News
Jan 18, 2018
Annabi Awarded 2nd NIH R01 Grant
ChE Assistant Professor Nasim Annabi received her second R01 grant ($3.1M) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Engineering highly elastic surgical sealants with hemostatic properties”.
Jan 15, 2018
Mathworks TA office hours for Spring 2018
Happy New Year and welcome to the Spring 2018 semester! My name is Mohammadreza Alimadadi and I will continue working as the MathWorks Teaching Assistant during Spring 2018 semester. As before, I try to provide on-campus help and mentoring concerning MathWorks products. I’d like to thank all the people who stopped by my office hours […]
Jan 12, 2018
Join Enabling Engineering!
Would you like to use your engineering skills to make a difference in a disabled person’s life? Would you like to get technical design experience while connecting with students and faculty? If so, please consider joining the Enabling Engineering Student Group. Enabling Engineering is a student group that designs and builds low-cost devices to improve […]
Dec 18, 2017
Fenniri Selected as SPIE Conference Co-Chair
ChE Professor Hicham Fenniri was selected as the SPIE Optics + Photonics 2018 Conference Co-Chair.
Dec 15, 2017
Ahmed Wins Advanced Research/Creative Endeavor Award
Bioengineering student Minhal Ahmed ’19 was awarded the Undergraduate Advanced Research/Creative Endeavor Award for his research project entitled, “The Gut-Brain-Axis: Exploring the Interface Between Enteroendocrine Cells and the Enteric Nervous System”.
Dec 12, 2017
Webster Selected as NAI Fellow
Professor and ChE Department Chair Thomas Webster was selected by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) as an NAI Fellow.
Dec 06, 2017
Puzan's Image Featured on Cover of Journal of Neuroscience Research
The work of ChE PhD student Marissa Puzan '19 and Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes is featured on the January 2018 cover of the Journal of Neuroscience Research. The image shows an activated enteric human enteric glial cell. The cell was incorporated into in vitro systems for studying enteric epithelial interactions. The image was produced as part of […]
Dec 04, 2017
ChE Professors Win NIH Trailblazer New/Early Career Investigator Award
ChE Assistant Professors Abigail Koppes and Ryan Koppes were awarded a $632K NIH grant to develop a microfluidic model of the ‘brain-in-the-gut’. The grant is a three-year Trailblazer New/Early Career Investigator R21 award with the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.