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Ankur Gupta, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, has been invited to deliver the prestigious Dream Chemistry Lecture at the Institute of Physical Chemistry in Warsaw, Poland. The honor recognizes the significant contributions of Gupta's young research group, the Laboratory of Interfaces, Flow, and Electrokinetics (LIFE).

Assistant Professor Wyatt Shields has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2023 Symposium. Engineers who are performing exceptional research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together for the two-and-a-half-day event. The participants — from industry, academia, and...

Two professors from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering were recently honored with AB Nexus Award s, which aim to foster interdisciplinary research collaborations between CU Anschutz and CU Boulder. Under the program, ChBE Associate Professor Anushree Chatterjee is partnering with with Assistant Professor Lakshmi Chauhan (infectious diseases, CU...

Daniel Schwartz , Glenn L. Murphy Professor of Engineering, has received the College of Engineering and Applied Science 2023 Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award . The award recognizes faculty members who demonstrate exceptional advising skills with graduate students and who serve as role models to other advisors.

Dear ChBE Community, As we emerge from a particularly cold and snowy Colorado winter, and embrace the warmth of spring, it’s a great time to reconnect with our ChBE alumni, students, faculty and staff and to reflect on the changes since we last connected. Of note are the early successes...

Surpassing more than 300 participants, chemical engineering PhD student Hector Sanchez-Moran took home first prize at the PEGS Essential Protein and Antibody Engineering Summit poster presentation competition.

Evan Flitz, Collin Sindt and and Noah Smith have received 2023 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships (NDSEG), a prestigious Department of Defense award that recognizes and supports promising young scientists and engineers.

A team of CU Boulder engineers has designed a new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at incredible speeds—and may one day even deliver prescription drugs to hard-to-reach places inside the human body. ChBE co-authors of the new study include Jin Lee, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral researcher; Assistant Professor Wyatt Shields; Assistant Professor Ankur Gupta; and graduate students Ritu Raj, (Shields and Gupta groups), Cooper Thome (Shields Group) and Nicole Day (Shields Group).

Congratulations to Adam Holewinski , assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, for being approved for tenure at the April 28 University of Colorado Boulder Board of Regents meeting. Holewinski leads the Holewinski Research Group , which focuses on “efficient, renewable and environmentally benign catalytic processes for the production of...