Category: Chemical Engineering
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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.
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Patient cancer cells reliably grow on new 3D scaffold, showing promise for precision medicine
While previous structures guessed at the environment that cells would want, the new design lets the cells build to their own specifications.
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ChE Alumni Merit Award Winner: Stephen P. Hart
Steve Hart, former Global Vice President of Supply, Trading and Transportation at ExxonMobil, is the recipient Michigan Chemical Engineering’s 2019 Alumni Merit Award.
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Mark Burns elected AIChE Fellow
Burns is recognized for his contributions to the profession and technology
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New ChE Faculty
The Department of Chemical Engineering welcomed two new faculty members this fall, Maciek Antoniewicz and Jovan Kamcev.