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April 16, 2018
Robert Langer (ChemE '70) delivered talk, 'The Edison of Medicine: Robert Langer’s Quest to Solve Global Health Challenges using Biotechnology'
Langer outlined his path to becoming a leading figure in the field of biotechnology since... read more
April 10, 2018
Next-generation rechargeable battery made with tin
Archer group has demonstrated a cost-effective way to stabilize lithium and sodium anodes using tin... read more
April 9, 2018
Matt Paszek, CBE Assistant Professor, selected Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year by the College of Engineering Alumni Association
Matt Paszek, Assistant Professor in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was... read more
March 22, 2018
CBE graduate students hosted the 8th annual WOMEN event on March 17, 2018
WOMEN stands for Women's Outreach in Materials, Energy, and Nanobiotechnology. read more
March 20, 2018
Taylor Stevenson, Ty Moeller and Kevin Weyant of the DeLisa Group publish in PNAS
The DeLisa Group teamed up to describe an alternative route to producing PNAG-containing... read more
March 14, 2018
Zhengyuan Tu and Snehashis Choudhury, of the Archer Group, publish in Nature Energy
Zhengyuan Tu and Snehashis Choudhury, from Prof. Lynden Archer’s lab, report the invention of a... read more
March 9, 2018
Seth Feder (ChemE '18) was awarded an Academic All-Ivy Award for Fall 2017
12 members of Cornell Rugby were recently awarded the Academic All-Ivy Award for Fall 2017 read more
March 8, 2018
Robert Frederick Smith '85 graces the cover of Forbes Magazine March 2018 Special Issue
"How The Richest Black American And His Billionaire Partner Became Top Philanthropists." read more
March 1, 2018
Hugh Bullen: Ph.D. Commercialization Fellow
Bullen arrived at Cornell in 2014 and joined the research group of Professor James Engstrom in the... read more
February 8, 2018
Prof. Lynden Archer elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions... read more
January 31, 2018
Hoang Phong Nguyen '18 named in Forbes' Vietnam's 30 Under 30 list
Recognizing his leadership of an educational website and YouTube channel: "Love of Knowledge." read more
January 26, 2018
Iyore Olaye ’16 named in Forbes 30 Under 30 List
Olaye stated that her experience with the Kessler Fellows Program helped her combine... read more
January 24, 2018
Brian Pfleger (ChemE '00) wins ACS BIOT Young Investigator award
The award honors an outstanding young contributor to the field of biochemical technology. Pfleger... read more
January 22, 2018
Prof. Chris Alabi has been selected as a 2018 PMSE Young Investigator
This distinction is meant to honor young researchers who have made significant contributions to... read more
January 19, 2018
Han-Yuan Liu, of the Daniel Group, receives CBE Best Paper of the Year award
"Biologically Complex Planar Cell Plasma Membranes Supported on Polyelectrolyte Cushions Retain... read more
January 11, 2018
Lynden Archer to lead Cornell Energy Systems Institute
Lynden Archer, professor of chemical and biolomolecular engineering, is the new director of the... read more
January 10, 2018
Leadership committee to guide Earth Source Heat effort on campus
Prof. Tester, who has been involved with geothermal research and development for more than 30... read more
December 18, 2017
Prof. Fengqi You Elected Environmental Division Director
The ENV Division engages in all aspects of educational, research and development activities to... read more
December 13, 2017
Magnetic tweezers reveal ‘hairballs’ in polymer growth
Their findings are reported in “Single Polymer Growth Dynamics,” published Oct. 20 in Science. In... read more
December 7, 2017
2 CBE PhD students inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
Jade Noble and Christian Aponte-Rivera have been inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor... read more
December 6, 2017
A new Robert Frederick Smith Initiative is launching
Three graduate students in CBE are launching a new civic engagement initiative. read more
December 4, 2017
Teams led by Hanrath and Putnam win two of four Scale-Up Awards to move laboratory developments toward commercial application
Two of the four teams that received Scale Up and Prototyping Awards include CBE Faculty, Tobias... read more
November 27, 2017
Kent Zheng (Archer group) wins grand prize in the 15th Challenge Cup Contest
Kent Zheng, a first-year Ph.D. student in the Archer group, was selected to participate in the... read more
November 20, 2017
Fengqi You elected vice-chair of AIChE’s Sustainable Engineering Forum
Through a division-wide election, Prof. Fengqi You was elected the vice chair of the Sustainable... read more
November 20, 2017
Fengqi You featured as an I&EC Research 2017 Class of Influential Researcher
Professor Fengqi You was named as one of the 2017 Class of Influential Researchers by the ACS... read more
November 20, 2017
Robert F. Smith ’85 received this year’s Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year award on Nov. 3.
Robert F. Smith, who earned his bachelor’s in chemical engineering at Cornell in ’85, received this... read more
November 3, 2017
Yong Joo is Named Fuller Chair
Yong L. Joo, Professor in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular... read more
October 30, 2017
CBE Reception at AIChe meeting in Minneapolis
Please join us at Cornell’s Reception on Tuesday at the AICHE Meeting. Tuesday, October 31,... read more
October 27, 2017
2017 CBE Safety Olympics
The second annual CBE Safety Olympics took place on September 15, 2017. read more
October 25, 2017
Cornell alumnus and world renowned Chemical Engineer, Edwin Lightfoot (BS '47 and PhD 50'), passed away Oct. 2, 2017, aged 92.
