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We are thrilled to welcome new ChBE office manager Liz Eckstein, an operations professional with more than 15 years of experience in the field. Liz most recently spent five years as the finance manager for the Colorado Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, a one million-member global environmental organization. Prior to...

Assistant Professor Anushree Chatterjee's research focuses on adopting integrated computational, systems and synthetic biology approaches to investigate fundamental, biotechnological and medically relevant issues including understanding the molecular mechanisms responsible for antibiotic and antiviral resistance, rational design of “next-generation smart antimicrobials,” and construction of synthetic genetic devices for a variety of...

The result of a unique partnership between CU alum Pete Balsells, the University of Colorado Boulder, and the government of Catalonia, Spain, the Balsells Graduate Fellowship Program brings outstanding students from Catalonia to Boulder to pursue master’s and doctoral degrees. This program funds the students’ education and has enriched both...

How can we interface proteins with polymers to better deliver drugs to diseased tissues? Can protein properties be rationally altered to produce valuable compounds such as biofuels? How can we better detect enzymes involved in, and thereby target and combat, diseases? “Answers to these questions lie in understanding the fundamental...

Staci Van Norman, a graduate student in the Weimer group, won third prize at the Particle Technology Forum poster session at the AIChE National Conference for her poster titled “Thin Film, Big Difference – Atomic Layer Deposition Functionalized Oxide and Polymer Particles."

Aaron Palumbo, a graduate student in the Weimer group, won second prize in the Sustainability and Sustainable Biorefineries poster session at the 2012 AIChE National Conference for his poster titled “Co-utilization of Methane in Steam-biomass Gasification using Concentrated Solar Energy."

Congratulations to junior Saikripa Radhakrishnan, who won the 2012-13 Genentech Outstanding Student Award. This award includes both a cash prize and an optional summer internship. No stranger to awards, Sai has also been the recipient of a Goldwater Scholarship . Sai has been conducting undergrad research in the labs of...

Professor Chris Bowman was one of six University of Colorado faculty members to be named a Distinguished Professor, the most prestigious honor for faculty at the university. Each year, the recognition goes to faculty members who demonstrate exemplary performance in research or creative work, a record of excellence in classroom...

Congratulations to Doug Gin, who was named a 2013 Ind. & Eng. (I&EC) Division Fellow by the American Chemical Society.

Chemical and Biological Engineering faculty received $400,000 in total funding from the Department of Education for new Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) on the topic of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. Leading the department efforts were Al Weimer and Chris Bowman.