Top Department News
Grad students and postdocs volunteer for campus COVID-19 population monitoring effort
CU Boulder is ramping up its ability to conduct COVID-19 monitoring analyses by enlisting volunteer graduate students and postdocs across campus, including several from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Read more
Holewinski and Smith earn Scialog Fellowship to foster scientific breakthroughs to combat climate change
Assistant Professor Adam Holewinski and Associate Professor Wilson Smith have been selected as Scialog Fellows to participate in the 2020 Scialog: Negative Emissions Science initiative, an effort to identify bottlenecks in research and develop ways to foster breakthroughs in the field. Read more
Medlin group researchers return to the lab—with safety and best practices in mind
Department researchers are heading back to work under strict safety guidelines. Read more
Career advice, communication and adapting to change: An interview with Mark Strobel, Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award winner
Mark Strobel (MChemEngr'79) has made a big impact as a researcher and innovator at 3M in the past several decades. This spring, the College of Engineering and Applied Science honored him with a Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award for Industry & Commerce, recognizing this work in industry as an alumnus. Read more
2021 recipients of the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowships for Diversity announced
The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA) is excited to announce the 2021 recipients of the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Diversity: Mike Gil (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), René Kissell (School of Education), Sara Sanchez (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences), and Thaiesha Wright (Chemical and Biological Engineering). Read more
$2.5 million NIH grant energizes force field development
The Open Force Field Initiative received millions in NIH funding to build open source infrastructure to assist researchers tackling molecular design problems. Read more
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