Peter Harriott and Julian Smith win 2008 AIChE Warren K. Lewis Award
Emeritus professors Peter Harriott and Julian Smith have been named as the 2008 recipients of the AIChE Warren K. Lewis award for outstanding and continued excellence in the area of chemical engineering education.
Susan Daniel and Tobias Hanrath awarded NSF Grants
CBE’s two youngest faculty, Susan Daniel and Tobias Hanrath, have just been awarded NSF grants.
Lynden Archer wins College of Engineering Teaching Award.
Lynden Archer, the Marjorie Hart Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been named as one of the College of Engineering’s outstanding teachers.
Ritsdeliz Perez-Rodriguez invited to attend Dow Chemical's BEST Symposium
Ritsdeliz Perez-Rodriguez has been selected to participate in the BEST Symposium hosted by The Dow Chemical Company.
Paulette Clancy honored with the Kendall S. Carpenter Award
Paulette Clancy, William C. Hooey Director of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering, has been awarded the Cornell Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial
Advising Award.
Cornell ChemE Graduate Students honored with Austin Hooey awards
Adam Fisher and Xiong Wen (David) Lou, senior PhD candidate students in
Chemical Engineering, were honored with an Austin Hooey award for outstanding research progress towards their degree.
New $25M KAUST Center in novel nanomaterials for energy-related platforms awarded to Cornell University (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Professors Lynden Archer (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) and Emmanuel Giannelis (Materials Science and Engineering) have been awarded a $25 million grant funded by the Global Research Partnership of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology for a new interdisciplinary scientific research and education center.
Eric L. First (’09) awarded the 2008 Rohm & Haas / Rodriguez Outstanding Student Award
Eric L. First, a junior Cornell undergraduate majoring in both Chemical Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded the 2008 Rohm & Haas / Rodriguez Outstanding Student Award.
Parbir Grewal ('10) awarded a Goldwater Scholarship
Parbir S. Grewal, a sophomore in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship.
Associate Professor T. Michael Duncan has won the 2008 Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award
Associate Professor T. Michael Duncan has been selected by the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society as the winner of the 2008 Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award.
Jeff Tester, Cornell's first Croll professor, will speak on campus March 28-29 on sustainable energy.
Jefferson W. Tester '66, M.S. '67, will hold the first Croll Professorship of Sustainable Energy Systems in the College of Engineering, pending approval by the Cornell Board of Trustees.
Deyan Luan's article selected for IMIA Yearbook.
An article by Deyan Luan, graduate student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering working with Assistant Professor Jeffery Varner, has been selected for publication in the 2008 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics.
Matthew DeLisa awarded the first Daniel I. C. Wang award for bioengineering
Assistant Professor Matthew DeLisa has been named as the 2008 and inaugural winner of the Daniel I.C. Wang Award sponsored by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and by the journal "Biotechnology & Bioengineering."
Carol K. Hall to give 2008 J. C. Smith Lectures April 21 and 22
The 2008 J. C. Smith Lecture series will be given on April 21st and 22nd by Carol K. Hall, Camille Dreyfus Professor at North Carolina State.
Dave Putnam promoted to Associate Professor.
David Putnam has been granted tenure at Cornell University and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, effective February 1, 2008.
Abe Stroock wins 2007 NSF Career Award
Assistant Professor Abe Stroock has won a 2007 NSF Career award for his work on the science and engineering of water at negative pressures.
Two Cornell ChemE faculty awarded Fellowship in APS.
Dr. Lynden Archer, the Marjorie Hart Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been elected to the Fellowship of the American Physical Society by his peers for "outstanding contributions to physics," in the area of polymer physics.
Professor T. Michael Duncan named as the 2007 Carnegie Foundation New York State Professor of the Year
Associate Professor T. Michael Duncan has been named as the 2007 Carnegie Foundation New York State Professor of the Year. The Foundation awards one person this honor for each state each year, based on the quality of their teaching prowess.
Asst. Prof. Jeffrey Varner, CBE, wins award to study sepsis
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Jeffrey Varner, and his collaborator at Cornell's Manhattan-based Weill Medical College, Professor Phil Barie, have been awarded a competitive "Ithaca-Weill" seed grant.
