News
Oct 18, 2018
Carrier Receives $1.57M in Renewal of NIH Grant
ChE Professor Rebecca Carrier was awarded a four-year $1.57M renewal NIH grant for “Impact of lipids and food on oral compound absorption: mechanistic studies and modeling.” Abstract Source: NIH The overall […]
Oct 17, 2018
Changing the Way We Treat Cancer
Quad Technologies, which was co-founded by ChE Professor Shashi Murthy, Sean Kevlahan (PhD ’13), Adam Hatch (PhD ’14), and Brian Plouffe (PhD ’11), and recently acquired by Bio-Techne, has developed a material, called QuickGel, that can be used to isolate genetically engineered T-cells that would allow a patient’s immune system to target the cancer.
Oct 15, 2018
ChE Student Wins Best Oral Presentation Award at ICNANO 2018
1st-year Chemical Engineering PhD student Ada Vernet received an award for the Best Oral Presentation at the 3rd Baltic Conference Series: International Conference on Nanomaterials & Nanotechnology (ICNANO) 2018 for her research on “Synthesis and characterization of tellurium nanowire using both chemical and green routes and their comparison in terms of biocompatibility and anticancer properties”.
Oct 09, 2018
Prof. Landherr to deliver engineering education lectureship at UConn
ChE Associate Teaching Professor Lucas Landherr will be the inaugural speaker of the G. Michael Howard Engineering Education Lectureship, to be held at the University of Connecticut.
Oct 09, 2018
COE NeuroArt Winner
MBF Bioscience recently selected ChE PhD student Danielle Large as a NeuroArt winner and her work was featured on the cover image of the November 2018 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience Research.
Oct 04, 2018
ChE Co-op Student Technical Challenge Winner
ChE Student Nate McCrone, E’21, recently won the ChE Co-op Student Technical Challenge. Students submitted their stories/experiences to the Co-op team and the ChemE faculty voted on the best research/capstone […]
Sep 25, 2018
Women in Bioconjugate Chemistry
ChE Professor Debra Auguste was featured in the latest Virtual Issue of Bioconjugate Chemistry from ACS (American Chemical Society). The article is titled “Women in Bioconjugate Chemistry: Celebrating Women Scientists”. […]
Sep 21, 2018
NU ChE Graduate Student Publication in Collaboration with Wyss Institute/HMS
Research Scientist at the Wyss Institute and current ChE graduate student Daniel Wiegand’s research was featured in the ACS Synthetic Biology article “Establishing a Cell-Free Vibrio natriegens Expression System” for using super fold GFP as a read-out for tweaking a multitude of parameters in order to retain sustained protein expression in the cell-free reaction over a long period of time.