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Mar 18, 2019
Bencherif Receives KAU Grant
Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Sidi Bencherif recently received the King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology Award for his project entitled “Biomaterials for Wound Healing and Diabetic Ulcer Treatment”.
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Mar 01, 2019
Fenniri and Webster Award Patent
ChE Professor & Chair Thomas Webster and Professor Hicham Fenniri received a patent entitled “Nanotubes and Compositions Thereof”, which describes their work to develop novel self-assembled materials for tissue engineering applications.
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Feb 28, 2019
AAAS Student E-Poster Honorable Mention
ChE PhD Student Ada Vernet Crua recently won an Honorable Mention in the Medicine and Public Health category during the 2019 AAAS Student E-Poster Competition. Her poster will be published in the next issue of Science journal.
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Feb 26, 2019
2019 Goldwater Scholarship Nominees
Bioengineering student Erica Wagner, E’20, and Chemical Engineering student Gavin Winter, E’20, were two of four students nominated for the Barry Goldwater Scholarship by Northeastern University.
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Feb 25, 2019
Webster Start-Up Accomplishment
Nanovis, one of Chemical Engineering Professor & Chair Tom Webster’s start-up companies, was recently recognized by Global Health & Pharma Magazine as the Best Nanotechnology Driven Implant Company, 2018.
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Feb 21, 2019
West's Research Makes the Cover the Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry
The article “Kinetic solvent effects in organic reactions” by ChE Associate Professor Richard West’s group recently made the cover of the March 2019 Issue of the Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry.
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Feb 21, 2019
Serving as an US Air Force Intelligence Officer
Evelyn Soon, who will graduate this spring with a BS in Chemical Engineering and an MS in Engineering Management, will be serving as an intelligence officer for the United States Air Force once she gets called to active duty after graduation.
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Feb 19, 2019
ChE Student Headed to Nation’s Cup!
ChE student Kirsty Haley, E’21, will compete at the Figure Skating World Championship (Nation’s Cup) in France in April.