Faculty
Known for making difficult material approachable and fun, ChBE Teaching Professor Charlie Nuttelman recently won the university-wide 麻豆影院 Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award. The award also recognizes his highly successful Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), soon to surpass 500,000 learners.
Assistant Professor C. Wyatt Shields IV is the recipient of a 2022 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program Award for his proposal 鈥淢apping Immune Cell Responses to High Pressures in Decompression Illness.鈥
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the revamped and retooled Chemical Engineering Design Project course 鈥 a class (re)designed to provide seniors with practical problem-solving experience and foster stronger ties to industry.
Two faculty from ChBE were recognized at highly cited researchers for 2021.
The proliferation of plastic products has created an environmental challenge: what should be done with unusable, discarded plastic waste that can harm the environment? Faculty from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering are working on a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project, Hydrogenolysis for Upcycling of Polyesters and Mixed Plastics, to address this serious environmental issue.
COVID-19 vaccines are just the beginning for mRNA-based therapies; enabling a patient鈥檚 body to make almost any given protein could revolutionize care for other viruses, like HIV, as well as various cancers and genetic disorders. However, because mRNA molecules are very fragile, they require extremely low temperatures for storage and transportation. The logistical challenges and expense of maintaining these temperatures must be overcome before mRNA therapies can become truly widespread.
Alumnus Jason Burdick (PhDChemEngr鈥02) will return as faculty early next year, becoming the first Bowman Endowed Professor.
It is with great sadness that the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering community learned of the recent passing of Professor Emeritus Robert 鈥淏ob鈥 Sani.
Associate Professor Hendrik Heinz earned two prestigious distinctions recently: his election to the Senior Editor position for the ACS journal Langmuir and as a Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM).