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CU Boulder engineers have revamped a World War II-era process for making magnesium that requires half the energy and produces a fraction of the pollution compared to today’s leading methods. The breakthrough process, developed in the labs of Professor Alan Weimer, could vastly improve production of the strong, lightweight metal...

A multi-institutional team led by NREL, including new ChBE faculty member Aaron Holder (second from left), discovered a way to create new alloys that could form the basis of next-generation semiconductors. The NREL team includes (from left) Stephan Lany, Holder, Paul Ndione and Andriy Zakutayev. Photo courtesy NREL. A multi-institutional...

The CU Boulder Alumni Association has named Professor and Dean Emeritus Robert H. Davis a 2017 Robert L. Stearns Alumni Award winner. Davis joined the chemical engineering faculty in 1983 and served as dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science from 2002-17. The Stearns Award was initiated in...

CU Boulder’s Research & Innovation Office has named Professor Chris Bowman as one of two 2017 Distinguished Research Lectureship honorees. Bowman was nominated by his peers and chosen unanimously by a faculty panel. He will receive a $2,000 stipend and will present a lecture in fall 2017 or spring 2018...

Nearly 200 students earned degrees from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in a graduation ceremony May 12, 2017. The degree recipients included eight PhD candidates, eight master’s degree candidates and more than 160 bachelor’s degree candidates. Three graduates from the Materials Science & Engineering Program also were recognized...

Chemical and biological engineering major and student-athlete Maddie DeWinter has been featured on the Pac-12 and Chevron’s #HumanEnergyStories. The video series highlights stories of student-athletes excelling on and off the field, with emphasis on athletes who are planning careers in science, technology, engineering and math. DeWinter is a midfielder on...

Assistant Professor Anushree Chatterjee has won a 2017 Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The program works to identify and engage junior faculty members across the United States to introduce them to Department of Defense needs and opportunities. Through funding, mentoring and industry contacts, the...

Senior Hashim Al Hajji recently won first place in a Toastmasters International contest. Toastmasters International is a nonprofit organization that helps members improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills. Al Hajji won the table topics contest, a competition for unprepared speeches, in the local district covering the Boulder area...

The team included, from left, Trevor Goldman, Toni Gossett, Javier Lopez, TJ Scherping, Victor Bader, Daniel Tillema and Suzie Guo, as well as (not pictured) Atheer Alqatari, Tanner Bobak, Matt Burley, Adam Cronce, Katie Oswalt, Cathryn Toomey, and Aaron Wesche. CU Boulder students won the regional Chem-E-Car competition on April...