Matt DeLisa Wins NYSTAR Award
Assistant Professor Matt DeLisa has been selected by the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) for a faculty development award.
Abe Stroock named to Technology Review's Prestigious TR35 List of Top Young Innovators
Abraham Stroock has been recognized by Technology Review magazine as one of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35 for work on microchemical technologies. Selected from more than 300 nominees by a panel of expert judges and the editorial staff of Technology Review, the TR35 is an elite group of accomplished young innovators who exemplify the spirit of innovation in business, technology and the arts.
Matt DeLisa receives College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award
Professor Matt DeLisa has been
awarded the Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Tucker '50 Excellence in Teaching
Award organized by the College of Engineering.
Evelyn Taylor Pearson to deliver the 2007 Raymond G. Thorpe Lecture
Evelyn Taylor Pearson will deliver the fourteenth Raymond G. Thorpe lecture in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University on Monday, October 29, 2007.
Cornell Casting Group wins "Best Paper" Award
The 2007 "Henry Marion Howe Medal" for best paper appearing in the journals Metallurgical & Materials Transactions A & B (published in calendar year 2006) has been awarded to co-authors Cormac Byrne, Eric Theisen, Barry Reed and Paul Steen.
ChE graduate student wins Bausch & Lomb Student Innovation award
Cornell Chemical Engineering PhD student, Nakwon Choi, has been awarded the 2nd annual Student Innovation award from Bausch and Lomb.
Five ChE Faculty awarded Seed Grants in Sustainable Energy Systems
Faculty from the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering were awarded three of the six seed research awards made under the auspices of the College of Engineering's first annual competition to encourage research on energy-related topics. This competition is part of a new Program in Sustainable Energy Systems that has been created in the College of Engineering at Cornell this year.
ChE Faculty member, Andrew Hunter, awarded Hatfield Foundation Grant in Energy Economics
The Hatfield Foundation has awarded Professor Andrew Hunter a grant to create an image database to assist in the education of graduate students in the area of Energy Economics and Engineering.
David Putnam wins Controlled Release Society's 2007 Young Investigator award
Assistant Professor David Putnam, who holds academic appointments
in both Biomedical Engineering and in Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering, was selected by the Controlled Research Society to receive
their Young Investigator Award in 2007.
Assistant Professor Tobias Hanrath to join ChE faculty in Fall 2007
Dr. Tobias Hanrath will join the faculty of the School of Chemical
and Biomolecular Engineering in the fall of 2007.
ChE PhD student, Toby Wheeler, wins Corning Graduate Fellowship
Tobias Wheeler, a PhD student working with Professor Abe Stroock
in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded a Corning
Graduate Fellowship in recognition of his research progress.
New Cornell Assistant Professor in Chemical & Bimolecular Engineering: Dr. Susan Daniel
Starting July 1, 2007, Cornell's School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering will add a new faculty member, Susan Daniel.
Cornell ChE PhD candidate takes 1st place at the Georgia Tech Black Graduate Student Association 2007 Symposium
Cornell Chemical Engineering PhD student, Lydia Contreras, was
awarded first place out of approximately 60 speakers for her oral
presentation at the Georgia Tech Black Graduate Student Association
(BGSA) 2007 Symposium.
Cornell Professor David Putnam awarded an NSF Early Career award
Assistant Professor David Putnam, who holds positions in both the
Biomedical Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
departments at Cornell has been awarded an NSF CAREER award for an
integrated research and educational study of predictive biomaterials
design.
Chemical engineering major gets Biophysical Society Minority Travel
Cornell ChE Undergraduate awarded a travel grant to attend the 51st International Biophysical Society meeting.
Peter Harriott Master of Engineering Fellowships
New partial tuition fellowships are now available for Master of Engineering students entering Fall 2007 who are interested in focusing their studies in the areas of sustainable energy systems and environmental protection.
Jenna Rea and Nimil Sood (ChemE 08) take 2nd place in the 2006 L'Oreal Ingenius Contest
Two Cornell Chemical Engineering undergraduates placed second in the North American phase of this year's L'Oreal Ingenius Contest.
