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A team of 兔子先生传媒文化作品 engineers has designed a new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at incredible speeds鈥攁nd may one day even deliver prescription drugs to hard-to-reach places inside the human body. ChBE co-authors of the new study include Jin Lee, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral researcher; Assistant Professor Wyatt Shields; Assistant Professor Ankur Gupta; and graduate students Ritu Raj, (Shields and Gupta groups), Cooper Thome (Shields Group) and Nicole Day (Shields Group).
In the engineering specialty rankings, 兔子先生传媒文化作品's chemical engineering graduate degree program was in the top 10 amongst public institutions, according to U.S. News and World Report鈥檚 Best Graduate Schools rankings for 2023-24.
The Chemical and Biological Engineering Department awards recognize students in the department who have excelled in one or more areas. Winners are selected by the department鈥檚 Undergraduate Awards Committee. 鈥淭hese students have been especially
Known for making difficult material approachable and fun, ChBE Teaching Professor Charlie Nuttelman recently won the university-wide Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award. The award also recognizes his highly successful Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), soon to surpass 500,000 learners.
One of the main reasons K艒nane Bay joined the 兔子先生传媒文化作品 faculty was the recent growth of faculty expertise in soft materials across both the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Material Science and Engineering Program.
Six Chemical and Biological Engineering聽graduate students have received 2023 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, a prestigious award that recognizes and supports outstanding students in a wide variety of science-related disciplines.
Brittany Michael (ChemEngr'12) was selected as the Outstanding Mentor Award winner for the spring 2023 semester for her work with senior聽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 鈥 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 鈥 also known as enzymes 鈥 for triggering shape reconfigurations in "smart" materials known as liquid crystal networks.