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Jul 20, 2023
Fall 2023 Spark Fund Awardees
MIE Associate Professor Randal Erb, ChE/BioE Associate Professor Eno Ebong, ChE Professor Rebecca Carrier, and MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng are recipients of the Fall 2023 Spark Fund Awards.
Jul 20, 2023
Advanced Electrochemical Sensors for Early Disease Detection
ECE Professor Nian X. Sun and ChE Associate Teaching Professor Adam Ekenseair were awarded a patent for “Molecularly-imprinted electrochemical sensors.”
Jul 06, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Damilola Daramola
Damilola Daramola joins the Chemical Engineering department in July 2023 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Jun 12, 2023
Why Comics and Graphic Novels Like ‘Maus’ are Effective Teaching Tools
ChE Teaching Professor Luke Landherr creates STEM comics that effectively engage students and improve their understanding of complex concepts. At the Boston Kids Comics Fest held at the Curry Student Center, he promoted his engineering education research group, Science The World, home to dozens of comics covering data analysis, gene therapy, refrigeration cycles, momentum transfer, and other complex topics.
Jun 01, 2023
Lab Experiences Lead to Co-op Work in Switzerland
Gwyneth McNamara, E’24, chemical engineering and biochemistry, has gained extensive laboratory experience working co-ops at two Cambridge, Massachusetts pharmaceutical companies. She is now applying that experience, along with her engineering skills, in a third co-op at a university lab in Winterthur, Switzerland.
May 24, 2023
A First Step to Designing Better Solid-State Batteries
ChE DiPietro Assistant Professor Joshua Gallaway was featured in the EurekAlert article “A first step to designing better solid-state batteries.”
May 08, 2023
Lustig Issued Seven Patents for New Kevlar® EXO™ Product by DuPont
Steve Lustig, associate professor of chemical engineering, was a major contributor to a new product by DuPont called Kevlar® EXO™, a novel, ultra-high-performance copolymer that offers added strength and resilience. Through this collaborative research, Lustig has been issued seven patents for his technology.
May 04, 2023
2023 Engineering Departmental Co-op Awardees
The 10th Annual Departmental Co-op Awards were held on May 8, 2023, to celebrate the exemplary work of a select group of undergraduate and graduate students who have shown great promise and intellectual fortitude throughout their co-op experience. This year’s recipients were: Catherine Eng, Bioengineering, E’23 Co-op: Selux Diagnostics, Charlestown, MA Sage Product Development, Foxborough, […]