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Surfaces and interfaces influence molecular and macroscopic phenomena in fields ranging from pharmaceuticals to biofuel catalysis to biomedical devices. A powerful way to understand these effects is to literally watch individual molecules move around on surfaces, something that has not been possible until now. Department Chair and Alfred T. and...

Each April graduate student awards are given by the department for outstanding research, leadership, and service. This year’s winners, above shown l-r, are: Caroline Szczepanski - Departmental Service Award Chris Muhich - American Institute of Chemists Graduate Student Faculty Leadership Award Stacey Skaalure - American Institute of Chemists Graduate Student...

The 1904 Society, named to commemorate the initial launch of the Chemical Engineering degree at CU, seeks to create a community that promotes the interests of the ChBE community of students, alumni, faculty, and staff by supporting the department financially. This support is essential in helping the department recruit, recognize,...

Electronics engineer Maria Toscano-Leary was chosen as the winner of the 2014 ChBE Employee Recognition Award. Toscano-Leary works with students and faculty to design, build, and repair electronic instruments for research and educational purposes.

The CU-Boulder iGEM team had a goal of making synthetic biology more accessible and affordable. Surpassing their hopes, their project on new low-cost methods of enzyme purification won multiple honors at the iGEM North American Regional Competition in Toronto and qualified them for the top synthetic biology competition in the...

Biking down a steep mountain road on his way to work last August, ChBE Professor and Associate Chair Charles Musgrave collided with a truck on a sharp bend, breaking his neck, collarbone, and four ribs. The fact that he showed up to teach on the first day of classes three...

We are happy to welcome new Senior Instructor Tom Belval, who brings to the department years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Belval has a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a PhD in chemical engineering from Rice University. He has taught the course Biochemical Separations...

CU’s newly established PhD degree program in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) welcomed its first graduate students as well as the first new faculty hire into the program this fall thanks in large part to the efforts of MSE Director and ChBE Distinguished Professor Chris Bowman . “We are really...

After seeing a flier for a research experience for undergraduates (REU) involving sustainable energy for Sub-Saharan Africa, undergraduate student Melissa Rabin applied and was soon off to the University of Botswana (UB). She shared some of her experiences below. How was the REU program organized? The program was created by...

We are pleased to welcome new Assistant Research Professor Mark Kastantin , whose research interests include rationally designing sophisticated, nano-scale, protein-like materials that synergistically combine biologically inspired motifs to perform functions beyond what is found in nature. Some applications of this work include disease diagnosis, targeted drug delivery, and immunotherapy...