Student Awards

Chemical engineering student and varsity Cross Country Team member Rachel Viger has been honored with a number of awards as she finishes up her undergraduate career. Viger received a University of Colorado 2014 Scholar-Athlete Award for having the highest Senior GPA of a female athlete on the CU Boulder campus...

Undergraduate Duncan Chadly has received the 2014 Genentech Outstanding Student Award. This award includes both a scholarship and an optional summer internship. It was founded to recognize outstanding students in disciplines related to Chemical and Biological Engineering. Chadly is triple majoring in Chemical Engineering, Engineering Physics, and Biochemistry and hopes...

Kayla Weston has been awarded the Colorado Engineering Council’s 2014 Silver Medal , the top honor given annually to a graduating senior. This marks the sixth time the medal has gone to a ChBE student in the last ten years. In addition to a top GPA, Weston possesses extensive research...

Kayla Weston took 1st place in the Materials Engineering and Sciences Division Undergraduate Student Poster Competition at the AIChE 2013 Annual Meeting in San Francisco for her poster titled ”A Method for Clean H2 Generation from Solar Heat and Water.” Weston is a member of the Weimer group. Abstract: Solar...

Congratulations to Dr. Jia Chew , who was awarded the 2013 AIChE Best Ph.D. Thesis in Particle Technology for her experimental research on the impact of polydispersity on multiphase flows. Dr. Chew received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2011 as a member of Christine Hrenya’s research group. She has...

Fairview High School student Michael Chen , 16, has had a busy spring award season. Michael has conducted research on zeolite membranes in the Falconer lab under the guidance of Associate Professor Hans Funke since the Fall of 2012, and his work has recently been acclaimed at the national level...

Katie Lewis, a graduate student in the Anseth lab, received a 2013 Whitaker International Program Summer Grant to work for two months this summer with Professor Justin Cooper-White's group at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Katie will be studying photodegradable...

Congratulations to graduate students Tyler Martin and Matt McBride, both of whom have received prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowships. Both were NSF-REU students in our department before joining ChBE as graduate students. Tyler is advised by Arthi Jayaraman while Matt is advised by Chris Bowman.

Congratulations to department undergraduates Taylor Kennedy, Anna McLeland and Kayla Weston who won awards at the Discovery Learning Research Symposium in April.

Congratulations to undergraduates Benjamin Mead and Brandon Lin, who were chosen by the department to be recognized at the April 26 Awards Banquet as Distinguished Seniors.