Paper by Assistant Professor David Putnam ranked Top 100 MS in RNA-interference in 2006
A paper by Cornell Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering David Putnam, entitled "Biophysical and Structural Characterization of Polyethylenimine-Mediated siRNA Delivery in Vitro," was ranked one of the Top 100 most downloaded manuscripts in the field of RNA interference for 2006.
Beckie Robertson, Versant Ventures, to give the Ray Thorpe Lecture on Thursday November 9th
On Thursday November 9th, Ms. Rebecca Robertson, will present the annual Ray Thorpe Lecture to address the issues surrounding "The Value in Innovation and Entrepreneurship."
Former Director, Professor Kenneth Bischoff, died August 27th
Kenneth Bischoff, a former faculty member and Director of the School of Chemical Engineering at Cornell, died on August 27th 2006, aged 71.
Professor Emeritus Bob Von Berg Passes Away
On August 11th 2006, Professor Emeritus Robert Lee Von Berg passed away in Ithaca aged 88.
Second New York Complex Matter Workshop on July 21, 2006
Location: 700 Clark Hall, Cornell University
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Registration: 9:30-10:00 AM
6 invited speakers and “sound bites” from participants followed by informal discussion.
Archer awarded NYSTAR CAT Innovation award to sequence nucleic acids
Lynden Archer, the Marjorie Hart Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell, has been awarded a NYSTAR Center for Advanced Technology Innovation grant to sequence nucleic acids using topologically complex primers.
DeLisa, Varner and Wu awarded NYSTAR Cornell Advanced Technology grants for 2006-7
Matthew DeLisa, Jeffrey Varner and Mingming Wu have each won competitive NYSTAR Cornell Advanced Technology grants for collaborative research with New York State industry.
Undergraduate researcher wins 1st place in NSBE poster competition
Denine King, Cornell ChE class of '07, won first place in the Undergraduates in Science and Technical Research poster competition at the 32nd annual National Society of Black Engineers conference held in Pittsburgh recently.
Lanny D. Schmidt to give 2006 J. C. Smith Lectures April 10 - 11
The 2006 J. C. Smith Lecture series will be given on April 10th and 11th by Professor Lanny D. Schmidt of the University of Minnesota.
Cornell celebrates Dr. Lew Fetter's 70th Birthday
On March 29th, Cornell is celebrating Dr. Lew Fetter's 70th birthday and his many contributions to the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering which he joined in September 2001.
Professor Abe Stroock wins 2006 Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation award
Assistant Professor Abe Stroock has been awarded a 2006 Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation grant for his work on the development of "Remodelable Microfluidics for the Study of Vascular Development".
Assistant Professors DeLisa and Varner win ONR awards
Assistant Professors Matt DeLisa and Jeffrey Varner have recently won ONR research awards.
Professor Abe Stroock awarded 3M non-tenured faculty grant
Assistant Professor Abe Stroock has won a 3M non-tenured faculty grant to support his work on basic research in the physical and biological sciences.
Dr. Sam Bodman (Cornell Class of 60) made a member of the National Academy of Engineering
Dr. Samuel Wright Bodman, secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C, was elected to embership in the National Academy of Engineering for "leadership and innovation in materials science and technology and for outstanding cabinet-level service to the U.S. government."
Cornell alumnus, Walter Chapman, named the William W. Akers Chair of CBE at Rice
Professor Walter Chapman has been named as the William W. Akers Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Enginering at Rice University.
Lanny D. Schmidt to give 2006 J. C. Smith Lectures April 10 - 11
The 2006 J. C. Smith Lecture series will be given on April 10th and 11th by Professor Lanny D. Schmidt of the University of Minnesota. The subjects of his two talks will be: "Does Renewable Energy Make Sense? An Engineering Perspective" and "Hydrogen and Chemicals from Fossil and Renewable Fuels by Autothermal Reforming."
Dr. David Putnam receives the DuPont Science & Engineering Award
David Putnam, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded a DuPont Science & Engineering Award.
