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Six chemical and biological engineering students earn major NSF fellowships

April 5, 2024

Five chemical and biological engineering graduate students and one ChBE undergraduate student have received 2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, a prestigious award that recognizes and supports outstanding students in a wide variety of science-related disciplines.

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CU Boulder researchers tackle HIV-related cognitive decline

March 5, 2024

Assistant Professors Kayla Sprenger and Laurel Hind, of CU Boulder’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, are on a collaborative mission to explore solutions for mitigating cognitive decline in individuals living with HIV. This decline can be caused by both the virus itself and the antiretroviral (ARV) drugs used to treat it.

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Kayla Sprenger awarded RIO's Outstanding Partner Award

Oct. 19, 2023

Assistant Professor Kayla Sprenger has been honored with the 2023 Outstanding Partner Award from CU Boulder's Research & Innovation Office (RIO). The RIO Outstanding Partner Award is an annual honor presented to a campus employee who embodies a deep commitment to partnership and collaboration with RIO. It is conferred upon...

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Two ChBE professors selected for prestigious AICHE “35 Under 35” award

Oct. 10, 2023

Assistant Professors Kayla Sprenger and Ankur Gupta were selected for the prestigious AICHE “35 Under 35” award.

Emily Rhodes awarded Teets Fellowship

July 19, 2023

The dean’s office of CU Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Science has chosen PhD student Emily Rhodes as the recipient of The Teets Family Endowment in Nano-Technology Graduate Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year. Established in 2002 with a generous donation from Peter Teets, The Teets Fellowship aims to...

Two chemical and biological engineering professors receive AB Nexus awards

June 12, 2023

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...

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Video: How Kayla Sprenger Uses Computational Tools in Energy and Health Research

March 28, 2023

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Faculty collaboration earns $2M NSF award for post-consumer plastic waste research

Oct. 25, 2021

The proliferation of plastic products has created an environmental challenge: what should be done with unusable, discarded plastic waste that can harm the environment? Faculty from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering are working on a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project, Hydrogenolysis for Upcycling of Polyesters and Mixed Plastics, to address this serious environmental issue.

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Alumni Webinar Series: A Seemingly Unstoppable Virus: Can Humanity Ever Overcome HIV?

Oct. 8, 2021

No universal vaccines exist for infectious diseases like HIV and influenza, largely due to the high frequency with which the pathogens that cause these diseases acquire mutations in their surface proteins. Hear from Assistant Professor Kayla Sprenger as she describes our efforts to address this challenge for HIV using a variety of computational methods that include homology modeling, molecular simulations, mathematical modeling, and machine learning.