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Feb 03, 2021
Gallaway Receives NSF CAREER Award for Safe and Inexpensive Batteries for the Electrical Grid
DiPietro Assistant Professor Joshua Gallaway, chemical engineering, was awarded a $400K NSF CAREER award for “Engineering electrochemical reversibility in disordered materials for high energy density batteries.”
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Jan 19, 2021
Woolston Received the Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award in Metabolic Engineering
ChE Assistant Professor Benjamin Woolston is the 2020 recipient of the Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award in Metabolic Engineering within the International Metabolic Engineering Society (IMES).
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Jan 11, 2021
Student Zach Rogers wins Second Alpha Fund Prototype Grant
Zach Rogers, a Chemical Engineering PhD student in the Bencherif Lab, was recently awarded the Alpha Fund Prototype Grant for his proposal, “Hypoxia-inducing cryogels for two-dimensional cell culture”.
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Jan 07, 2021
Bencherif Named 2021 BMES CMBE Rising Star
Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Sidi A. Bencherif has been named one of the 2021 Rising Stars by the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Special Interest Group (SIG) within the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).
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Jan 07, 2021
Niedre and Amiji Receive National Cancer Institute Award
Bioengineering Professor and Associate Chair Mark Niedre and Bouve/ChE Distinguished Professor Mansoor Amiji received a 2-year, $400K grant titled “Fluorescence Molecular In Vivo Liquid Biopsy of Circulating Tumor Cells” from the National Cancer Institute and National Institutes of Health.
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Dec 01, 2020
Chemical Engineering Students Compete in National AIChE ChemE Car Competition
At the national American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) virtual conference in November, the Northeastern student chapter took part in the ChemE Car competition by developing a car that runs on a chemical reaction that must carry a certain weight, and travel a specific distance.
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Nov 30, 2020
Chemical Engineering Students Compete in National AIChE K-12 STEM Showcase
At the national American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) virtual conference this month, chemical engineering students from the Northeastern student chapter of AIChE competed in a STEM module competition, highlighting their outreach efforts to K-12 students from across the country.
Nov 18, 2020
Hines and Eller Awarded Scranton Scholarships
Congratulations to chemical engineering student Julia Hines, E’21/ME’21 and bioengineering student Kerry Eller, E’21, who are recipients of Richard J. Scranton Scholarships.