Alfred Center added to Pathfinder LLC's Wall of Fame for contributions to Project Management
Pathfinder LLC, a major design and consulting firm, has honored Professor Alfred Center (Cornell class of '65) as a 2005 inductee to its Wall of Fame for "outstanding and significant long-term contributions to the Project Management profession."
CBE wins three new Cornell-Weill medical school seed grants
Three Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering faculty members, William Olbricht, Matthew DeLisa and Abraham Stroock, were awarded seed grants to initiate research between the upstate and Manhattan Cornell campuses.
Cornell alumnus, Bob Langer ('70)wins MRS Von Hipple Award
Robert Langer, Cornell Chemical Engineering class of 1970, will be awarded the Materials Research Society's most prestigious award, the Von Hipple award, at their annual meeting next week.
Professor Ed Lightfoot (PhD '51) awarded the 2004 National Medal of Science by President Bush
Professor Edwin Lightfoot, Cornell PhD class of 1951, and the Hilldale Professor (emeritus) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, was announced as one of the winners of the National Medal of Science by President Bush today.
Professor James Engstrom named AVS Fellow
Professor Jim Engstrom was named as a Fellow of the American Vacumm Society at their meeting in early November.
Professor Brad Anton wins Teaching Award
Professor Brad Anton has been selected for the Outstanding Engineering Faculty Award for teaching.
Three ChE grad students win prestigious Fellowships in computational modeling
Three ChE Ph.D. students have been awarded prestigous graduate fellowships for their computational modeling thesis work.
Professor Mike Shuler wins inaugural Jay Bailey award
The Society of Biological Engineering has named Michael L. Shuler, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University as the first recipient of the James E. Bailey Award for 'Outstanding Contributions in Biological Engineering'.
Memorial Service for Ray Thorpe
There will be a memorial service for Ray Thorpe on Monday, September 19 at 1:00 p.m. in Sage Chapel. We will gather for refreshments at Baum Atrium in Duffield Hall immediately following the service.
Ray Thorpe succumbs to cancer
Raymond G. Thorpe, professor emeritus of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, died last night after a short battle with cancer.
Professor Matt DeLisa wins TR35 award
The October issue of MIT's Technology Review has named Professor Matthew DeLisa of the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell as one of their top 35 technology innovators under age 35, the so-called TR35.
Cornell Graduate Student wins ACS Scholarship for Scientific Excellence
Kunal Aggrawal, a fourth year PhD candidate working with Professor Kelvin Lee, has won an American Chemical Society Scholarship for Scientific Excellence for his work to understand how gene expression is regulated by E. coli.
Shivaun Archer and William L. Olbricht win 2005 Cornell College of Engineering Teaching Awards
Drs. Shivaun Archer and Bill Olbricht won Cornell College of Engineering Teaching awards this year for outstanding performances in teaching in AY 2004-5.
Dr. Matthew DeLisa invited to join National Academy of Science Symposium on the Frontiers of Science
Assistant Professor Matthew DeLisa of the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell has been invited to participate in the 17th Annual Frontiers of Science Symposium, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences.
Cornell Graduate Student Wins Merck-sponsored Best Poster Award
Adam Fisher, a 2nd year PhD candidate working for Professor Matt DeLisa, has won a Merck-sponsored Award for Best Student Poster at the recent Biochemical Engineering XIV conference in British Columbia.
Two CBE faculty to participate in NAE Symposium for leaders in engineering research
Assistant Professors Jeffrey Varner and Abraham Stroock, of the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell, have been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering 2005 Frontiers of Engineering symposium in Niskayuna, New York, on September 22-24.
Professor James Engstrom appointed the BP Amoco/H. Laurance Fuller Professor of Chemical Engineering
Professor James R. Engstrom has been appointed by the Trustees of Cornell University as the BP Amoco/H. Laurance Fuller Professor, for a five-year term effective July 1, 2005.
Dr. Jeffrey Varner, an expert in computational biology, joins the faculty
Dr. Jeffrey Varner will join the faculty of the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell on July 1, 2005. Dr. Varner has a PhD from Purdue and post-doctoral experience at ETH in Zurich.