Edwin Niblock Lightfoot, Jr., passed away peacefully in his home at the age of 92 on October 2. read more
October 17, 2017
Angela Harper (Clancy group REU) wins the 2017 LeRoy Apker award from APS
Angela Harper, who spent a summer at Cornell as a CCMR REU student in 2016, has received the APS... read more
October 17, 2017
Shuler receives the 2018 BMES CMBE Shu Chien Achievement Award
Michael Shuler has been selected to receive the 2018 BMES CMBE Shu Chien Achievement Award from the... read more
October 17, 2017
Sodium has a promising future in electrochemical energy storage: Archer Group paper published in Nature Communications shows why
Designing solid-liquid interphases for sodium batteries: Current state-of-art lithium-ion batteries... read more
September 29, 2017
DeLisa and Putnam labs team up to engineer single-shot flu vaccine
The DeLisa and Putnam labs have teamed up for nearly a decade to develop novel vaccines based on... read more
September 6, 2017
CBE WOMEN's Outreach Program selected as shortlisted project for the GEDC Airbus Diversity Award
The W.O.M.E.N. project is an outreach program introducing economically disadvantaged families from... read more
September 6, 2017
Fengqi You wins 2018 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award
This is the 3rd major international award that Professor You has received recently, in addition to... read more
August 28, 2017
Zdenek Burianec Memorial Award presented to Jian Gong and Fengqi You
The title of their poster presentation is “Handling Uncertain Feedstock Compositions in Shale Gas... read more
August 7, 2017
Fengqi You wins 2017 Environmental Division Early Career Award from AIChE
This award is presented by AIChE to honor an individual with outstanding contributions in... read more
August 3, 2017
Energy Department Announces $19.4 Million Investment in Advanced Vehicle Technologies
Including Prof. Yong Joo's proposal, Highly Loaded Cathode and Coated Separator for High Rate... read more
July 31, 2017
The first indisputable spectroscopic evidence of the presence of the molecule (vinyl chloride) on Titan
James Stevenson of the Clancy Research Group, originally identified this as a potential cell... read more
July 14, 2017
Cornell's Jack'd Jerky wins national food contest
Team members include ChemE '17 Will Borchert, Isabel Alster ’18, Halle Bershad ’17, and Molly... read more
July 11, 2017
Fengqi You wins the 2017 AIChE Sustainable Engineering Research Award
The award is presented annually to recognize an individual with significant contributions to... read more
July 10, 2017
Energy Department Announces up to $4 Million for Geothermal Deep Direct-Use Feasibility Studies
Cornell recipients include Prof. Jeff Tester (CBE), and Prof. Terry Jordan (EAS). read more
July 3, 2017
How Your Food Waste Could Eventually Power Your Home
As featured in TIME Magazine: Tester Research Group has found a new way to capture nearly all of... read more
June 26, 2017
Presidential Fellowship awarded to a Ph.D. student in You group
Daniel Garcia, a Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Fengqi You (Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor... read more
June 23, 2017
DeLisa Group published a paper in Nature Chemical Biology
Former postdoc in the DeLisa lab, Dario Mizrachi, was lead author on the paper titled, "A... read more
June 20, 2017
CBE WOMEN Event was honored with the Engineering Initiative Award from the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN)
Recognizing it as an exemplary project that can serve as a model for other institutions trying to... read more
June 13, 2017
Interdisciplinary team concludes successful "Coding for All" program with the Sciencenter's middle-school Future Science Leaders
Sponsored by "Engaged Cornell" in a project known as "Coding for All", Cornell graduate students... read more
June 5, 2017
Thanh Tung Le '18 has been awarded a scholarship from Tau Beta Pi for 2017-18
Tau Beta Pi is the engineering honor society.Le is a rising senior majoring in chemical engineering... read more
June 5, 2017
Jiyao Gao, Ph.D. candidate in the You Group, received the AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum Student Paper Award
The Award will be presented at the Sustainable Engineering Forum luncheon during the AIChE Annual... read more
May 30, 2017
Yaset (Ace) Acevedo wins Outstanding Teaching Assistant (TA) Award 2017
Ace Acevedo has been named Outstanding TA for 2017 for his work in CHEME 1120. read more
May 30, 2017
Blaire Sorenson (Clancy group) wins Toni Morrison Graduate Mentoring Award
"This individual has gone beyond her role to promote diversity, scholarship and professional... read more
May 15, 2017
Clancy group featured on cover of Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys.
This paper provides a molecular-level computational study of the nucleation of a prototypical... read more
May 10, 2017
Prof. Qiuming Yu, Ph.D. '95, promoted to Research Full Professor (U. Washington)
Prof. Yu was awarded a Ph.D. from Cornell in the Clancy group where she worked on rapid... read more
May 10, 2017
Clancy, Kolakowski named 2017 Kaplan Faculty Fellows
Paulette Clancy, the Bodman Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Heather Kolakowski, lecturer in... read more
May 8, 2017
Two ACS journal covers feature energy and manufacturing research from You group
The first article, titled “Comparative Techno-Economic and Environmental Analysis of Ethylene and... read more
May 2, 2017
Archer Group featured on the cover of Advanced Energy Materials
Zhengyuan Tu, Ph.D. candidate in the Archer Group reports a nanostructured electrolyte design that... read more
