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Matt Paszek

Professor Matt Paszek named CBE Director of Postdoctoral Studies

Professor Matt Paszek has been named the inaugural Director of Postdoctoral Studies in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE). Director Susan Daniel sent the following message to the CBE community on August 9, 2021: Dear All, I am excited to share that Prof. Matt Paszek has been named CBE's first Director of Postdoctoral Studies. This is an exciting time for the postdoctoral community of CBE because of the opportunity to define, with Matt, what the support for postdocs should be, and to have a direct representative voice on the department’s leadership... Read more

Qiuming Yu

NSF funds Yu group to develop a new class of chiral semiconductors

By: National Science Foundation

NSF funds Yu group to develop a new class of chiral semiconductors based on two-dimensional hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskites to achieve strong chirality, tunable band structure, and fast charge transport for chiroptoelectronic applications. Chiral materials have non-superimposable structures and mirror images. Chiral semiconductors have applications such as generating and detecting polarized light and making 3D displays and imaging devices. Read more

Matt DeLisa

Professor Matt DeLisa named to the “Life Sciences Power 50” list by City & State New York

By: City & State New York

Matt DeLisa, William L. Lewis Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and director of Cornell’s Institute of Biotechnology, makes City & State’s first Life Sciences Power 50 – researched and written by City & State’s Jon Lentz and Kay Dervishi. This list recognizes many of the key individuals behind the sector’s remarkable growth in New York, including scientists, venture capitalists, government officials, health care executives, real estate developers, philanthropists and others who have positioned New York as a biotech center on track to rival those in Boston and San Francisco. Read more

Yifan Cheng

Yifan Cheng awarded prestigious fellowship by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)

Dr. Yifan Cheng has recently been awarded a prestigious fellowship by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) of the US Department of Agriculture. The project aims to develop enzymatic membrane reactors using the iCVD technique to valorize food processing waste streams that are outside the “comfort zones” of regular enzymes. Cheng is a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Rong Yang's lab in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. Read more

Fengqi You

Professor Fengqi You receives National Award on Sustainability Education

Fengqi You, Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor at the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was selected to receive the 2021 Sustainable Engineering Forum Education Award by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) to recognize his contributions and accomplishments on sustainability education. Read more