Category: Chemical Engineering
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How rod-shaped particles might distract an out-of-control immune response
When white blood cells don’t know when to stop, an injection of rod-shaped particles may draw them away from a site of excessive inflammation.
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ChE stands united against racism
Sharon Glotzer, the Anthony C. Lembke Department Chair of Chemical Engineering, addresses the ChE community and shares support for the Black Lives Matter movement
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Dr. Susan Montgomery retires from Chemical Engineering after 27 years
Montgomery transitions to a three-year period of phased retirement during which she will serve the College of Engineering as an academic coach
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Engineering immunity: Profiling COVID-19 immune responses and developing a vaccine
As COVID-19 looks more like a disease of the immune system, a Michigan engineer is working with doctors to look at how immune responses differ between mild and severe cases.
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Rich Lesser (BSE ’83), CEO of BCG, to give virtual commencement address to Michigan graduating seniors
Lesser recalls graduating during a recession when job prospects were bleak.
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U-M-approved face shield design guides makers addressing the PPE shortage through 3D printing
As Ann Arbor’s maker community sprang into action making face shields, Michigan Medicine and the U-M College of Engineering offered a recommended design that is effective and straightforward to produce.
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Successful 2020 ChE Faculty Search
Department moves final interviews online
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World’s most complex synthetic microparticle outdoes nature’s intricacy
Creating and measuring intricacy in particles that could improve electronics and chemical reactions.
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Grad students coping under COVID-19
Through vlogs, students share their frustrations and the silver linings they’ve found while self-isolating.
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Containment efforts appear to step down the spread of COVID-19 from the exponential norm
Deaths in China reflect a slower expansion of the new coronavirus, suggesting a fractal network.
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U-M spinoff offers free coronavirus test kits to researchers
The kits help researchers understand where the virus came from and how it operates.
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Cancer: Faster screening to hit “undruggable” targets
Coiled proteins could stop cancer and other diseases from overriding signals within cells.
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Chemical Engineering at 2019 AIChE Meeting
The student chapter and the chapter’s advisor, H. Scott Fogler, received recognition at the 2019 AIChE Student Conference
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Bryan Goldsmith named Dow Corning Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
This support will enable his research lab to explore promising ideas related to machine learning and catalysis.
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2019 Weber Lecture celebrates legacy of Professor Emeritus Walt Weber, Jr.
ChE PhD alumnus Abhaya K. Datye delivers first Weber Lecture since death of event’s namesake
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Jennifer Linderman received AIChE mentoring award
AIChE gives Linderman the Women’s Initiatives Committee’s Mentorship Excellence Award in honor of her dedication to mentoring.
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Scott Fogler receives AIChE and ASEE awards
He received his AIChE Van Antwerpen Award at the Honors Ceremony at the AIChE Annual Meeting on November 10, 2019.
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Nanoparticle-based, bio-inspired catalyst could help make more efficient reactions affordable
Chemical processes usually give us both mirror image versions of a molecule when we want only one.
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Joerg Lahann named collegiate professor
The Wolfgang Pauli Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering was honored at a ceremony on October 9, 2019
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2019 ChE Homecoming Events
The Department of Chemical Engineering hosted an 80th birthday breakfast for Professor Scott Fogler on October 4, during Michigan Engineering Homecoming Weekend.