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Brittany Michael (ChemEngr'12) was selected as the Outstanding Mentor Award winner for the spring 2023 semester for her work with senior Saylor Perez.

Ten graduating seniors from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering earned Graduating Student Awards from the College of Engineering and Applied Science this year.

Researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering Program have published new findings in Joule that could lead to the development of better hybrid lead halide perovskites – a class of materials proposed for use as low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells.

PhD Student Albert Velasco Abadia was awarded the prestigious Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award for his research in using biological catalysts — also known as enzymes — for triggering shape reconfigurations in "smart" materials known as liquid crystal networks.

Adam Holewinski, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship to research efficient ways to produce sustainable chemical products and fuels using electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind.

Christopher Calderon, PhD, will give a talk, "A Review of Some Data-Driven Modeling Applications Fueled by Optical Microscopy, on May 2.

Mallory Palizzi, a junior studying chemical engineering, conducts research with a graduate student in the Boulder Experimental Electronics and Manufacturing (BEEM) Laboratory on East Campus. Palizzi says she was hired through the SPUR program for the summer, and the lab later decided to extend her position though the academic school year.

Building with Fluids: A Lazy Approach to Fabrication Speaker: Pierre-Thomas Brun, assistant professor, chemical and biological engineering, Princeton University Host: Ryan Hayward Tuesday, April 25, 2023 — 2:45 p.m., JSCBB A108 Abstract In nature, organized arrays of elements arise spontaneously from the interactions between their component parts, e.g. reaction-diffusion problems,...

In this issue of Powder Technology, Professor Alan Weimer describes his commercial path for two new powder processing technologies that resulted in two new businesses. Both developments began as laboratory curiosities and had to overcome significant skepticism and technical and financial challenges along the way.