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Aaron Sin removes cultures from storage for use in a microfabricated system used to test chemical toxicity or pharmaceutical candidates.

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The School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

At the dedication of the School of Chemical Engineering in 1938, the Director Fred Rhodes called on students to produce "those flashes of scientific imagination and engineering inspiration that form the stepping stones from the impossible of today to the common place of tomorrow." We still have those big dreams today. With over two hundred undergraduate students and roughly one hundred graduate students, and over thirty talented faculty and technical staff, we are a vibrant part of one of the top ten engineering colleges in the country.

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