2020
Webster Working with European Commission to Develop Strategies to Make Products Enabled by Advanced Nanomaterials
ChE Professor Thomas Webster, Art Zafiropoulo Chair, is part of a team of groups of global researchers working as part of a grant from the European Commission entitled ‘SUNSHINE’: Safe and sUstainable by desigN Strategies for HIgh performance multicomponent NanomatErials’. The main goal of SUNSHINE is to develop and implement strategies to make products enabled […]
Jul 31, 2020
Landherr Named To Meeting Program Chair Team for 2021 AIChE Annual Meeting
Chemical Engineering Teaching Professor Lucas Landherr has been named the Co-Meeting Program Chair for the Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) for the national conference to be held in November 2021 in Boston.
Jul 31, 2020
ChE PhD Student Publishes Book About the Working Relationship Between Scientists and Government
ChE PhD student Vyshnavi Karra just published a book entitled “Necessary Symbiosis: What Happens When Science and Government Work Together (and When They Don’t)” that examines the intersection of science and government and how that relationship has evolved over the years.
Jul 30, 2020
Designing the Most Effective Face Masks
CEE Associate Professor Loretta Fernandez and Assistant Professor Amy Mueller are examining the best fit, while ChE Associate Professor Steve Lustig is determining the best combinations of materials for the most effective mask to protect against COVID-19.