News Highlights

Engineering Spatial Organization in Biology via Protein-Driven Phase Separation and Assembly Speaker: Carolyn Mills, postdoctoral fellow, Northwestern University Host: Tim Whitehead Tuesday March 7, 2023 - 2:45 p.m., JSCBB A108 Seminar Abstract Engineering biology efforts have yielded remarkable progress towards addressing emerging societal challenges in areas from sustainability to human...

Assistant Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor Ankur Gupta received a $517,000, 5-year CAREER award to optimize performance of capacitive desalination and supercapacitor technologies. His research for the two disparate processes involves a technical commonality: porous electrodes to maximize performance.

Professor Robert H. Davis is known throughout CU Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science as an outstanding leader for his 25-year tenure as the Chemical and Biological Engineering department chair and then the dean of the college. Davis recently added another accolade to his extensive list of accomplishments: Distinguished Professor, the highest honor bestowed upon tenured faculty across the University of Colorado’s four campuses.

Engineers at CU Boulder have designed a new, rubber-like film that can leap high into the air like a grasshopper—all on its own and without needing outside intervention. Just heat it up and watch it jump! The researchers describe their achievement Jan. 18 in the journal Science Advances. They say that similar materials could one day help embody “soft robots” (those that don’t need gears or other hard components to move) to leap or lift.

Professor Daniel Schwartz of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering has become the new interim director of the Environmental Engineering Program, effective Jan. 1. Schwartz, who previously served as ChBE chair, will lead efforts to further align environmental engineering with college and campus goals in climate and sustainability and...

Biosynthesis and Mechanistic Investigation of Unusual Synthons in Natural Products Speaker: Antonio Del Rio Flores, University of California, Berkeley Host: Jerome Fox Tuesday, February 21, 2023 – 2:45pm – JSCBB A108 Seminar Abstract Natural products, often referred to as specialized metabolites, are small molecules known for their potent bioactivities relevant...

Carolyn Mills, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in the lab of Professor Danielle Tullman-Ercek.

Sophia Haussener, associate professor of the Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering École Polytechnique Fédéralede Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland, will review the state of the art of photoelectrochemical and thermochemical solar fuel processing approaches and comment on their specific challenges.

Assistant Professor Wyatt Shields of chemical and biological engineering and Ivana Yang from CU Anschutz received a five-year National Institute of General Medical Sciences/NIH/DHHS award with an anticipated funding amount of $1.7 million for “Adoptive Macrophage Transfers for Nanoparticle Delivery."

Adam Holewinski , assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, received a Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award for pre-tenure faculty during Fall Convocation for his article, “Selective Interactions between Free-Atom-like d-States in Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts and Near-Frontier Molecular Orbitals.” The annual Fall Convocation Awards and Presentations Celebrating Faculty Achievements on Oct...