News
Aug 24, 2011
Mapping the Human Genome
ChE Professor Elizabeth Podlaha-Murphy, working with LSU, was awarded a $276K grant to create a device using nanowires that will screen RNA and DNA sequences as part of NIH’s $1000 Genome Project.
Aug 15, 2011
Studying a Cell at a Time
ChE Assistant Professor Edgar Goluch was awarded a $174K NSF grant to use nanofluidic electrochemical detection and optics as an improved method for studying individual bacterial cells.
Apr 19, 2011
Tracking Cancerous Cell Scatter
ChE Associate Professor Anand Asthagiri has received a $270K NIH grant to generate a quantitative analysis of how epithelial cells scatter during cancer development.
Apr 06, 2011
ECM Stiffness Regulates Growth
ChE Associate Professor Anand Asthagiri was featured in the latest issue of the Journal of Cell Science describing how physical changes in the cellular microenvironment could play a role in cancer progression.
Apr 06, 2011
FY12 TIER 1 Award Recipients
28 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY12 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 18 different research projects.
Mar 29, 2011
Congratulations Lauren Gianino
Lauren Gianino, a senior in Chemical Engineering and the Tau Beta Pi vice-president elect for '11-'12, won a TBP scholarship for $2000 based on high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession.
Feb 16, 2011
Chory Chosen as a Pioneering Leader
Emma Chory, ChE’12, has been selected as a Steamboat Scholar. The summer program provides talented undergrads prestigious internships with Grant Partners to cultivate their leadership skills.
Feb 07, 2011
Carrier Awarded $230K Grant
ChE Assistant Professor Rebecca Carrier received a $230K grant from NIH to development a natural matrix-based cell delivery vehicle for delivery of RPCs to the subretinal space to promote retinal regeneration.