New Merck-sponsored undergraduate research in bioprocess engineering
Thanks to a gift from the Bioprocess Research and Developmentsection of Merck Research Labs, the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell has initiated a summer program aimed at involving undergraduates in research in the broad area of bioprocess engineering.
Professor David Putnam has won a prestigious Early Career Translational Research Award
Professor David Putnam has won a prestigious Early Career Translational Research Award from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation for his innovative design and synthesis of new biomaterials.
Manish Sharma awarded 2005 Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship
Manish Sharma, a Ph.D. candidate working with Professor James R. Engstrom, has been awarded a 2005 Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship, one of two Cornell students among the 43 Fellowships awarded this year.
Cormac Byrne and Qiang Zhang named Edna O. and William C. Hooey Prize winners for Spring 2005
PhD candidates Cormac Byrne and Qiang Zhang in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell have been awarded Edna O. and William C. Hooey prizes for outstanding contribution to research in chemical engineering.
La Shanda James-Korley awarded first Cornell Provost's Diversity Post-Doctoral Prize
La Shanda James-Korley has been awarded a Provost's Diversity Post-Doctoral Prize and will be working with Professors Claude Cohen and Yong Joo.
CBE awarded four research grants for joint projects with Cornell's Weill Medical College
Faculty in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering won four grants to initiate new projects between Cornell's upstate campus and Weill Medical College.
Professor Yong Joo awarded DuPont Young Professor Grant
Assistant Professor Yong Lak Joo has been named as the recipient of a $75,000 2005-2006 DuPont Young Professor Grant for his work on electrospun nanofibrous mats.
Dr. Lynden Archer named Marjorie L. Hart Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell
Professor Lynden Archer was named as the Marjorie L. Hart Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell for his outstanding contributions to our understanding of rheology, the study of flow and deformation of complex fluids.
Professor Matt DeLisa wins 2005 Beckman Young Investigator award
Professor Matt DeLisa has been named a 2005 Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Young Investigator for an exciting project entitled: “A New Approach to Synthesis and Folding of Modular Proteins via Ribosome Reprogramming.”
John Prausnitz ('50) will receive the National Medal of Science
John Prausnitz (Cornell ChemE class of '50) will formally receive the National Medal of Science at a ceremony at the White House on March 14, 2005.
Bob Langer ('70) named MIT Institute Professor and awarded $1M Dan David Prize
Robert S. Langer, the Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, has been named Institute Professor, the highest honor awarded by the MIT faculty and administration.
Sam Bodman, class of '60, confirmed as Energy Secretary
Dr. Samuel Bodman, ChE class of 60, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate this week as the Secretary of Energy.
Graduate Fellowships in Multiscale Modeling of Polymeric and Complex
Seven prestigious graduate fellowships are available for students entering the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in Fall 2005 who are interested in research in Multiscale Modeling and Analysis of Polymeric and Complex Fluid Systems.
Professors Matthew DeLisa and Yong Joo receive NSF CAREER awards
Professors Matthew De Lisa and Yong Lak Joo, assistant professors in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell, have recently been named as recipients of the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.
Professor T. Michael Duncan named a Weiss Fellow for outstanding student teaching and mentoring
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell, has been named as a 2004 recipient of a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship, the highest award that a faculty member can receive in recognition of undergraduate teaching.
Professor Yong Joo receives a 3M Young Faculty award
Professor Yong Joo, an assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell, has won a 3M Non-Tenured Faculty award for 2005.
Major Fundraising Milestone Reached
Thanks to our generous donors, including a generous bequest, we have raised one million dollars over the past two years in support of the Industrial Practitioner Program.
Ms. Austin Hooey Endows School Directorship in Bequest
Through the generosity of Ms. Austin O. Hooey's estate, the Directorship of the School is now an endowed position! Ms. Hooey has endowed the leadership of the School in honor of her father William C. Hooey.
Professors Putnam and Center Honored for Teaching Excellence
Assistant Professor David Putnam and Professor Al Center (class of 1965) were selected as two of the College of Engineering's outstanding teachers.