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Ten graduate students and one post doctoral researcher were recognized in 2024 with Chemical and Biological Engineering Department awards.

Throughout college and in the eight years since graduation, Ben Mousseau (ChemBio’16) has felt grateful for the mentors who guided him. Now a global supply manager at Tesla, Mousseau has been giving back to CU Boulder’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (ChBE) since 2019 by mentoring students through the department’s Alumni Student Mentor Program (ASMP).

Eight graduating seniors from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering were honored with 10 Graduating Student Awards from the College of Engineering and Applied Science this year.

Fifteen undergraduate students were recognized in 2024 with Chemical and Biological Engineering Department awards.

Chemical and Biological Engineering students Claire Ely and Delaney McNally are among 438 college students from across the United States in 2024 to be awarded Goldwater Scholarships, which reward sophomores and juniors who are actively conducting research in math, science and engineering.

Five chemical and biological engineering graduate students and one ChBE undergraduate student have received 2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, a prestigious award that recognizes and supports outstanding students in a wide variety of science-related disciplines.

Since retiring in 2017 from CU Boulder’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Professor Dave Clough has collaborated on three textbooks. He’s also regularly involved with students, participating in PhD committees and undergraduate activities alike.

Professor Daniel K. Schwartz has been honored with the prestigious American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry 2024 Langmuir Lectureship award. He was nominated by his colleagues for significant contributions to the field of colloid and interface science.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) granted $39 million to a CU Boulder-led team, including Professor Stephanie J. Bryant of chemical and biological engineering, to pioneer a single-shot joint treatment, that would stop cartilage and bone from erosion and promote regrowth.

Jerome Fox, an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been named a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Fox's research focuses on engineering microbes for drug discovery. He founded Think Bioscience, a company developing medicines for conditions like Rett Syndrome and cancer.