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Feb 26, 2018

Abolhasani and Genzer Group Researchers Develop a ‘Green’ Technique to Boost Pharma Manufacturing Efficiency

About 70 percent of pharmaceuticals are manufactured using palladium-driven catalytic processes that are either fast or efficient – but not both. Collaborating researchers in the Abolhasani and Genzer research groups…

Feb 19, 2018

CBE Student Chapter Kicks Off the AIChE Video Challenge

In January, the Executive Student Committee (ESC) of AIChE introduced its “Show-and-Tell Challenge,” a video challenge in which an AIChE Student Chapter has one month to produce and upload a…

Feb 1, 2018

Professors Parsons, Dickey, Crook and Beisel in the News

Several important changes to our faculty were recently announced… First, Dean Martin-Vega has appointed Professor Gregory Parsons as Celanese Acetate Professor and Professor Michael Dickey as Alcoa Professor. Second, Dr.…

Jan 29, 2018

Jenna Meanor Receives the 2017 Fall Praxair TA Award

Graduate student Jenna Meanor is the recipient of the 2017 Fall Praxair Exceptional TA Award. Recipients are selected for both the fall and spring semesters, and presentation of the fall…

Jan 25, 2018

The 2018 Schoenborn Symposium was Outstanding

The 2018 Schoenborn Graduate Research Symposium was an outstanding success! The Symposium is divided into two sections. During the first section, senior-level PhD candidates make formal presentations about their research…

Dec 19, 2017

Velev Group Develops Programmable Microbots

Members of Professor Orlin Velev’s research group and their colleagues at Duke University have developed a way to assemble and pre-program tiny structures made from microscopic cubes – “microbot origami”…