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Jul 31, 2013

The past, present, and future of nanomedicine

Each year, nearly $18 bil­lion is spent on nanomed­i­cine research. But since the field’s incep­tion more than a decade ago, little of that research, though promising, has been suc­cess­fully trans­lated […]

Chemical Engineering

Jul 26, 2013

Young scholars get a taste for science in the summer

Twenty-​​four high school stu­dents lis­tened intently as civil and envi­ron­mental engi­neering assis­tant pro­fessor Matthew Eck­elman pre­sented his research on mod­eling the energy inputs and out­puts of com­mer­cial prod­ucts and processes. At the […]

Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 19, 2013

Webster Selected Fellow

Chemical Engineering Professor and Chair of Department Thomas Webster was selected as a fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society and his Nanomedicine Lab was featured by EBERS. EBERS Medical Technology SL is […]

Chemical Engineering

Jun 11, 2013

Rizvi Wins Intel Scholarship

Congratulations to Noreen Rizvi, a Chemical Engineering PhD student who won a 2013 Intel Corporation scholarship from the Society of Women Engineers, for her outstanding academic achievement as well as strong engineering […]

Chemical Engineering

Jun 01, 2013

New Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Adam Ekenseair

Assistant ProfessorDr. Adam Ekenseair joined the Department of Chemical Engineering faculty in the summer of 2013. He grew up in Northwest Arkansas and received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at […]

Chemical Engineering

Jun 01, 2013

New Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Eno Ebong

Assistant ProfessorDr. Eno Ebong joined the Department of Chemical Engineering in the summer of 2013 as an assistant professor. Both the university-wide support system for the faculty and students, and […]

Chemical Engineering

May 16, 2013

How nanotechnology could keep your heart healthy

Since the heart is such a del­i­cate and crit­ical organ, clin­i­cians usu­ally opt not to inter­vene with the dead cells that remain after a heart attack or car­diac dis­ease. “But […]

Chemical Engineering

May 10, 2013

A silky spin on protective armor

At seven times the tough­ness of Kevlar, a silk pro­duced by the Caerostris dar­wini spider of Mada­gascar is more robust than any other material—synthetic or nat­ural. Most spider silks are about two […]

Chemical Engineering