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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jul 16, 2020
Cryopreservation of Cardiac Autonomic Neurons
ChE Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes and Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes’ research on “Cryopreservation and functional analysis of cardiac autonomic neurons” was published in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods.
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Jul 08, 2020
Developing of Rechargeable Battery Systems Using Manganese Dioxide
ChE Assistant Professor Joshua Gallaway has a new paper in Journal of The Electrochemical Society called “Bismuth Enables the Formation of Disordered Birnessite in Rechargeable Alkaline Batteries” authored by Postdoctoral Research Associate Andrea Bruck.
Jul 01, 2020
COE Presents at the 2020 ASEE’S Virtual Conference
College of Engineering faculty, staff, and students, published and presented virtual papers at the American Society for Engineering Education – Virtual National conference.